Nursing Concerns in Practice
Synthesize knowledge from the liberal arts and sciences and nursing science to understand global perspectives, stimulate critical thinking, and use current technologies
There are multiple ways that I was able to fulfill this particular course objective. Some of the more cutting edge developments in information technology are outside of the realm of nursing science, and are generally applied to liberal arts and sciences. However, while networking with colleagues at the clinic I was able to train and practice at, I was able to implement some of those IT developments to help further my education and inform my practice. In order to help learn about different social, cultural, and economic factors that can inform the treatment of patients, I was able to read about certain factors that impacted my patients from lower socio-economic spheres of life. Specifically, I was able to understand how their limited budgets impacted their dietary choices, as well as how their neighborhoods affected the sort of dietary resources they had at their disposal. I also learned about various cloud-based applications for analytics that can impact nursing and the medical field in general. Many of these involve the deployment of cognitive computing, predictive analytics and machine learning, and can be readily utilized by research institutions and even in traditional care facilities. The administrators of my care facility had a demonstration of a cognitive computing application that they can use to compare national rates of incidences for certain conditions to local ones for our clinic. Thus, I am familiar with this technology and am in a situation in which I am impacted by its ramifications.
Harper, J. (2014). "The numerous applications of Watson Analytics." www.dataversity.net Retrieved from http://www.dataversity.net/numerous-applications-watson-analytics/
2 Make sound decisions in the use of patient information and healthcare technology to design, coordinate, manage, and evaluate nursing care for individuals, families and populations
I was able to fulfill this course objective by incorporating data from the usage of wearables with my treatment of patients. Wearable devices are getting used more and more frequently throughout numerous spheres of the health care industry (Ramsey, 2013). I was able to incorporate data from this technology when dealing with a patient who had issues of obesity. She had an odometer on her smart watch that also counted her steps. While I was treating her, I would set limits for the distance and the amount of steps I wanted her to take. I was able to access the data from this device and measure how effective those limits were, and increase them accordingly.
Ramsey, R. (2013). The impact of wearable technology in healthcare. www.wearabletechworld.com Retrieved from http://www.wearabletechworld.com/topics/wearable-tech/articles/353619-impact-wearable-technology-healthcare.htm
3 Demonstrate clinical excellence to provide caring, compassionate, and culturally appropriate patient centered care to people in a variety of settings
One of the foremost challenges that I was able to overcome that specifically applied to this course objective was to evince care and concern for patients of various races, nationalities, and ethnicities. Quite frequently, in the setting in which I administered care, I was tasked with working with patients who did not speak English as a native language. Some of these patients had a better mastery of the language than others, but there were numerous occasions in which I would attempt to communicate with patients who were fluent in some dialect of Chinese, Cambodian, Spanish, and French (Creole) and it was readily apparent that they did not understand me. I addressed this recurring problem in two ways. I learned to exaggerate my body language so that I could immediately overcome any sort of suspicion regarding my intentions and activities. I made sure that my tone of voice was always enthusiastic and nice, so that even if these patients could not understand me they would not perceive me or my intentions as any sort of threat. I always began and ended my care with a broad smile to transmit positive energy in my body language, and more or less spoke with the sort of exaggerated tones that one uses when rewarding a pet. Furthermore, another tactic I deployed to ensure the fact that I cared is that I would determine a way to communicate -- no matter how rudimentarily -- with the patient in his or her native voice. I did this to emphasize the fact that I cared about my patients -- which is a critical facet of nursing (Lachman, 2012, p. 112). I would talk to visiting family members and research the various languages online, and even make notes (after the family members had left) how...
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