Posted: February 7th, 2023
American Association of College of Nursing. (2008). The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Retrieved from: https://www.aacnnursing.org/Education-Resources/AACN-Essentials
Content:
Scenario
You are a staff nurse at Healing Spaces Hospital, and through your dedication and passion for healthcare technologies, you have been voted as the nursing delegate to sit on the Emerging Innovations Steering Committee. In preparing for your first committee meeting you have read through the last year of meeting minutes and determined what the past nursing delegate had achieved and what future goals were set for this specific role. The meeting minutes from last month show that the steering committee is currently looking at emerging communication technologies and how the hospital can leverage cost effective technological advances. In preparation for the first meeting you have created a list of best practices based on your scholarly research and create a list of action plans for leveraging these into practice.
Instructions
You have just walked into your first steering committee meeting and quickly see this committee is ready to move forward with levering technology specific to communication. As the nursing delegate, you have been tasked with creating a comparative analysis of two communication technologies and how they can be used to improve communication between healthcare teams as well as how it can influence patient outcomes. Before the next monthly committee meeting, they want you to send them a comparative analysis using a format of your choice (i.e. table) of two communication technologies that you feel best improve safety and quality healthcare. Write a comparative analysis including the following:
SOLUTION
As a nursing delegate on the Emerging Innovations Steering Committee, you can bring your knowledge on the impact of various communication technologies on safety and quality improvement to the table. You can also highlight the importance of applying safeguards and decision making support tools in patient care technologies and information systems as stated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008).
By doing so, you can ensure that the hospital implements communication technologies that not only save cost but also support a safe practice environment for patients and healthcare workers. Additionally, you can suggest conducting a thorough assessment of the hospital’s current communication systems and identifying areas that need improvement to ensure safety and quality in patient care.
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