For most health care workers, the move to electronic health information technologies is a welcome and long-anticipated event. However, this transition can be a stressful and anxiety-filled time for both nurse leaders leading the change process and for the nurses who are being transitioned to a completely new, and often unfamiliar way of gathering, storing, and retrieving data—not to mention utilizing this data to care for their patients.
Organizations and nurse leaders can minimize much of the trepidation and anxiety associated with the implementation and upgrading of these systems by providing the needed time, offering well-planned education, and making available the resources needed to transition from paper and pen charting to electronic health information systems. While implementation of these systems can be costly in time and personnel, it is clear that an educated and knowledgeable workforce will be able to help the organization to meet its stated goals of being more effective and more efficient, while providing better patient outcomes.
Professional Context
Technology is present across the continuum of care as evidenced in mobile apps that monitor babies’ bio-physical measurements, as well as telehealth that addresses patient status and health care needs, focusing on palliative care and management of chronic diseases in the home.
Scenario
As a palliative care nurse manager, you are presenting a telehealth mobile application to your team. The purpose of this technology is to enable timely and accurate assessment of your in-home patients who are presently under the care of the palliative team. A myriad chronic diseases must be monitored, including:
Congestive heart failure.
Diabetes with resulting Stages 2 and 3 non-healing ulcers.
Chronic obstructive lung disease.
Successful deployment of this new technology requires that your team be well-trained in its use. Consequently, you have decided develop training materials for a webinar, which can be used to deliver the training remotely using Web conferencing technologies.
Preparation
Your deliverables for this assignment are a slide deck to supplement your webinar and a video recording of your presentation. You may use Microsoft PowerPoint or any other suitable presentation software to create your slides. Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and reference your sources, as appropriate.
