Month May 2020

Week 1 Discussion Post Leading up to this course, knowing that it was titled, ‘Nursing Informatics’, I was curious as to what informatics meant and the role it has in nursing and healthcare. Initially, I think about analyzing data and organizing information relevant to nursing as a way to develop recommendations for future nursing practice.Continue reading “What does the word “informatics” mean to you?”

Week 2 Discussion Post The discussion this week prompts us to look ahead at planning for the upcoming scholarly paper that we will develop throughout this course. We are encouraged to choose a topic that is relevant to informatics/eHealth, nursing, as well as is of interest to us. Some brainstorming for thesis’ that I cameContinue reading “Brainstorming a thesis statement”

Before this course started, in all honesty, I didn’t know anything about informatics.  My first thought is that informatics relates to technology, beyond that I don’t know much else.  However, after this week’s module and readings, I’ve learned the word “informatics” is much more than just technology.  After doing my own research, I found an … Continue reading Informatics 101

Registering for this course, I was unsure of what nursing Informatics was really about. I would like to guess it is about using technology within Nursing. I started googling informatics in nursing, and came across this website called Nurse.com that talks about a career in nursing informatics and offers courses. This is where I found … Continue reading What does the word “informatics” Mean?