NR 451 Week 7 Graded Discussion Topic: CDC Wonder
NR451 Week 7 Graded Discussion Topic: CDC Wonder
CDC Wonder
NR 451
NR 451 Week 7 Graded Discussion
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This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome:
CO8: Selects evidence for best practices when planning professional nursing care involving systems, processes, and devices for individuals, families, aggregates and communities. (PO#8)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Informatics and Surveillance website contains a number of resources nurses could innovatively incorporate in care delivery. The CDC Wonder site could be utilized by nurses in a number of ways. https://wonder.cdc.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
For this discussion you will identify one of the resources at the CDC Wonder site above. And describe how a nurse might use this information in practice.
How might nurses utilizing telehealth benefit from these resources?
Address what you find innovative about the link.
Feel free to share some of your nursing innovation ideas!
Answer
The resource I liked the most and thought was the most informative for nurse was the prevention guidelines. This set of guidelines is used for the prevention of diseases, injuries, and disabilities (CDC, 2018). Nurses are able to use this site in practice as a guideline for prevention and health control. These include things such as vaccine preventable diseases, disaster responses, STD’s and many more other diseases. (CDC, 2018). This can be a very helpful tool when educating patients on their disease process and is another resource to use when educating on prevention of certain diseases as well.
The telehealth nurse can benefit from the resources provided by the CDC wonder as it provides great statistical data on several topics concerning health in the United States. Innovations in care delivery like telehealth are expanding, you are seeing more options for telehealth around the world for many situations (CCN, 2019). Electronic medical records, apps, and devices, are used every day for delivery of data and monitoring of health. To provide accurate results when using this type of delivery method, the telehealth nurse can search for statistics on the CDC wonder website. Telehealth utilizes technology that connects nurses and persons receiving healthcare services (Carroll, 2018). Telehealth nursing should be considered an opportunity to operationalize and transform the art of care, especially when it is guided by nursing theory. SO nurses can use the data in the CDC for evidence for research and practice changes (CCN, 2019). Telehealth is being used more and more in today’s healthcare.
The data that was provided on the CDC wonder link was innovative. It is very helpful in providing reasons as to why things should be done a certain way. One example was the data on the influenza mortality. Weekly the CDC reviews the mortality reports from 122 cities in the United States (CDC, 2018). These reports summarize the total number of deaths occurring in each of these cities each week. It goes to also show the number attributed to pneumonia and influenza. We struggle with many people refusing to get vaccinated, including the influenza vaccine. If people were more educated on vaccines maybe they would feel differently about the vaccinations. The data on this site can be specific about certain areas including cities or an area.
CDC, 2018. CDC WONDER. Retrieved: https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/prevguid.html
Carroll, K. (2018). Transforming the Art of Nursing: Telehealth Technologies. Nursing Science Quarterly, 31(3), 230-232. https://doi.org.org/10.1177/0894318418774930 [Show Less]