Describe your career path to your current position

After you have finished your interview, you must utilize this form to submit your assignment to Dropbox. You can use the form to collect information during your interview or fill it out later. The form is expandable, and the textbox will be enlarged to accommodate your responses. Do not rely just on this form to include everything! Please see Course Resources for specific instructions in the Assignment Guidelines. Provide initials of the RN, official job title of the interviewee that includes the type of nursing information role and the date the interview was conducted.

Types of nursing information expert may be considered, 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.

T.B. RN, BSN, MSN, CNS

Chief of Emergency Department

Date of the interview: 08/08/2017

Required Questions

(answer EVERY question in this section)

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

A graduate of Penn State with BSN in 1991, Worked for University of Pittsburg Medical Center as an RN for six years. Worked initially on a medical floor, then to Emergency Department. Moved to Louisville, KY in 1997. Graduated with MSN from the University of Louisville in 2002 with certification in Clinical Nurse Specialist. Worked for UofL research department on various research projects from 2001-2008. Nurse educator and trainer for new hires in Emergency Departments. Currently chief of Emergency Department.

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

To help nursing staff find a balance between their clinical expertise and scientific evidence; while taking into account, their culture, ethnicities, their ideas, and beliefs about their health.

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

In the ED we utilize Computerized Physician Order/Entry and Clinical decision support which helps reduce medical errors. With the ability to utilize order sets/standing orders a nurse can use quick picks to get orders completed based on ‘simple’ symptoms. For example: when a patient complains of chest pain radiating down their left arm and has jaw pain for the past 3 hours, a nurse can then enter in the ED order sets menu “CHEST PAIN, ” and the computer software gives them complete orders if need be

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

The use of “HOLD” option when a patient is being held in the ER but is admitted to inpatient in the hospital. When we go on diversion in critical care areas or entire hospital diversion we hold patients in our ED.

We have a Safety Task Force that meets twice a day and we discuss staffing in critical areas and if needs arise a nurse floats to the shorted area to ensure safe patient to nurse ratios.

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

There is constant communication between myself and the other staff members. Information is passed through email and during shift huddles. Face to face communications is also used when need arises.

Optional Questions

(answer only ONE question from the choices below)

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

It is a challenge when a person has never physically worked in the ER since it is difficult to understand a day a nurse has and how easily stressors can happen.

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

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

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.)

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

The interview helps me to know how to utilize different software systems but also not forget how to function without them.

Resources:

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

States how each resource helped prepare for the interview.

Resource #1: Blain, K. & Hayes, J. Professional nursing practice: Concepts and perspectives. 6th ed. 2011. Pearson Education Inc. The information in this text was helpful to know the eligibility requirements for certification as a Nursing Informatics Specialist

Resource # 2: The American Nurses Association. www.nursingworld.org. Vol 18, 2 May 2013. The Impact of Emerging Technology on Nursing Care: Warp Speed Ahead.

The information in this text was also helpful to know the eligibility requirements for certification as a Nursing Informatics Specialist