Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to:

communicate your understanding of the importance of quality information in everyday nursing practice;

discuss the roles and responsibilities of a Nursing Information Expert; and

articulate how the professional nurse uses information/data in every day practice to improve outcomes.

Directions

Select your interviewee and schedule an interview.

This individual must be a Registered Nurse. Job titles of RNs who may be considered include, but are not limited to, Nursing Clinical Information Manager; Super User, Director/Manger Clinical Education; Chief Information Officer; Quality Assurance or Performance Improvement Nurse; Nurse Informaticist; Telenursing Specialist; Nurse Abstractor; Case Manager; Compliance Nurse.

If you have any concerns about whether the RN is suitable for this assignment, contact your instructor BEFORE you schedule the interview.

Review all questions (areas of inquiry) on the Interview Form PRIOR to conducting the interview. You may print the form and take it with you to the interview.

Note there are five required questions to ask the RN.

Note there are four optional questions. You need to select only one of these to ask the RN.

Note there are two follow-up questions that must be answered by you.

Prior to conducting your interview, review two scholarly resources. These resources should guide your understanding of the RN's role and responsibilities or make you more knowledgeable about GIGO, Interprofessional Communication, or other key concepts in the questions that you may not fully understand.

For example, if your interviewee is a telenurse, you would want to review information on this specialty. If you do not know what GIGO means, look it up.

Conduct your interview. The length of your interview will vary but should not exceed one hour.

Submit the completed interview form prior to the deadline outlined above.

Please NO PLAGIARISM this assginment goes through turn it in. Also i will attach the form as well as the guidelines.

Interview with a Nursing Information Expert

Interviewer Form

Directions: After completing your interview, you must use this form to submit your assignment to the Dropbox.You may usethe form to capture information as you conduct your interview, or fill it in later. The form is expandable and will enlarge the textbox to accommodate your answers.

Do not rely only on this form for everything you must include! Please look in Course Resources for specific instructionsin the

Guidelines for this assignment.

Criteria Fill in the answers in this column.

Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, officialjob title of interviewee that includes the type of nursing information roleand the date the interview was conducted.

Types of nursing information expert may be considered include, but are not limited to, Nursing Clinical Information Manager; Super User, Director/Manger Clinical Education; Chief Information Officer; Quality Assurance or Performance Improvement Nurse; Nurse Informaticist; Telenursing Specialist; Nurse Abstractor; Case Manager; Compliance Nurse.

Required Questions

(answer EVERY question in this section)

1. Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.

2. Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.

3. What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?

4. Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility.

5. What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high quality information/data and how is that information utilized?

Optional Questions

(answer only ONE question from the choices below)

1. Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not "understand the needs of nurses/nursing?"

2. Please share an example of how garbage in/garbage out (GIGO) impacted a decision related to your information/data collection.

3. Please give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role.

4. Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you?

Follow-up Questions

(Answer all of these. Please do not ask them during the interview.

Instead, reflect and answer them afterwards.)

1. How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.

2. Resources:

Scholarly articles or texts that were used prior to the interview to familiar. Complete in APA format. (The references should be within the last five years).

Clearly states how each resource helped prepare for the interview.