Please complete this Self-Assessment prior to answering the questions below. Please respond to the competencies honestly based on your experience and skills. This is not a graded assignment but it is required. It is a self-assessment of your competencies. Read each competency and place a √ or an X in the column you feel best describes your level of competency for each of the AACN BSN Essentials competencies. Please do not leave any competency blank. If you do not understand the competency, you will have the opportunity in the Week 1 Threaded Discussion to ask questions about the competencies. Please note you may not understand some of the competencies at this time. We will be learning these competencies in this course so it is okay if you do not feel you have experience yet in some of the competencies.
Please respond to the three following components:
1. In your initial response post, please share and evaluate your competency self-assessment score.
Which competencies do you consider your strengths?
Think about how your strengths support your nursing practice and discuss.
Discuss two or more competencies you would like to improve upon and explain how they would support your nursing practice. 
2. Discuss your personal practice-related experiences with health information technology (HIT), past or present.
If applicable, was the transition from paper charting to electronic charting easy or difficult for you?
What barriers, if any, did you encounter?
Do you feel your experiences using electronic charting have been positive or negative?
If your hospital or facility has not yet transitioned to HIT and health information systems, or if you are not currently working, what are your expectations of HIT to improve workflow and support your nursing practice to provide safe, evidence-based nursing care and improved patient outcomes? 
3. Discuss the processes required to create an informatics culture. How do these processes support safe, quality patient care in nursing practice?
All components are required to be answered as a comprehensive discussion post. Do not separate the answers and respond to each question individually.
Required Textbooks:
Hebda, T., Hunter, K., & Czar, P. (2019).  Handbook of informatics for nurses and healthcare professionals (6th ed.). Pearson.          ISBN:  9780134711010
American Nurses Association (ANA) Foundations Bundle (Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements, and the Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement). ISBN: PUB# FNDN2021 – This is not a reference. It is the ordering information for all three ANA Textbooks. 
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). ISBN: 9781433832161
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