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Nursing Informatics and Health Care Technology in Relation to your Quality Im-provement Project
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Directions: The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the various information and communication technology tools that can be used when caring for patients, communities, and populations.
Healthcare technology and nursing informatics play an essential role in improving patient outcomes, enhancing safety, and supporting evidence-based practice. For this assignment, you will examine how nursing informatics and healthcare technology can support the implementation, evaluation, and sustainability of your Quality Improvement project.Using your approved QI project as the foundation, address the following:
1. Introduction
Briefly describe your QI project, including the identified problem, target population, and proposed intervention.
Explain why technology or informatics is important to the success of your project or how could it help to enrich your project?
2. Healthcare Technology and Informatics
Identify two to three healthcare technologies or informatics tools that could support your QI project.
Explain how each technology would improve patient care within your project.
3. Technology and Quality Improvement
Discuss how the selected technologies will assist with implementing your QI intervention.
Explain how technology can be used to collect data to evaluate the effectiveness of your project.
Describe how the technology supports continuous quality improvement.
4. Impact on Patient Care
Describe two examples of how healthcare technology would influence clinical decision-making or require modifications to the patient's plan of care within your QI project.
Explain how technology can improve patient safety, patient engagement, or health outcomes.
5. Nursing Leadership and Technology
Discuss the importance of bedside nurses participating in the selection and evaluation of healthcare technologies.
Explain how nurse involvement contributes to sustained quality improvement.
6. Challenges and Ethical Considerations
Identify one or two potential barriers to implementing the selected technology (resistance to change, cost, cybersecurity etc.),
Discuss strategies to overcome these barriers while maintaining patient privacy.
You must support your evidence with APA in-text citations.
2-3 pages excluding title and reference page
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QI Project: implement a nurse-led transitional care program for heart failure patients to reduce 30-day readmissions, combining teach-back discharge education, a 48-hour post-discharge phone call, and a 7-day follow-up visit led by a unit nurse navigator.