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[Solved] Next Step Toward Changes

  • Develop a presentation, augmented by 12-15 slides, for administrative leaders and stakeholders that outlines your plan to develop or enhance a culture of quality and safety within your organization or practice setting WITH DETAILED SPEAKER NOTE
    Introduction

  • As a nurse leader, you will be expected to communicate effectively with leaders and stakeholders at all levels in an organization in a variety of ways, depending on your purpose and your audience. Being able to deliver effective presentations is one important skill you will likely be called upon to use often.
    This assessment provides an opportunity to hone your presentation skills and enlist the support of stakeholder groups who will be key to achieving desired changes in the organization and developing or enhancing a culture of quality and safety.
    This assessment is based on the work you have completed in the previous three assessments.
    Preparation
    The report you completed in the previous assessment has convinced the executive leadership team of the benefits to the organization of taking the next step toward changes aimed at improving outcomes and cultivating a culture of quality and safety. You have been asked to follow up your report with a presentation to administrative leaders and stakeholders that outlines your plan to develop or enhance the organization’s culture of quality and safety. A number of key stakeholders will be unable to attend your presentation for a variety of reasons, so you have decided to provide those individuals with a video recording of the presentation.
    You have the option of using Kaltura Media or another technology of your choice to record your presentation.
    If you decide to use Kaltura, you are encouraged to:

    • Install and test your recording hardware (if you have not already done so), using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer.
    • Practice using your recording hardware to ensure adequate audio and video quality.
    • Refer to the Using Kaltura tutorial for directions on recording and uploading your video in the courseroom.
    • Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services to request accommodations.
      Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Supportpage.
      As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
    • How might you engage stakeholders to help develop, implement, and sustain a vision to actually change and improve patient outcomes?
    • What arguments might be most effective in obtaining agreement and support?
    • What recommendations would you make to implement a proposed plan for change?
    • Requirements
      Developing the Presentation
    • Summarize the key aspects of a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
    • Identify existing organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affecting quality and safety.
    • Identify current outcome measures related to quality and safety.
    • Explain the steps needed to achieve improved outcomes.
    • Create a future vision of your organization’s potential to develop and sustain a culture of quality and safety and the nurse leader’s role in developing that potential.
    • Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services to request accommodations.
      Communication and Supporting Evidence
    • Argue persuasively to obtain agreement with, and support for, a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
    • Support your main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
    • Additional Requirements
    • Your slide deck should consist of 12–15 slides, including a title slide and a references slide. 
      • List your sources on the references slide at the end of your presentation.
      • Use of a small font is permitted to fit all 8 references on a single slide.
    • Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective. 
      • Summarize the key aspects of a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
    • Competency 2: Determine how outcome measures promote quality and safety processes within an organization. 
      • Identify current outcome measures related to quality and safety.
    • Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations. 
      • Identify existing organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affecting quality and safety.
    • Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader’s role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety. 
      • Explain the steps needed to achieve improved outcomes.
      • Create a future vision of an organization’s potential to develop and sustain a culture of quality and safety and the nurse leader’s role developing that potential.
    • Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards. 
      • Argue persuasively to obtain agreement with, and support from, administrative leaders and stakeholders in an organization for a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
      • Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

[Solved] Limit 140 Characters Including

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[Solved] Limit 140 Characters Including

 

For this, you will be asked to generate posts on social media as it is used by businesses.

Your current employer is interested in using various social media to increase the company/organization’s profile in the area. The company/organization has also recently introduced a new product or service that your boss wants the general public to know about. You have been asked to create the initial contact to the public on both Facebook and Twitter.

  1. Select a product or service that is appropriate either for your current job or for the career you intend to have.
  2. Create two Facebook posts of up 100 words each announcing the product/service to the company’s Facebook audience and two tweets (limit 140 characters including spaces) for the company’s Twitter audience announcing the new product or service. These should be written as if they will be posted to social media, but should be submitted as a Word document.
  3. Keep in mind the conventions of social media. Grammar and spelling are critically important, as is maintaining professionalism while still being fun and welcoming to customers or clients.
  4. Write a 2-3 paragraph reflection on how you approached these posts and how writing social media posts for a professional entity like a business differs from your personal use of social media.

