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'''Promoting Patient Engagement Through Information Technology '''

Module number nine was a great assignment, it gave me the opportunity to expand my critical skills in nursing informatics. I conducted a social network analysis using the platform Gephi about influential tweets surrounding the Covid-19 virus and vaccination efforts. I’ll be completely honest in saying that I had never used Twitter or Gephi before this assignment so this was a great learning experience. Learning how to use Gephi was initially challenging but through the help of my peers I survived and our graph turned out great. We were able to organize our network statistics to find the number of nodes, graph density, connected components and much more.

Module number three was a very eye-opening assignment about the misinformation that was being spread worldwide about Covid-19. The lack of transparency between the television outlets, websites and social media platforms was causing many people to not trust the vaccine. I was also surprised that women had a lower acceptance rate of the vaccine than men, I would have assumed that it would be the other way around. I was also able to look at data from the Covid-19 dashboard which I honestly didn’t even know existed and was amazed at how accurate and detailed it was. The dashboard did a great job of tracking every Covid related infection or death from countries all over the world.

In module number five I was required to build a healthcare chatbot to help potential patients understand how blood pressure readings work. This was my first time ever building a chatbot using Google Dialog flow and I definitely learned a lot. We also took a deeper look into Telehealth in this module and how healthcare providers were using robots and machines to provide better care for their patients. I still personally think that face to face nursing is better overall but I there are instances where a robot can be a better fit, especially sense there is a shortage of nurses worldwide. I was also required to put together a video on how the chatbot was completed, the video was helpful in tracking my progress and allowed me to look back on what I learned.

Module number seven was about usability testing, where I created a personal survey by using Google forms. The survey was used to collect demographical data and basic information from a few of my classmates and peers. A total of 16 people responded to my survey; I enjoyed this assignment it gave me the opportunity to step outside of my comfort zone. I also created automated analytics based on the tutorial and information gathered from the survey.

Module number eleven was a collaborative effort I worked with four of my classmates. We used Caspio and the information obtained from module number ten to create a searchable literature database. We then designed an App utilizing the MIT App Inventor with the searchable literature database linked to it. Creating the App was a bit challenging but after some trial and error and talking with other groups we were able to get the job done.

In conclusion throughout this semester these modules have increased my awareness on how important nursing informatics is and will be in the future within healthcare. As a future RN it’s going to be very crucial for me to continue developing my skills to utilize IT systems during patient care and documentation.