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The Nurse’s View: Stakeholders, Challenges, and Innovation During COVID-19 Pandemic

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As the world enters the new realm of global disease and pandemic, one must consider, “What is the 360° View” of informatics? The first consideration is to examine “Who is the stakeholder?” Prior to 2020, one might only consider that a stakeholder is someone directly connected to healthcare. Yet, thanks to Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19), we have learned that this healthcare crisis affects healthcare, and new stakeholders have emerged. It will be the focus of this chapter to think prospectively, in a wide view, to consider the expanding role of the nurse and other emerging stakeholders, as they utilize informatics, in a very rapidly changing healthcare field.

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    Krysia W. Hudson

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  2. The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Arlington, TX, USA

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Appendix: Answers to Review Questions

Appendix: Answers to Review Questions

  1. 1.

    How would you define a stakeholder?

    A stakeholder is a role where the individual has a vested interest in the positive outcome of a patient. This could be a nurse, pharmacist, prescriber, etc.

  2. 2.

    After review of this chapter, please identify and defend which stakeholder should have increased input in healthcare delivery?

    A new stakeholder is someone that is not a traditional stakeholder. This person could be a chaplain, a veterinarian, a housekeeper, a unit secretary, a dentist. These new stakeholders must be sought out in healthcare or in the health of the consumer. In lieu of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID patients living at home need the grocery delivery or pharmaceutical delivery. These non-traditional roles must be explored and incorporated into collaboration to optimize consumer health.

  3. 3.

    Name some practical considerations of using remote technology. MARK ALL THAT APPLY.

    1. (a)

      Sterilizing the remote technology

    2. (b)

      Validating data of remote technology

    3. (c)

      Providing education of remote technology

    4. (d)

      Offering alternate manners of collecting data

  4. 4.

    Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, what are some scarce resources identified? MARK ALL THAT APPLY.

    1. (a)

      Patients

    2. (b)

      ICU nurses

    3. (c)

      Intensivists

    4. (d)

      ICU beds

    5. (e)

      Groceries

    6. (f)

      PPE

  5. 5.

    What is the practical consideration when using mobile technology to communicate with patients? MARK ALL THAT APPLY.

    1. (a)

      Literacy of the patient

    2. (b)

      Technological literacy of the patient

    3. (c)

      Physical ability to operate the mobile device

    4. (d)

      The Wi-Fi stability of the environment

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Hudson, K.W. (2022). The Nurse’s View: Stakeholders, Challenges, and Innovation During COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Hübner, U.H., Mustata Wilson, G., Morawski, T.S., Ball, M.J. (eds) Nursing Informatics . Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91237-6_4

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