[Solved] Week 6 Correlations Exercises

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[Solved] Week 6 Correlations Exercises

 (Need someone who can complete this in 24 hours)

Answer the following questions using the Week 6 Correlations Exercises SPSS Output provided in this week’s Learning Resources.

  1. What is the strongest correlation in the matrix? (Provide the correlation value and the names of variables)
  2. What is the weakest correlation in the matrix? (Provide the correlation value and the names of variables)
  3. How many original correlations are present on the matrix?
  4. What does the entry of 1.00 indicate on the diagonal of the matrix?
  5. Indicate the strength and direction of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and physical health component subscale.
  6. Which variable is most strongly correlated with BMI? What is the correlational coefficient? What is the sample size for this relationship?
  7. What is the mean and standard deviation for BMI and doctor visits?
  8. What is the mean and standard deviation for weight and BMI?
  9. Describe the strength and direction of the relationship between weight and BMI.
  10. Describe the scatterplot. What information does it provide to a researcher?

[Solved] 1 Point Per Response

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[Solved] 1 Point Per Response

 

The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence and its relevance for advanced practice nurse.

Submission Instructions:

  • Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.  Your initial post is worth 8 points.
  • You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.) 
  • All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.
  • Please post your initial response by 11:59 PM ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.
  • You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date. 

[Solved] Many Collaborative Efforts Like

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[Solved] Many Collaborative Efforts Like

 

Consider your experiences at work, school, and in your personal life. You have, at some point, been asked to work with a group to achieve a particular goal. It might have been a group research project, a new marketing plan, a learning plan, a schedule to roll out new technology, planning a wedding, or even planning and creating a large family meal. In many collaborative efforts like these, there are disagreements. Select one collaborative experience from your past that involved some disagreements or significant differences of opinion.

Describe the project that you were working on, including the people involved.

  1. Explain the problem that you encountered with the group. How was that problem overcome? What was the end result of encountering and dealing with that problem?
  2. What do you think was the cause of the problem? How much of the problem came from miscommunication, either from you or from other people involved? What did you do to help resolve the problem?
  3. If you were able to relive that experience, how would you change the way that you approached the encountered problem? How would you communicate differently?
  4. How, ultimately, was the conflict resolved?

[Solved] Detailed Report Addressing Outcome

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[Solved] Detailed Report Addressing Outcome

  • Draft a 6-page report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities for the executive leadership team or applicable stakeholder group.
    Introduction
    Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
    As a nurse leader, you may be called upon to submit a detailed report to your executive leadership team and key stakeholders that describes a quality or safety problem and its effects on outcomes, fully supported by relevant and credible data.
    This assessment provides an opportunity to draft such a report in which you can call attention to quality and safety issues and opportunities, effectively support your position, and lay out a plan for change.
    This assessment is based on the executive summary you prepared in the previous assessment.
    Preparation
    Your executive summary captured the attention and interest of the executive leadership team, who have asked you to provide them with a detailed report addressing outcome measures and performance issues or opportunities, including a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured.
    Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Supportpage.
    As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

    • How might you engage stakeholders to help develop, implement, and sustain a vision to actually change and improve patient outcomes?
    • What arguments might be most effective in obtaining agreement and support?
    • What recommendations would you make to implement a proposed plan for change?
    • The following resources are required to complete the assessment.

[Solved] Least Two Response Posts

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[Solved] Least Two Response Posts

2-1 Discussion: Objectivity and Bias in the Social Sciences (50 Points)Thus far, you have learned about the basics of the scientific method. An important principle is that scientific inquiry should be free from biases, emotions, and value judgments. This includes methods, results, theories, and social scientists themselves. But there is always a human element in science that can affect objectivity. Reflect on what you learned from the module resources and respond to the following prompts. You will refer to your advertisements when participating in the discussion.

Create one initial post and follow up with at least two response posts.

