Month July 2019

What would be considered a ‘clinical best-practice guideline’ in this new personalized healthcare world?  Would they exist? Personalized medicine is a growing area of healthcare where specific diagnostic tests are carried out to identify biological markers to diagnose, prevent, and treat disease. It moves from a “one size fits all” approach to a personalized approach. … Continue reading Personalized Medicine →

Hello Everyone and Welcome to my blog for this week. Week 10 (Future Direction) My blog this week will explore… Read more Future Direction: Nursing Informatics

What if we could understand health and complex diseases BEFORE they occurred using personalized genomics, informatics, and biology to create a healthcare system that focused on prevention (Snyderman, 2012)?  This outlook on health is the concept best described as “personalized medicine/healthcare”.  The understandings from science are leading the way in changing our thinking about diseases […]

Activity #2 Using the website Social Searcher (2019), the phrase “Medical assistance in dying” was analyzed for Sentiment on 11 different social media platforms from July 2016 to July 2019.  The initial lack of discussion using this term surprised me, as MAID became legal in Canada in 2016 (Dying with Dignity Canada, 2019).  The above […]

Activity #2 Using the website Social Searcher (2019), the phrase “Medical assistance in dying” was analyzed for Sentiment on 11 different social media platforms from July 2016 to July 2019.  The initial lack of discussion using this term surprised me, as MAID became legal in Canada in 2016 (Dying with Dignity Canada, 2019).  The above […]

This week I will recreate College of Nurses of Ontario [CNO] specific to informatics in nursing. These professional standards contains content from the modules in the course Informatics in Nursing. Accountability Sharing nursing informatics knowledge and expertise with clientsSeeking assistance appropriately with nursing informatics technology“Ensuring practice is consistent with CNO’s standards of practice and guidelines … Continue reading Professional Standards – Informatics

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This week in my blog I will be talking about professionalism in nursing which surrounds the aspects of social media. There was a case scenario in 2010 when a nursing student named Doyle Byrnes was removed from her nursing program due to uploading a picture of herself and a human placenta on Facebook. Doyle Byrnes … Continue reading Case of Doyle Byrnes

Hello Everyone Welcome to my blog this week on professionalism. For this week’s blog, I watch a video on professionalism.… Read more Professionalism