Reflect on your professional nursing experiences and how informatics has impacted or changed your practice.
Introduction to Health Information Technology Systems and Nursing Informatics
What brought you to the nursing profession and what are your strengths as a nurse? Many times, nurses are called upon to use skills that do not relate to the reasons that made them enter their profession. What is your attitude toward change, especially the increased reliance on technology in health care? Organizations such as TIGER are developing computer competency resources to improve nursing professionals’ understanding of health care informatics. How might nursing informatics and competencies increase quality, patient safety, and job satisfaction?To prepare:
- Review this week’s media presentation, focusing on the benefits and challenges of health informatics.
- Reflect on your professional nursing experiences and how informatics has impacted or changed your practice.
- Examine the TIGER and ANA informatics competencies presented in the Learning Resources. What insights do these give you with regard to:
- How these competencies influence nursing informatics, improve quality of care and patient safety, and promote excellence in nursing practice
- Ways in which nursing practices have changed and/or will change as a result of informatics
- Your personal skills, strengths, and preferences related to informatics
- Potential challenges or areas in which you need to strengthen your capabilities, and at least one strategy for accomplishing professional growth in this area
By Tomorrow 08/29/17, write a minimum of 550 words in APA format with a minimum of 3 references from the list below which include the level one headings as numbered below:
post a cohesive response that addresses the following:
1) Briefly share your nursing background and professional interests. (background: cardiac nurse, critical care, nurse informatics).
2) Summarize how informatics has impacted or changed nursing practice. Provide an example from your professional experience.
3) Evaluate how established informatics competencies influence quality of care, safety improvements, and excellence in nursing practice.
4) Assess your informatics strengths and preferences, as well as potential challenges and areas for development. (Be sure to refer to specific TIGER and ANA competencies.)
5) Describe one strategy for enhancing your informatics skills and competencies.
Required Readings
Course Text: Ball, M. J., Douglas, J. V., Hinton Walker, P., DuLong, D., Gugerty, B., Hannah, K. J., . . . Troseth, M. R. (Eds.) (2011). Nursing informatics: Where technology and caring meet (4th ed.). London, England: Springer-Verlag.
Chapter 1, “Nursing Informatics: Transforming Nursing”
Chapter 12, “The Evolving National Informatics Landscape”
Chapter 1 introduces the need for health care reform by detailing cost concerns and future needs of the nursing profession. A look at the beginning stages of the TIGER collaborative is also given, detailing its start at the 2006 Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Chapter 12 provides an overview of technology’s emergence into the health care industry.
Course Text: American Nurses Association. (2008). Nursing informatics: Scope and standards of practice. Silver Spring, MD: Author.
“Introduction” (pp. 1–2)
“Informatics Competencies” (pp. 33–40)
The 2-page excerpt from the introduction offers a brief description of the field of informatics and presents the rationale for referring to the scope and standards throughout your nursing career. The excerpt from the “Informatics Competencies” section uses research and matrices to correlate informatics competencies with the education and roles of nursing professionals.
Cesnik, B., & Kidd, M. R. (2010). History of health informatics: A global perspective. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 151, 3–8.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
The authors of this article begin by summarizing the rise of computer development and use. They then examine how technology will build the capabilities of future businesses.
Hovenga, E. J., Kidd, M. R., Garde, S., & Hullin Lucay Cossio, C. (2010). Health informatics: An introduction. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 151, 9–15.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
A brief explanation of informatics principles is given in this article.
Ozbolt, J. G., & Saba, V. K. (2008). A brief history of nursing informatics in the United States of America. Nursing Outlook, 56(5), 199–205.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Examine the initiatives and technological developments that have informed the field of informatics by using this article as a guide.
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER). (n.d.). The TIGER Initiative: Informatics competencies for every practicing nurse: Recommendations from the TIGER collaborative. Retrieved from: http://www.mhsinformatics.org/CI-Fellowship/Workforce-Development/Competencies/Tiger.Report_Competencies_final.pdf
For this week, focus on the executive summary and Appendix A, B, and C for review of the TIGER initiative and resulting competencies.
Required Media
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: What is health informatics? Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 13 minutes.
In this week’s media presentation, the presenters discuss the extensive applications, implications, and benefits of health informatics for patients, practitioners, and health care organizations as a whole.
HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community Podcast Series. (Producer). (2009). Episode #15: TIGER initiative – technology informatics guiding education reform. [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://podbay.fm/show/popout.php?id=285132709&e=1246544022
Joyce Sensmeier, vice president of informatics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), presents the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative that is aimed at educating nurses on new digital technologies. This podcast also highlights the organizational accomplishments and future informatics goals of the TIGER initiative.To access the podcast, scroll through the page linked above to find Episode #15.
American Medical Informatics Association. (2011). Video Library 1: Nursing informatics pioneers.
Retrieved from http://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/nursing-informatics/history-project/video-library-1
The AMIA developed a Nursing Informatics History Project, aimed at documenting and preserving the history of nursing informatics. This project consists of two video libraries. Video Library 1 portrays the viewpoints and accomplishments of those recognized as pioneers in the informatics field.
Optional Resources
Gugerty, B. Delaney, C. (August, 2009). Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER). TIGER Informatics Competencies Collaborative (TICC) Final Report. Retrieved from http://tigercompetencies.pbworks.com/f/TICC_Final.pdf
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER). (n.d.). Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing: 3-Year Action Steps toward a 10-Year Vision. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/TIGER.pdf
