NURSING INFORMATICS LEADERSHIP Flashcards
Effective Nurse Informaticists command highly especialized knowledge from THREE distinct disciplines:
- clinical nursing
- information technology
- research
use interdisciplinary perspective to analyze patient care and outcome data, creating new knowledge that advances the clinical practice of nursing.
Nurse Informaticists
Two Key Areas of Expertise
- Process mapping
- Workflow
The nurses involved in technology decision-making need to leverage two specific type of IT expertise when they evaluate, select, and implement clinical information systems:
Nurse executives and Nurse Informaticists
delineates the actual steps of clinical practice as they occur during the patient care
Process mapping
designs spans the mechanical arrangement of information, forms and triggers to document nursing practice
Workflow
refers to the RN who works in the area of informatics
Informatics Nurse
she / he has experience in the area but no formal informatics preparation
Informatics Nurse
has advanced graduate education in nursing informatics or a related field and may hold ANCC certification
Informatics Nurse Specialist
ANCC
American Nurses
Credentialing Center
PNIA
Philippine Nursing Informatics Association
According to ___________, development training, certification and credentialing programs are in the pipeline for the Philippine Nursing Informatics Association (PNIA).
Sumabat, K. (2010)
future partnerships with local and international nursing and health informatics organizations have started
Future Direction of Nursing Informatics in the Philippines
it is a major thrust to support the use health information standards in the Philippines and to have nursing informatics specialist in every hospital in the country.
Future Direction of Nursing Informatics in the Philippines
Informatics Nurse will include the
following roles
- Ensure proper documentation with the use of technology
- Utilize IT responsibly in health education
- Collaborate with other health professionals with the use of clinical or academe information system
- Use of simulation learning in education
- Educate students about nursing informatics and facilitate learning through the use of ICT Tools
Some Role of Informatics Nurse Specialist in the Philippines
- Research and theory development
- Design information system that work well in the
Philippines - Test human-computer interfaces
- Contribute to Health Informatics Policy
- Champion or advocate for nursing informatics in
the country - Help develop standarized nursing terminology in
the Philippines
Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics (According to ANA 2015) :
Standard 1. Assessment
Standard 2. Diagnosis, Problems and Issues Identification
Standard 3. Outcomes Identification
Standard 4. Planning
Standard 5. Implementation
Standard 6. Evaluation
Standards of Professional Performance for
Nursing Informatics (EEE-QCLC-PRE)
Standard 7. Ethics
Standard 8. Education
Standard 9. Evidence-based Practice and Research
Standard 10. Quality of Practice
Standard 11. Communication
Standard 12. Leadership
Standard 13. Collaboration
Standard 14. Professional Practice Evaluation
Standard 15. Resource Utilization
Standard 16. Environmental Health
The informatics nurse collects comprehensive data, information, and emerging evidence pertinent to the situation
Standard 1. Assessment
Standard 1. Assessment
NINE Competencies:
a. Uses evidence-based assessment techniques and effective communication
b. Uses workflow analyses to examine current practice
c. Conduct a needs analysis to refine the issue
d. Involves the healthcare consumer, family
e. Prioritizes data collection activities
f. Uses analytical models, algorithms
g. Synthesis available data to identify patterns and variances
h. Applies ethical, legal and privacy regulations
i. Documents relevant data in a retrievable format
example of an assessment algorithm
PIECES
Performance
Information
Economics
Control
Efficiency
Service
throughput or response time
Performance
outputs, inputs and stored data
Information
costs versus profits
Economics