For your initial post, address the following:

  1. What might be the consequences (positive and/or negative) of a social scientist’s emotions or biases showing up in their research?
  2. Examine your four advertisements. How are potential biases represented in each of your ads? Think about the biases of the advertiser (creator of the ads) and the target audience (viewers of the ads). If you do not think bias is present, explain why and provide examples from your ads to support your point.
    1. In a few sentences, summarize the presence of potential biases in your advertisements.
    2. Please include the links to your advertisements in your post so your peers can view them.

For your response posts, address the following:

  1. In this week’s resources, you learned about several specific strategies that you can use to manage your biases. How might you apply some of those strategies to processing media like the advertisements your peers shared?

Remember, this assignment is graded on the quality of your initial post and at least two response posts to your classmates. If you refer to any sources, be sure to include an attribution (or citation) to the resource.

To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.

[Solved] Although Adopting Data Warehousing

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[Solved] Although Adopting Data Warehousing

According to Khristich (2022), an expert in health-tech projects and a CTO at Tateeda Global, by 2023, it is expected that the healthcare industry will reach its plateau with high-technology breakthrough discoveries and innovations. The future trends in healthcare technology open mind-blowing advanced healthcare tools and strategic transformation in the field of medicine while boosting the quality and affordability of healthcare services in preventing diseases instead of treating them at advanced stages. With the help of the internet, integrated medical technologies are transforming how hospitals, healthcare institutions, and providers communicate with each other while effectively connecting with their patients. The medical Internet of Things (IoT) is a processing field that implements wearable devices, monitors, and integrated applications that cater to patients’ needs. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is implemented in conjunction with medical IoT, with machine learning that has an enhanced version of the traditional medical devices.

  To improve the efficiency and quality of surgical care treatment in our department, Eisenhower Health Hospital introduced the Davinci Robotic Surgical Systems (RSS). A present healthcare technology trend in minimally invasive surgical procedures with minimal incision size, blood loss, and post-surgical pain. In the improvement of Conventional Laparoscopic Surgery (CLS), the reduction of natural tremors and improved surgical accuracy and vision were observed with its application. The technical advantages mentioned result in enhanced clinical outcomes, reduced postoperative complications, and shortened length of patient’s postoperative hospitalization (Kao et al., 2022). Standard procedures involved in applying the Davinci Robotic Systems are cardiac, colorectal, gynecologic, head and neck, thoracic, urology, gallbladder removal, hysterectomy, and prostatectomy surgeries. It is widely used for the surgical prevention and treatment of patients with cancer. It has built-in 3D imaging and endo-wrist technology to precisely detect nerve bundles. With its application, surgeons can undertake complex procedures that are impossible to perform with other surgical techniques.

  On the contrary, the Advanced Urology Institute (2021) highlighted the disadvantages of robot-assisted surgery. Mechanical failure is unavoidable; for instance, system components such as a camera, robotic tower, arms, binocular lenses, and instruments can fail. In other cases, the electric current in the robotic instrument can malfunction, which causes the robotic arm to be misapplied to the surrounding tissues, resulting in accidental burn injuries. Moreover, robot-assisted surgery can contribute to nerve palsies due to lengthy surgical procedure that requires body positioning intended for the procedure, which also can cause direct nerve compression. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to analyze medical device reports (MDRs) related to robotically assisted surgical devices. The FDA receives mandatory reports from patients, caregivers, consumers, and healthcare professionals. Monitoring the safety and effectiveness of this medical device relies on these sources. The FDA recommends training and education to help enhance patient safety with its application (FDA, 2022). Furthermore, surgical robots come with complex systems with various points of vulnerability, and there have been traces of successful cyberattacks from their software applications. Hackers’ main target is patient health information, creating a financial incentive for attackers seeking patient data. Some robotic systems have advanced imaging features with telemonitoring and telepresence capabilities to facilitate intraoperative consultations. This integration of data sources, hardware, and software is composed of vulnerable material that enables an attack that could scale to multiple robots simultaneously (Gordon et al., 2022).

