Hi Professor Rossmanith and class,

One of the resources of the CDC Wonder Site that I found informative and applicable to nursing practice is the AIDS Public Information HIV/AIDS day and statistics accessible from the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention ( NCHHSTP). Searching the database revealed very important information that can assist the nurse to plan care bearing in mind that Illinois placed 6th in 2015 with 1,472 adults most in the 25-35 age group Approximately 1 in 7 individuals. This explains why my facility strongly campaigns for AIDS awareness with posters and flyers posted in strategy. Nurses collaborate with doctors and patient navigate for hiv to order labs, to treat and report new cases to pubic health department. Important implications for nursing practice include educating patients who are living with the infection, referral to community resources and screening target age groups for high risk social behavior for hiv.

According to American Nurses Association (2015), nurses are required to use relevant resources while applying the nursing process to assess, plan and implement safe, quality and cost effective nursing interventions rooted in evidence. Nurses utilizing evidence can benefit in many ways from what the CDC Wonder Site has to offer. Telehealth nurses, home health nurses and nurses working in public health can quickly access a variety of up to date Public health data including statistics, the prevalence of diseases and infections, community resources, research findings, reports and guidelines which support evidence based practice for nurses who provide nursing care via video conferencing.

The CDC Wonder is innovative; it is interactive allowing the nurse to view data on hiv and other specific STDs, social determinants of health, risk factors and the ability to create maps, charts and tables that can be downloaded to

to individual files for each disease saving the time to from revisiting the website. The ease of access from one entry point to other CDC databases is helpful and facilitates one stop search on selected topics of interest

One innovation I believe would promote the safety of patients receiving care via telehealth would be collaboration with nurse informatician and systems vendor to enable one system to communicate with another as in a hospital computerized system linking to another clinical information system.

References

American Nurses Association. (2015). Nursing scope and standards of practice (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association.