NR 599-12914[Week 5 CDSS Clinical Decision Support Systems latest 2020]

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Week 5 CDSS 1. This week we learned about the potential benefits and drawbacks to clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). Create a “Pros” versus “Cons” table with a column for “Pro” ... and a separate column for “Con”. Include at least 3 items for each column. Next to each item, provide a brief rationale as to why you included it on the respective list. 2. The primary goal of a CDSS is to leverage data and the scientific evidence to help guide appropriate decision making. CDSSs directly assist the clinician in making decisions about specific patients. For this discussion thread post, you are to assume your future role as an APN and create a clinical patient and scenario to illustrate an exemplary depiction of how a CDSS might influence your decision. This post is an opportunity for you to be innovative, so have fun! Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are indeed targeted to help healthcare providers to approach care with accuracy and promote safe and efficient patient care. However, like other technology-assisted processes and/or workflow, drawbacks are inevitable that put risk in the care approach through the utilization of such a system. Hence, to assist healthcare providers to effectively utilize CDSS and promote collaboration in helping informatics specialists in CDSS development, identifying the pros and cons is essential for learning purposes for present and future applications. Identifying factors that affect the workflow through CDSS is vital to identify what helps the provider to be efficient or inefficient in utilizing such a system (Olufisayo, Mohd Yusof, & Ezat Wan Puteh, 2018). [Show More]

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