considered the interaction of nurse informaticists with other specialists to ensure successful care. How is that success determined?
Patient outcomes and the fulfillment of care goals is one of the major ways that healthcare success is measured. Measuring patient outcomes results in the generation of data that can be used to improve results. Nursing informatics can have a significant part in this process and can help to improve outcomes by improving processes, identifying at-risk patients, and enhancing efficiency.
To Prepare:
Review the concepts of technology application as presented in the Resources.
Reflect on how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence may help fortify nursing informatics as a specialty by leading to increased impact on patient outcomes or patient care efficiencies.
The Assignment: (4-5 pages not including the title and reference page)
In a 4- to 5-page project proposal written to the leadership of your healthcare organization, propose a nursing informatics project for your organization that you advocate to improve patient outcomes or patient-care efficiency. Your project proposal should include the following:
Describe the project you propose.
Identify the stakeholders impacted by this project.
Explain the patient outcome(s) or patient-care efficiencies this project is aimed at improving and explain how this improvement would occur. Be specific and provide examples.
Identify the technologies required to implement this project and explain why.
Identify the project team (by roles) and explain how you would incorporate the nurse informaticist in the project team.
Thomas Hobbes’
Leviathan marks the genesis of the artificial political entity that is the Hobbesian commonwealth, with a social covenant as its efficient cause. Hobbes claims that this all-powerful commonwealth that he baptizes the Leviathan (as an allusion to the biblical beast) is the ultimate escape from a state where people have unlimited rights, but fear is the absolute sovereign and war is the only constant. Though he is rather vocal about his preferred form of government being an absolute monarchy, there is still some debate in whether the Leviathan Hobbes described actually takes such form. Thus, it remains the question of what is the true form of this political entity? In
Machiavelli’s The Prince, he claims that all governments in his time have either been governed by one man as in a principality or more than one man as in democratic or oligarchic republics (Machiavelli, 5). Along with being a reign of multiple people, a republican government in Machiavellian terms is a state where its people are “accustomed to living by their own laws and in liberty” (Machiavelli, 20). Based on these definitions I believe that the ideal Hobbesian Leviathan is both a principality and a republic as the sovereign wields all of the state’s power individually, but is merely the head to the political entity, as he creates and enforces legislation with the purpose of representing, serving, and protecting the people. By agreeing to the social contract, the masses free themselves of the paralyzing fear of the state of nature and make themselves, not only the authors of the Leviathan, but of each one of his actions. Therefore one could say that a Hobbesian commonwealth allows for people to live “by their own laws” (Machiavelli, 20).
As Thomas Hobbes was a vocal advocate for absolute sovereignty as the greatest form of government, it is almost impossible not to find traces of his absolutism within the Leviathan. One example of this is the indivisibility of the office of the sovereign, in which Hobbes demonstrates when discussing the harm of having unrestricted representatives, who he calls “second sovereigns.” He states,