Journal Assignment Week 8 Practicum Weekly Resources

Journal Assignment—Part 1

After reviewing the Practicum Weekly Resources, record responses to the following in your Journal:

1) What are the procedures one must follow at your Practicum site to receive approval for research? (See below in yellow)

At my Practicum site, the research has to go through the hospital’s IRB, which determines if it is considered exempt from continual review and monitoring, or if they will monitor the progress of the research. All researchers submitting to the IRB must go through an approve committee member. For nursing that is typically the director for professional practice. Additionally, researchers must be NIH certified which means they complete an online class and get a certificate that must be turned in with the IRB application.

2) As a nurse informaticist, comment on the situations you might encounter in which you would need to be cognizant of protecting human research participants. (for example: anonymity, confidentiality, informed consent).

Journal Assignment—Part 2

Note: Each week, you are responsible for locating a scholarly journal article in the Walden Library related to your area(s) of interest. Include in your Journal the reference in proper APA format and provide a brief summary of the article. (see attached pdf article) and citation below:

Ongenae, F., Famaey, J., Verstichel, S., De Zutter, S., Latré, S., Ackaert, A., & … De Turck, F. (2014). Ambient-aware continuous care through semantic context dissemination. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making, 1497. doi:10.1186/1472-6947-14-97

Journal Assignment—Part 3

Practicum Onsite Visits

Summarize the key activities of your visits to your Practicum site (as appropriate), including with whom you met, what you did, and what you gained from the experience.

This week, I assisted in another meeting regarding implementation of a new nurse call in the emergency department. The team was able to decide on the different light colors to represent a particular call. (e.g. blinking purple light outside of the patient’s room means that the patient is receiving some type of respiratory treatment). I also worked on my flowchart.

Practicum Weekly Resources

NIH Office of External Research. (2011). Protecting human research participants. Retrieved from http://phrp.nihtraining.com/index.php

This is the website of the National Institute of Health’s course for Protecting Human Research Participants. This course reviews the essentials of ethical research with human participants. It is a free program, but you are required to complete a registration.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.