All Nurses Must • In supporting nursing research
- Possess computer skills
- Be able to use applications and The Value of Nurse Informaticists
- Know how to manage information and - Support nursing work processes using
knowledge technology
- Design systems to match clinical
Why is it important? workflows:
- Informatics enables nurses to use • Telehealth
information and communication • Home health
technologies in the: • Ambulatory care
• Collection of data • Long-term care
• Use of information • Acute care - all specialties
• Generation of knowledge to support • Outpatient settings
nursing practice • Software development
• Redesign work flows
Functional Areas of Nursing Informatics: ANA - Increase the accuracy and completeness
Scope and Standards of Practice of nursing documentation
- administration, leadership and - Improve the nurse’s workflow
management • Eliminate redundant documentation
- Analysis - Automate the collection and reuse of
- Compliance & integrity management nursing data
- Consultation - Facilitate analysis of clinical data
- coordination, facilitation, & integration
- Development Using Information
- Education and professional development - Evidence-based practice leads to
- Policy development and advocacy • Determining standards and guideline
- Research evaluation • Guide for decision-making process
• Determines best practice
The goal of nursing informatics… - Nursing informatics can enable
- Is to improve the health of populations, dissemination of new knowledge
communities, families, and individuals by • Practitioners update themselves of new
optimizing information management and developments through journals,
communication. This includes the use of conferences, and continuing education
information and technology in the: sessions.
• Direct provision of care
• In establishing effective administrative The Benefits of Nursing Informatics
systems - In the practice of professional nursing
• In managing and delivering educational - In the delivery of patient care in the
experiences healthcare continuum
• In supporting lifelong learning
The Benefits of Nursing Informaticists - Have practiced at least 2 years
- Benefits for nurses and the interdisciplinary - Have earned 20 contact hours of
team: continuing education credit
1. Support for their mission to deliver
high quality, evidence-based care Needed Competencies
2. Support for better service by - Technical competencies
facilitating true interdisciplinary care - Utility Competencies
3. Promotes improvements in key - Leadership Competencies
relationships with physicians, peers,
interdisciplinary care team, members, Technical Competencies
patients, and families. - Technical competencies are related to the
actual psychomotor use of computers and
Education in Informatics other technological equipments. Specific
- Both formal and informal education for nursing informatics competencies include
nursing informatics are available. Needs the ability to use selected applications in a
BSN plus a second degree in computer comfortable and knowledgeable way. It is
science or information technology more important that nurses feel confident
in their use of computers and software in
Formal Informatics the practice setting, especially at the
- Category I - it is a graduate programs with bedside, in order to be able to attend to the
a specialist nursing informatics focus client at the same time.
- Category II - in this program students take - Word processing
6 to 12 months credits of course work in - Keyboarding
informatics - Spreadsheets
- Category III - offer individual courses in - Presentation graphics
nursing informatics at both the graduate - Databases
and undergraduate level. - Desktop publishing
- Peripherals (printers, CD-ROMs, DVD)
Informal Education - World Wide Web
- Networking through professional - E-mail programs
organizations - Expert data systems
- Keeping abreast of literature by: - Multimedia
• Reading journals - Telecommunication devices
• Professional conferences - Nursing information systems
- Hospital information system
Certification:
- American Nurses Credentialing Center Utility Competencies
(ANCC) offers certification - Utility competencies are related to the
- Possess active registered nursing license process of using computers and other
- BSN or higher Nursing degree technological equipment within nursing
practice, education, research and - Consultant
administration. Specific nursing informatics - Innovator
competencies include the process of
applying evidence based practice, critical Nursing Informatics - Future
thinking, and accountability in the use of - Ubiquitous computing is becoming a reality
selected applications in a comfortable and and the continued innovation and
knowledgeable way. miniaturization of technology is evident.
Consequently partnering between nurses
Leadership Competencies in all specialties and new technologies is
- Leadership competencies are related to becoming imperative.
the ethical and management issues related - The speed of information transfer and the
to using computers and other technological increasing availability of communication
equipment within nursing practice, technologies will impact nurses and
education, research, and administration. informatics nurse specialists in the future,
Specific nursing informatics competencies making nursing practice and NI, in
include the process of applying particular, more international in practices
accountability, client privacy and with world-wide standards, competencies
confidentiality and quality assurance in and curricula.
documentation in the use of selected
applications in a comfortable and Future of Nursing Informatics
knowledgeable way. - Acute care → outpatient care → home
care
Nursing Informatics Leadership Role - Need knowledgeable practitioners to
- Evidence based practice investigate, implement, and use
- Competency literacy skills automation
- Information literacy skills - Practitioners will be hired not so much for
- Project management skills their knowledge or skills as for their ability
- Change management skills to handle information to make decision that
- Process management skills produce cost effective results.
- Information management and - Emerging roles
communication • entrepreneurs, product developers, web
• Data analysis design, independent consultants
• Trending and forecasting - Challenges
- Resource planning, utilization, and • Integration of data - duplication often
evaluation • Inability to access data for decision
• Technology assessment making
- Administration
- Safety and quality
- Make judgments based on data trends and
patterns