 The healthcare technology trend that is believed to have the most significant impact on healthcare is the technology behind telemedicine, which did not just appear in response to the pandemic, for we have already had this for years. Yet, the previous COVID outbreak pushed this healthcare trend forward and is expected to enhance future medicine. Telehealth is the medium of communication technologies such as computers, mobile phones, and tablets to facilitate the delivery of healthcare services, an essential component of a comprehensive healthcare approach that improves the patient experience. Telemedicine enhances the continuity of patient care with constant communication between patients and their healthcare providers, which helps reduced delays or missed appointments. According to the University of Central Florida (2022), patients nowadays are investing in their health and considering technology as an opportunity to take charge of their mental and physical well-being. Telehealth is efficient, convenient, and beneficial for cost-effective virtual check-ups, thus resulting in a less expensive bill to patients while maintaining quality care. In addition, this trend is suitable for physicians and their patients, paving the way for those who feel the stigma around therapy to those who seek psychiatric help more privately. This trend offers expanded healthcare access, including medically vulnerable people without transportation. Although adopting data warehousing increases security concerns in managing big data in telehealth. Still, with intelligent telehealth decision support, big data analytics are indispensable technology that addresses the problem of processing, storing, and analyzing vast information sources. Data anonymization is one way to protect the patient’s identity. It must draft privacy laws to ensure patient privacy. For telehealth, it is suggested to have evidence-based solid decisions on many data sources when choosing optimum patient treatments (Wainstein, 2017). U.S. healthcare may go virtual in the years to come; rather than being skeptical, we must fully embrace innovation to improve the agility and efficiency of our providers in the future (Masschallenge, 2022).

                                                                                   References:

Advanced Urology Institute. (2021). Advantages and Disadvantages of Robotic Technology in Urology.

https://www.advancedurologyinstitute.com/advantages-disadvantages-robotic-technology-urology/Links to an external site.

Food and Drug Administration. (2022). Computer-Assisted Surgical Systems.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/surgery-devices/computer-assisted-surgical-systemsLinks to an external site.

Gordon, W., Ikoma, N., Lyu, H., Jackson, G., Landman, A. (2022). Protecting Procedural Care-Cybersecurity Considerations for Robotic Surgery.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-022-00693-8Links to an external site.

Kao, H., Yang, Y., Wu, Y. (2022). When Does DaVinci Robotic Surgical Systems Come into Play?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8841676/Links to an external site.

Khristich, S. (2022). 17 Major Healthcare Technology Trends of 2023.

https://tateeda.com/blog/healthcare-technology-trendsLinks to an external site.

Masschallenge. (2022). Rising Trends in Digital Health:5 Technologies That will Define the Future of Healthcare.

https://masschallenge.org/articles/digital-health-trends/Links to an external site.

University of Central Florida. (2022). 2022 Healthcare Industry Trend that Will Make a Difference.

https://www.ucf.edu/online/healthcare/news/healthcare-industry-trends/Links to an external site.

Wainstein, L. (2017).  Managing Telehealth’s Big Data with Data Warehousing.

https://southwesttrc.org/blog/2017/managing-telehealth-s-big-data-data-warehousingLinks to an external site.

[Solved] Module Resource Example Advertisement

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[Solved] Module Resource Example Advertisement

2-2 Activity: Individual Representation in Advertisements (80 Points)Overview

In this module, you learned about bias and objectivity. You will apply that knowledge to the analysis of your advertisements. For this activity, you will focus on making objective observations about the people in your advertisements. This will form the foundation of your project and help you to examine additional elements in your advertisements in future modules.

Please note that you may not change your selection of advertisements after the end of Module Two.

Prompt

Use the provided Module Two Activity Template Word Document to complete this assignment. You should first review the module resource Example Advertisement Analysis Word Document, which will help you distinguish between objective and subjective observations. Next, look closely at your four advertisements and identify the people present in the ads. Then, make objective observations about them and their actions. Finally, discuss the impact of bias on both social scientists and consumers.

