What I Learned
I learned that public health nursing is currently being reworked and analyzed for its greater focus in the near future. The state of current services, interventions, outcomes, and evaluation are sub par and require improvements to be fully realized. This is a system that must be standardized for improved patient care and documentation. Public health nursing may take a greater stage soon and its preparedness is imperative to its success.
Siu Bong Wan
Module 4 Nur 701
A Systematic Method to Document
Population-Level Nursing Interventions in an Electronic Health System
Mary Jo Baisch
Public Health Nursing
Baisch, M. (2012). A Systematic Method to Document Population-Level
Nursing Interventions in an Electronic Health System. Public Health Nursing,
29(4), 352-360. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1446.2012.01008.x
Why was this
article, blog, post, or multimedia chosen?
I chose this article because its focus on
examining public health nursing and how it can be improved. The documentation currently in place for
public health nuring is insufficient and requires more examination and analysis
of effective interventions to truly be viable in the healthcare initiative.
What makes it interesting,
appropriate, or reputable?
This article is interesting because it
examines why public health documentation is currently inadequate in its current
state. This is to be because it is
relatively new to the health care field and its presence has had little research
to justify the community level services that are required. Public health nursing is growing larger and
its presence will be more focused as the health care initiatives gain traction
in the near future. It is appropriate
that research be started sooner than later in determining a list of
interventions that could improve practice in public health nursing.
Is it an opinion?
Case study? Research study? Product review?
This is a research study is based on using the
Automated Community Health Information System (ACHIS) to record community
health nursing interventions. The
research study is critical in providing information about how public health
nurses document interventions and how the need for electronic health systems
requires significant change to be appreciated in the health arena.
What was the need,
problem, issue or trend addressed in the article, blog, post, or multimedia?
The problem
addressed is the analysis of current public health documentation systems are
inadequate for the services offered today.
More research must be provided to ascertain the list of growing
interventions that are required in public health nursing and make it so that a
systematic method can be produced from the interventions provided.
What was the
solution for which technology had an answer?
The solution
is more research of the expanding services required in public health
nursing. The technology is being implemented
just as it is now in the health care facilities.
The public health nurses are being outfitted with tablets, laptops, and
electronic health documentation. The
analysis of its current state suggests more interventions and outcomes can be
recorded for proper processing and evaluation of community health services.
What implications
might this have in health care delivery?
The implications are very large as it is a
step in the right direction. The need
for public health nursing will be a larger focus in the coming years and it
needs to be ready for the public. There
are still deficits in the system with adapting to new data systems and
interventions to help record outcomes for patient care. The health care system is slowly changing and
analysis of public health nursing now can help provide changes necessary for
public health professionals.
What did you learn
from it that might have application for your practice?
I learned
that the public health nurse has more to offer than just education. It is about teaching a community how to live
healthy. That may require building of
gardens, providing housing assistance, and community outreach. It is taking what is known about home health
and applying it to a community of individuals who vary in all their stages of
health. The research being done can help
improve the data systems for new and improved public health interventions and
the outcomes can be recorded to facilitate better evaluation of nursing
standards and procedures.
Hi Adam,
ReplyDeleteNurses are truly critical to the success of health systems of today and tomorrow. This includes being part of how data systems can improve public health interventions and their outcomes. Because I am involved with how technology impacts care in my current position, I see this in action everyday. Thank you for presenting this challenge to us by choosing this article to blog about!
The public health nurse has evolved into a family treasure with suggestions and valuable information to daily living and not just treatment plans. They need to know the local resources of their patients residence and how to get them the treatment they need. They often provide money savings techniques for patients with chronic diseases. The Automated Community Health Information System (ACHIS) is a great intitative to recording the numerous community health nursing interventions they actually provide. great article Adam.
ReplyDeleteI found this article interesting because the public is where everything starts. Education about diseases and providing care to patients that are unable to care for themselves without significant help will make up nursing in the future. This I am almost certain. There will be a discussion about how to treat disease outside of the hospital setting and the patients will be treated in their homes. Public health is so dynamic though and proper documentation needs to be in place before value can be placed in the public health field it currently is in.
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