Nursing
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!
Among the many resources that a nurse can use from the CDC website is the Prevention Guideline
database. A practicing nurse can use the resource to acquire information that ca help in preventing
diseases, injuries and disabilities. The resource provides a quick access for information for
prevention of health conditions form occurring. The information on the resource is readily available
for anyone making it easy for a nurse to access it wherenever in need no matter the location. Thus,
a nurse enjoys unlimited benefits of free health information.
A telehealth nurse benefits from the resources in the CDC’s Divison of Informatics and Surveillance
website by having a free, full-time access to information applicable in delivering care. A nurse
utilizing telehealth might have challenges while providing care to a patient and given the
environment the nurse might not have anyone close to consult. In such a case, the resources on
CDC website becomes an important reference for the nurse. The information is free for the nurse, it
is easily accessible, understandable and makes it easy to apply. A telehealth nurse can also use the
material for learning purpose even when they are not offering services. The platform offer standards
education material for health professionals.
The https://wonder.cdc.gov/ link is well organized into various categories and subcategories which
are denoted by the various links. The innovation makes it easy to use even for persons interacting
with it for the first time because just need to click on the link with the information they need. It makes
it easy to use as one does not have to go through different pages to get what one is looking for.