Interview with a Nursing Information ExpertDirections: After completing your interview, you must use this form to submit your assignment to the Dropbox. You may use the form to capture information as you conduct your interview, or fill it in later. The form is expandable and will enlarge the textbox to accommodate your answers. Do not rely only on this form for everything you must include! Please look in Doc Sharing for specific instructions in the Guidelines for this assignment.

Criteria Fill in the answers in this column.
Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, official job title of interviewee, and the date the interview was conducted.
Required Questions
(answer EVERY question in this section)
1. Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.
2. Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.
3. What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?
4. Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility.
5. What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high quality information/data and how is that information utilized?
Optional Questions
(answer only ONE question from the choices below)
1. Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not “understand the needs of nurses/nursing?”
2. Please share an example of how garbage in/garbage out (GIGO) impacted a decision related to your information/data collection.
3. Please give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role.
4. Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you?
Follow-up Questions
(Answer all of these. Please do not ask them during the interview.
Instead, reflect and answer them afterwards.)
1. How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.
2. Resources (scholarly articles or texts). Indicate two scholarly resources or texts used prior to the interview to familiarize yourself with the individual’s organization, role, or any of the questions you asked to make you a more knowledgeable interviewer. Resource #1:
Resource # 2:

Interview with a Nursing Information Expert:
Guidelines and Grading Rubric
PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment is to
• communicate your understanding of the importance of quality information in everyday nursing practice;
• discuss the roles and responsibilities of a Nursing Information Expert; and
• articulate how the professional nurse uses information/data in every day practice to improve outcomes.
COURSE OUTCOMES
This assignment enables the student to meet the following Course Outcomes.

CO#1: Describe patient-care technologies as appropriate to address the needs of a diverse patient population. (PO#1)
CO#4: Investigate safeguards and decision-making support tools embedded in patient care technologies and information systems to support a safe practice environment for both patients and healthcare workers.
CO#8: Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force to institute change in delivery of nursing care. (PO#8)
POINTS
This assignment is worth a total of 250 points.
DUE DATE
This assignment, Interview with a Nursing Information Expert, is due at the end of Week 6. Submit your completed Interview, using the Interview Form, to the basket in the Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT. Post questions to the weekly Q & A Forum. Contact your instructor if you need additional assistance. See the Course Policies regarding late assignments. Failure to submit your paper to the Dropbox on time will result in a deduction of points.
DIRECTIONS
1. Download the NR361 Interview Form from Doc Sharing. It is found under the Week 6 Interview link.
2. Select your interviewee and schedule an interview. This individual must be a Registered Nurse. Job titles of RNs who may be considered include, but are not limited to, Nursing Clinical Information Manager; Super User, Director/Manger Clinical Education; Chief Information Officer; Quality Assurance or Performance Improvement Nurse; Nurse Informaticist; Telenursing Specialist; Nurse Abstractor; Case Manager; Compliance Nurse. If you have any concerns about whether the RN is suitable for this assignment, contact your instructor BEFORE you schedule the interview.
3. Review all questions (areas of inquiry) on the Interview Form located in Doc Sharing PRIOR to conducting the interview. You may print the form and take it with you to the interview.
4. Note there are five required questions to ask the RN.
5. Note there are four optional questions. You need to select only one of these to ask the RN.
6. Note there are two follow-up questions that must be answered by you.
Prior to conducting your interview, review two scholarly resources. These resources should guide your understanding of the RN’s role and responsibilities or make you more knowledgeable about GIGO, Interprofessional Communication, or other key concepts in the questions that you may not fully understand. For example, if your interviewee is a telenurse, you would want to review information on this specialty. If you do not know what GIGO means, look it up.
7. Conduct your interview. The length of your interview will vary but should not exceed one hour.
8. Submit the form to the Dropbox prior to the deadline outlined above.
GRADING CRITERIA
Category Points % Description
Demographics 5 2% Initials and job title of interviewee and date of interview provided.
Required Question #1
(Career Path) 30 12% Provide a paraphrased or summary of the interviewee’s answer. You may quote the interviewee, but sparingly. Do NOT provide a verbatim transcript of everything that was said.
Required Question #2
(Value of Evidence) 30 12% Provide a paraphrased or summary of the interviewee’s answer. You may quote the interviewee, but sparingly. Do NOT provide a verbatim transcript of everything that was said.
Required Question #3
(Support Tools) 30 12% Provide a paraphrased or summary of the interviewee’s answer. You may quote the interviewee, but sparingly. Do NOT provide a verbatim transcript of everything that was said.
Required Question #4
(Pt. Care Technologies) 30 12% Provide a paraphrased or summary of the interviewee’s answer. You may quote the interviewee, but sparingly. Do NOT provide a verbatim transcript of everything that was said.
Required Question #5
(Groups and Utilization) 30 12% Provide a paraphrased or summary of the interviewee’s answer. You may quote the interviewee, but sparingly. Do NOT provide a verbatim transcript of everything that was said.
Optional Question 30 12% Type the optional question that you chose to ask. Provide a paraphrased or summary of the interviewee’s answer. You may quote the interviewee, but sparingly. Do NOT provide a verbatim transcript of everything that was said.
Follow-Up Question #1
(Practice Impact) 30 12% Summarizes what was learned from interaction with interviewee answers. Describes how nursing practice will change as a result of learning about roles and responsibilities of interviewee.
Follow-Up Question #2
(Resources Utilized) 30 12% Names two resources reviewed prior to conducting interview.
Describes how each resource helped student prepare for interview.
Scholarly Writing 5 2% Name of student and date of interview appears on Interview Form. Punctuation and sentence structure are correct. Evidence of spell and grammar check.
Total 250 pts 100% A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements
GRADING RUBRIC

