Health informatics

As leaders in healthcare industry, master’s prepared nurses maintain many roles when delivering care to patents. Master’s prepared nurses are equipped with appropriate knowledge and skills from a role as an advanced nurse practitioner providing care in an acute setting or a nurse educator teaching new nurses or graduate nurse skills and knowledge. These roles contain an aspect of project management. According to Stanley (2016), the purpose of project management is to meet a requirement by…

For nursing home administrators, a license is need, but for other health administration jobs a license may only be need for specific jobs in specific states (BLS 2015.) The American Health Information Management Association also offers a certification as a Registered Health Information Administrator, which is another step forward for a healthcare administrator (AHIMA 2017.) Another important aspect of starting the journey…

coordinate health care in culturally and ethnically diverse populations within areas of specialization. As an advanced practice nurse, I have clinical knowledge in cardiology, internal and sleep medicine, which permits me to render medical services to a diverse adult patient population. However, I have functioned in a patient population that typically has access to medical insurance. As a master’s graduate student at UAMS, I have been exposed to a diverse patient population with health care…

transform U.S. health system by emphasizing the six aims of improvement for the hospital setting. These six aims are safety, teamwork and collaboration, patient centered care, evidence based practice, quality improvement, and informatics (Cherry and Jacob, 2014). Safety can be implemented through minimizing risks factors. For example, patient with fall risk can be on eye sight and provide to wear a special yellow sock that grips better. Teamwork and collaboration focuses coordination among…

practice regardless specialty or setting. Therefore, the steps included in this method are essential for the adequate patient care and delineated by assessment, diagnosis, plan, implementation, and evaluation. Conversely, DIKW model in nursing informatics describes four terms mirroring the nursing process outlined by Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Let us consider the assessment which reflects the collection and organizing of data related to one's condition; for example, while…

electronic health records (EHRs). According to Zhang, Youngblood, Murphy, Ramsay, and Xiao (2012), redundant documentation of data can be characterized as same-data and correlated data. The authors referred to same-data as duplicated or replicated data and correlated data as derivative or supplemental data. This can be very frustrating for both the nurses and the patients, but especially the patients who have to answer the same question several times from multiple health care providers.…

In today's society we have the use for technology is different aspects of our lives. We use technology in our personal life, as well as for our careers. Most industries use technology as a way to run their business in a professional and proficient manner. Today I researched on what impact technology has for Medical Coding and Billing. Medical billing process has changed a lot over the years. Before, billing was a laborious procedure and bills had to be submitted through email. Whereas,…

Exposure charts are very important in the radiology field. They provide consistency in the quality of image production (Carlton, Richard R., Arlene McKenna. Adler, and Eugene D. Frank, 2006). Each site has preprogrammed control consoles for each exposure. However, although these are preset, these are just a suggested starting point. The data is collected through different patients acquiring the same exam. For example, I collected data on every foot exam. So for every foot exam, I grabbed…

Electronic Health Record (EHR) can definitely transform the way care is delivered to a patient. As more healthcare facilities, including hospitals and private practices, move towards the use of EHR, the benefits will increase to both patients and practitioners. It is much easier to retrieve or track patient specific medical information using EHR than to use paper records. Many paper records are written in illegible handwriting and missing different types of information. One study showed…

Plans” and, as of 2006, “Part D”. In 1997, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), provided coverage and care to an estimated eleven million children who came from families that were uninsured but also made too much income to qualify for Medicaid. In 2010 the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was created as a private insurance plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace; giving ways of better providing, designing, paying for, and delivering health care. The Joint Commission (TJC), was founded…