You are not required to answer each question below the rubric criteria but may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

  • Describe how individuals are presented in all of your advertisements.
    • Your analysis is limited to each person in your ads. You are not examining settings, logos, taglines, mood/tone, or any other element of the ads. Objectively describe the people. What characteristics can you objectively observe using your senses?
    • In this step, do not make interpretations or judgments about the individuals.
  • Describe the actions being taken by the individuals in all of your advertisements.
    • Your analysis is still limited to each person in your ads, but now objectively describe what they are doing. What behaviors can you objectively observe using your senses?
    • In this step, do not make interpretations or judgments about the individuals’ behaviors.
  • Explain whether social scientists can be truly objective when conducting research.
    • Consider this week’s discussion, the module resources, and your analysis of the people in your advertisements. Do you think social scientists can be genuinely objective when doing research? Explain why or why not. Support your argument with evidence such as examples or quotes.
  • Discuss how consumer biases may impact the interpretation of your advertisements.
    • How might the beliefs, assumptions, and/or values of various consumers influence how they perceive your four advertisements? How could their own biases lead them to interpret your advertisements differently than you?

Guidelines for Submission

Submit the Module Two Activity Template. While references are not required, if you reference sources in your responses, they should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

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[Solved] ” Digital Divide ”

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[Solved] ” Digital Divide ”

Two general technology trends in my workplace are that EHRs and the use of technology are getting increasingly ingrained in the workflow, with increasingly complex technology. And also that my clients are utilizing apps and their smartphones as part of their care.

  I recently changed agencies and went from an agency that used a pretty non-sophisticated Ehr called AURA to an agency that uses a complex EHR called EPIC. When I use the terms sophisticated vs complex to compare these EHRs, I am basing these terms on capabilities. AURA seemed able to run certain reports and get information about what was happening with caseloads. And that seemed to help management keep on top of remote workers, for instance, leadership could run a report about which Care Coordinator had a treatment plan due. But it did not seem to have capabilities for looking at overall trends for health in specific patients and caseloads.

Epic is awesome, however. I was initially troubled by my first training which followed me through an office visit that seemed guided by the system rather than the needs of the patient. I asked the informatics team for more personalized training that would involve using the system for patient care, as it would likely unfold during my workflow, and they said OK, and I got great training.

 Epic is very customizable. Epic has great communication abilities (you can see notes on the patient from every provider in the system). Epic has CDS or clinical decision support (McGonigle and Mastrian, 2022)  to give suggestions for treatment based on what is entered into the system. Epic can help organize your workflow so you, as a nurse, do not forget anything you are supposed to do for your patient.

So overall,  the complexity and ability to communicate and provide more communication between different caregivers is the trend I see. In discussion with the informatics nurse trainer and my provider, what is intended next for our facility is communication between Smart devices and the EHr, so that when vital signs are taken, they will be automatically entered into the EHr at the point of care by the devices. So there will be more of a move in our agency to Smart devices and the greater integration of artificial intelligence into the Her and items that the EHr is connected to.

A danger inherent in an Internet of Things type approach to entering data into an EHr, such as having vital signs or telemetry hooked up to the EHr and bypassing nurse input is exemplified by a case scenario in our text McGonigle and Mastrian (2022). In this scenario, a young mother with cardiac issues is left to rest after what the nurse and resident decided were several false alarms, and her monitoring equipment was turned off to silence the alarm. In this scenario, the patient died because a relationship with the technology replaced sound nursing care and judgment, AND the technology was also silenced. We need to be aware that competency with our technology is there to support the care we give individuals and not make the mistake of relying on technology alone.

McGonigle and Mastrian (2022) discuss a culture of safety and how use of an EHr can do things to contribute to safety, such as by decreasing medication errors. One such way of doing this is by having medications packaged with RFID tags or bar codes to ensure the correct administration of meds. The text describes a scenario where a check system can be put in place to scan the nurse’s ID, the patient’s ID, and the patient’s medications to ensure everything is correct. However, the nurse is still responsible to use their judgment. I worked at a psych hospital a few years ago where the system had 20mg (pink) Zyprexa tablets bar coded and dispensed as 5 mg. Fortunately I was looking for yellow, and the pink pill color immediately had me calling the pharmacy to check. And in this particular case the pyxis was just loaded, so the potential adverse event never reached any patients.