Assignment Criteria A
Outstanding or Highest Level of Performance B
Very Good or High Level of Performance C
Competent or Satisfactory Level of Performance F
Poor or Failing or Unsatisfactory Level of Performance
Demographics
5 points Initials, job title, and date of interview are provided.
5 points Either initials, job title, or date of interview is missing.
4 points Name is provided instead of initials. Job title or date of interview is missing.
3 points Name is provided but no job title or date of interview.
0–2 points
Required Question #1
(Career Path)
30 points Clearly describes career path including education and experiences.
28–30 points Describes career path but education OR experiences are not provided.
25–27 points Describes career path but does not include experiences and educational background.
23–24 points Briefly describes career path.
0–22 points
Required Question #2
(Value of Evidence)
30 points Clearly states value of best practice as a driving force.
28–30 points States value of best practice as a driving force but may have omitted key elements.
25–27 points Briefly describes value of best practice as a driving force.
23–24 points Does not discuss value of best evidence.
0–22 points
Required Question #3
(Support Tools)
30 points Clearly describes safeguards and decision-making support tools that support safe practices.
28–30 points Describes safeguards and decision-making support tools that support safe practices but may have omitted key elements.
25–27 points Briefly describes safeguards and decision-making support tools that support safe practice.
23–24 points Does not describe safeguards and decision-making support tools that support safe practice.
0–22 points
Required Question #4
(Pt. Care Technologies)
30 points Names/lists four or more technologies that improved patient care.
28–30 points Names/lists three technologies that improved patient care.
25–27 points Names/lists two technologies that improved patient care.
23–24 points Names/lists zero to one technologies that improved patient care.
0–22 points
Required Question #5
(Groups & Utilization)
30 points Names/lists three or more groups that rely on information/data AND describes how information is utilized.
28–30 points Names/lists one to two groups that rely on information/data AND briefly describes how information is utilized.
25–27 points Names/lists groups but does not describe how information is utilized.
23–24 points Does not name/list groups and does not describe how information is utilized.
0–22 points
Optional Question
30 points Clearly indicates which optional question was asked. Clearly describes answer to optional question.
28–30 points Does not indicate which optional question was asked. Briefly provides answer to optional question.
25–27 points Indicates which question was asked but does not provide an answer.
23–24 points Does not include optional question or answer.
0–22 points
Follow-Up Question #1
(Practice Impact)
30 points Clearly summarizes what was learned from interaction with interviewee answers. Clearly describes how personal nursing practice will change as a result of learning about roles and responsibilities of interviewee.
28–30 points Briefly summarizes what was learned from interaction with interviewee answers.
Briefly describes how personal nursing practice will change.
25–27 points Includes summary or describes how personal nursing practice will change. Does not include both.
23–24 points Fails to summarize what was learned and fails to describe how personal nursing practice will change.
0–22 points
Follow-Up Question #2
(Scholarly Resources Utilized)
30 points Specifically names two scholarly resources reviewed prior to interview.
Clearly states how each resource helped prepare for interview.
28–30 points Specifically names two scholarly resources reviewed prior to interview.
Briefly states how each resource helped prepare for interview.
25–27 points Specifically names only one scholarly resource reviewed prior to interview.
Briefly states how the resource helped prepare for interview.
23–24 points Names scholarly resources but does not indicate how resources helped prepare for interview.
or
fails to indicate resources.
0–22 points
Scholarly Writing
5 points Name of student and date of interview appears on Interview Form. Punctuation and sentence structure are correct. Evidence of spell and grammar check.
5 points Name of student and date of interview appears on Interview Form.
Minimal punctuation, sentence structure errors noted.
No indications of grammar or spelling errors (wavy lines) noted.
4 points Name of student or date of interview is missing.
Several punctuation, sentence-structure errors noted.
Several indications of grammar or spelling errors (wavy lines) noted.
3 points Name of student or date of interview is missing.
Multiple punctuation or sentence structure errors noted.
Spellcheck errors not corrected prior to submission of assignment.
0–2 points
Total Points Possible = _____/250