CDC Wonder
Purpose
This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome:
 
CO 8: Selects evidence for best practices when planning professional nursing care involving systems, processes, and devices for individuals, families, aggregates and communities. (PO 8)
 
Directions
 
Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
 
Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
 
Integrate outside scholarly sources when required
 
Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates and/or instructor
 
Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
 
Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
 
Best Practices include:
 
Participation early in the week is encouraged to stimulate meaningful discussion among classmates and instructor.
 
Enter the discussion often during the week to read and learn from posts.
 
Select different classmates for your reply each week.
 
Discussion Questions
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Informatics and Surveillance website contains a number of resources nurses could innovatively incorporate in care delivery. The CDC Wonder site could be utilized by nurses in a number of ways. https://wonder.cdc.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
 
For this discussion you will:
 
Identify one of the resources at the CDC Wonder site above and describe how a nurse might use this information in practice.
 
How might nurses utilizing telehealth benefit from these resources?
 
Address what you find innovative about the link.
 
Feel free to share some of your nursing innovation ideas!