Name: De Dios, Chara Marie N.

Section: BSN- 2A

MAY 11,2016

INTERNET TOOLS FOR ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE

Clinical information databases and systems must be designed for system-wide and
discipline-specific needs. To meet discipline-specific needs, the design of clinical
information databases and systems requires the input of members of each involved
discipline. The reason is that each discipline is alone responsible for its knowledge base,
practice, and standards of practice. Without this interdisciplinary approach to the
development of clinical information systems, the resultant system will be ineffective in
addressing the patient needs for which it is designed and inefficient.
Wireless applications permit Internet connectivity. Within some academic health science
centers this allows for Web-based clinical decision support, patient and clinician e-mail
communication, and point-of-care electronic health record data entry, data sharing, and
messaging, including prescription writing.
Wireless technology is electromagnetically safe. Bluetooth radio technology, on which
wireless devices rely, was found to be safe and robust even within intensive care
environments (Wallin and Wajntraub, 2004). Other issues surrounding wireless
technology use are not minor (Delbanco and Sands, 2004; Newbold, 2004).
BASIC ADVANCED INTERNET SEARCH METHODS
Regardless of search engine used, certain search methodologies, if applied correctly,
increase the efficiency of needed information.
Basic to Advanced Strategies when searching:
1.) Name the precise information being sought. If the search terms used are precisely
chosen, the searcher goes directly to the desired information.
2.)Use search strings (one or more search terms) rather than single words to increase
the preciseness of a search.
3.)Enhance search strings by using BOOLEAN or natural language methods. Use
the Boolean terms:
1.) AND- when search strings needed to be added together
2.) OR- when equivalent terms or synonyms are used to capture the information required
3.) NOT- when a specific result for searching is not desired to be included
INTERNET AVALABLE CLINICAL PRACTICE TOOLS

ASSESSMENT TOOLS:

For comprehensive nursing assessment forms

(http://www.hospitalsoup.com/public/nursingassess2001.pdf )
Resource information for alcohol abuse (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov )
Domestic abuse assessment (http://www.state.vt.us/health/abuse.htm )
For advanced nursing practice (http://ctclearinghouse.org )
Body mass index calculator (http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm )
Cancer risk tools (http://www.yourcancerrisk.harvard.edu/)
Coronary heart disease risk calculator
(http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/atpiii.calculator.asp?usertype=prof )

Health risk calculators (http://www.umm.edu/healthcalculators/)

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS
Classification systems according to Knowledge-based Practice:

Medical classification of diseases (e.g. International Classifications of Disease)

Nursing classifications of human responses to illness and health (e.g. the NANDA
Classification of Nursing Diagnoses)
Functional health and disability (e.g. the International Classification of
Functioning in Health and Disability)

SUMMARY OF ADVANCED CLINICAL TOOLS:

Nursing Process

Assessment
Diagnosis/Treatment
Outcomes/Evaluation

v Nursing Process
Assessment:

Assessment Forms

Miscellaneous Screening Tools

Population-Based Assessment, example

Risk Assessment

Signs and Symptoms Manifestations

Diagnosis/Treatment Calculators

Bioterrorism/Emergency Preparedness
Diseases/Conditions, pick lists
Diseases, specific examples of
Easy diagnosis
Genomics
Standardized Diagnosis Terminologies
Unified Medical Language System
Standardized Treatment Terminologies
Nursing Care Plan Forms
Practice/Treatment Guidelines
Drug Management

Outcomes/Evaluation

Patient Safety
Standardized Outcome Terminologies
OASIS
HEDIS

REFERENCE:
https://sweetmaepabe.wordpress.com/internet-tools-for-advanced-nursing-practice/