Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Required Reading

American Nurses Association. (2015). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (3rd ed.).

  • pp. 45-50; 82-84

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance. https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dhis/documents/dhis-overview.pdf

Required Article

Fronczek, A. E., Rouhana, N. A., & Kitchin, J. M. (2017). Enhancing telehealth education in nursing: Applying King’s conceptual framework and theory of goal attainment. Nursing Science Quarterly, 30(3), 209-213. https://chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mdc&AN=28899265&site=eds-live&scope=site

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 scholarly resources
    • Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates
    • Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
  • Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
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!