Discussion: Nursing Pioneers Essay

Discussion: Nursing Pioneers Essay

Question Description
One of the major drivers in recent health care reform legislation is the American

Reinvestment and Recovery Act’s (ARRA) HiTech Incentive. This act, passed in 2009,

earmarked $22 billion for the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), with a goal

of 100% adoption in all practice settings by the year 2014. The HiTech Act provides an

example of the pivotal role that health information technology plays in the delivery of

quality health care services. Yet, health information technology is a relatively new field.

This Application Assignment provides an opportunity for you to examine the

contributions of pioneers in this arena and consider how their contributions have

influenced health informatics and nursing practice today.

To prepare:

 Visit the AMIA Video Library 1: Nursing Informatics Pioneers webpage listed in the

Learning Resources.

 Review the biographies and video presentations of pioneers who are of interest to you,

or may hold a position that you aspire to achieve.

 Select two nursing informatics pioneers and conduct further research on their

contributions.

 Consider how their contributions have influenced health information technology and

nursing practice today.

By Day 7 of Week 2

Write a scholarly 3- to 4-page paper comparing two nursing informatics pioneers.

Synthesize your thoughts using the bullets below as a guide:

 What are the professional accomplishments of each individual?

 How have their contributions influenced nursing practice?

 How have their contributions shaped the field of nursing informatics?

 What lessons can you take away from their experiences?

 What skills or ideas demonstrated by these leaders might you apply to your professional

practice?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument