Chapter X Flashcards
competency that identify errors and hazards in care; understand and implement basic safety design principles … design and test interventions to change processes and systems of care, with the objective of improving quality.
Apply quality improvement
medical informatics degree programs can choose to specialize many areas of IT
including:
Bioinformatics
Public Health Informatics
Organizational Informatics
Social Informatics
Clinical Informatics
a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science
to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing
practice. NI supports consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers in their decisionmaking in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of
information structures, information processes, and information technology
Nursing Informatics
BSN to DNP takes
three to four years
considering the specialty of nurse informatics should, at a minimum, obtain a **
bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN)
Advanced-practice nurses those who have completed what degree
master’s program in nursing (MSN) or doctoral degree program (DNP)
MSN to DNP takes
one to two years
study of how the use of information technology and computer science can bring an organization together and how to allow proper communication within medical organizations.
Organizational Informatics
Nurses formally prepared at the graduate level in informatics (ANA, 2008)
With the national emphasis on HIT education, various types of informatics-related educational programs are available at the graduate level, such as nursing
informatics, healthcare informatics, bio-medical informatics, etc.
Informatics Nurse Specialists (INSs)
number of career options available in this
lane, including the following:
Clinical informatics specialist
Nursing informatics specialist
Clinical analyst
Clinical informatics manager
Clinical informatics coordinator
Nursing informatics analyst
helps people adapt to technology as it
influences the acceptance of scientific information
Reflection
Nurse generalists who have gained on-the-job training in the fiels but do not
have the educational preparation at the graduate level in an informatics-related
area
Informatics Nurses (INs)
several options for Education for careers in Health Informatics
Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics
Bachelor of Information Technology
Bachelor of Science Business—Information Technology Management
Master of Science in Health Informatics
Master of Information Systems
Master of Health Informatics
Master of Nursing Informatics
self-management apps require hours of individual and group reflection. On professional practice, it deepens when routine practice benchmarks are available for
review
reflection
competency that integrate best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible.
Employ evidence-based practice
Nursing Informatics Scope And Standard Of Practice: Related to the ability to identify a need for information as well as the ability to
find, evaluate, organize and use the information effectively
INFORMATION LITERACY