So the danger with increased use of and reliance on technology is that nurses can forget their part and not use the technology as a tool, but rather rely on it to the detriment of a patient. And a nurse can overcome this detriment by being aware and remembering the technology is a tool, and not total care.

Another trend is increased patient use of the internet and health apps. I work in addiction medicine and several of my patients use a health app that can remind them of coping skills and strategies to avoid the use of substances. Skiba (2017) discusses how 40% of patients use these types of apps to help with chronic disease and to manage things like stress and weight. Skiba (2017) also discusses how many people use social media and/or apps to discuss their medical experiences and evaluate and find providers, and ask questions related to their medical problems. These writers state that since these types of apps are changing the way people get their healthcare information, that as caregivers, we should help guide and educate people to evaluate these apps for accuracy, reliability, privacy, security, and ease of use.

 A danger in using and relying on Internet technology and apps is that people can rely on information from the internet that is fallible. A prime example of this is the anti-vax movement and the momentum that one discredited study about a relationship between a measles vaccine and autism continues to have due to its supporters talking about it online (Barrett, 2018). Per McGonigle and Mastrian (2022)  google is taking steps to remedy this by fact-checking medical information and making sure that scientifically vetted information will appear first in search results.

Another danger described by McGonigle and Mastrian (2022) is the ”digital divide.” Many people cannot afford smartphones and/or do not have access to medical information online. McGonigle and Mastrian (2022) describe some initiatives to remedy this, such as the “Connect-ED” initiative designed to give more people access to the Internet. There is also the e-health initiative which is designed to help promote the use of technology for health information and help individual patients understand their health needs.

I think in the future, the most exciting move for technology and healthcare will be in the direction of the internet of things and wearable smart devices. I already have a smartwatch that monitors my BP, heart rate, and sleep patterns, it hooks up to my scale and allows me to see all this data. It is not something that hooks up to my EHR for my provider to see, but if it had that capability, I would gladly ignore the inherent privacy issues for my NP to be able to see the info, rather than me just reporting it to her. Li et al. (2021) describe a developing platform for the monitoring of women in pregnancy through wearable smart devices that can continually monitor the baby’s heart rate, and the expectant Mom’s blood sugar, vital signs, bloodwork, and other key readings. Per these writers, this will greatly increase outcomes in pregnancies and avoid complications.

This type of personalized monitoring can only have a good effect. Besides giving the provider real-time information, it will also give the patient individualized feedback that may help them take better care of themselves. Tharageswari et al. (2020) discuss the use of Smart devices for overall health monitoring and just ensuring that patients are taking good care of themselves (in general, and not just for a specific condition like pregnancy). These writers discuss a potential model for interventions if a person is not taking care of themselves. This type of monitoring can be helpful, and assist people in making wiser choices. I think as these devices get smarter and more sophisticated, and there is greater communicability between such devices and our EHrs the wealth of information about our individual health and our community’s health will be greatly increased.

Barrett, M. (2018). The malign rise of the anti-vaxxers. New Statesman, 147(5419), 17.

Li, X., Lu, Y., Fu, X., & Qi, Y. (2021). Building the Internet of Things platform for smart maternal

      healthcare services with wearable devices and cloud computing. Future Generation

      Computer Systems, 118, 282–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2021.01.016

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2022). Nursing informatics and the foundation of

      knowledge (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Skiba, D. (2017). Evaluation tools to appraise social media and mobile applications,

      Informatics, 4(3), 32–40. 

Tharageswari, K., Pandian, D. S., Raja, L., & Dhanapal, R. (2020). Monitoring Smart

      Devices for Personal Health Care Using Deep Analytics. 2020 Fourth International

      Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC), I-

       SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC), 2020 Fourth

      International Conference On, 744–747. https://doi.org/10.1109/I-Links to an external site.

      SMAC49090.2020.9243413