NSG 3150 Healthcare Informatics
Week 2 Discussion
Safety is recognized as minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Please review the QSEN competencies related to Informatics (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#informatics) and Safety (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#safety). For this discussion, please respond to each of the following prompts:
- Describe a safety-enhancing technology that you use in your practice. Provide a full description that helps the reader understand its use and features.
- In your experience, has the technology described help reduce the intended safety risk for which it was intended? Strengthen your discussion by fully describing why or why not?
Please be sure to provide appropriate APA-formatted in-text citations and references to support your response.
