(SOLUTION) NR451 Week 7 Discussion: CDC Wonder

Purpose

This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome:

CO 8: Selects evidence for best practices when planning professional nursing care involving systems, processes, and devices for individuals, families, aggregates and communities. (PO 8)

Due Date

  • During the assigned week (Sunday the start of the assigned week through Sunday the end of the assigned week):
    • Posts in the discussion at least two times, and
    • Posts in the discussion on two different days

Points Possible

50 points

Directions

  • Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
    • Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
    • Integrate outside scholarly sources when required
    • Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates and/or instructor
    • Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
  • Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
  • Best Practices include:
    • Participation early in the week is encouraged to stimulate meaningful discussion among classmates and instructor.
    • Enter the discussion often during the week to read and learn from posts.
    • Select different classmates for your reply each week.
Discussion Questions

 

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!

SOLUTION

A resource on the CDC Wonder database that provides information relevant to practice is Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting. This database contains information on unverified reports of the adverse effects of US-licensed vaccines (Souayah et al., 2012). Nurses can utilize this site in practice as a way to monitor vaccine safety issues following administration. This resource is monumental, especially when educating patients on vaccines and how to raise concerns of adverse effects.

Telehealth nurses can find this resource beneficial in providing noteworthy data on reported adverse effects of vaccines in the United States. The use of communication technologies and digital information is becoming commonplace. Electronic medical records, computer devices and apps are increasingly used to monitor health and deliver data. It is vital that nurses provide patients with accurate data/results when using telehealth (American Nurses Association, 2015). Please click the purchase button to access the entire copy at $5