1. Nursing Informatics
Utilizing Information Technology to Increase Productivity in Nursing Practice

2. Emmanuel Ijere, MSN, RN-BC
Recent Experience Education Certification Clinical Informatics Specialist at Detroit Medical Center, Detroit MI Master of Science Nursing (MSN)- Nursing Informatics, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN Board Certification-Nursing Informatics from the American Nurse Crediting Center (ANCC)

3. What is Nursing Informatics

4. What is Nursing Informatics
What – What is nursing informatics
When – A little Historical Perspective
Who – Who is the informatics nurse
Where – In what roles do they practice
Why – Why is nursing informatics needed
How – How does nursing informatics increase productivity

5. What-Definition Nursing Informatics
Nursing is a science based on the relationship between the metaparadigm concepts of the nurse, the person, health, and the environment.
Informatics
-The study of information processing
-The collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of recorded knowledge

6. What-Definition Health Informatics - Clinical Informatics
- Biomedical Informatics
- Pharmacy Informatics
- Imaging Informatics
- Public Health Informatics
and so on.

7. What-Definition Nursing Informatics
A combination of computer science, information science and nursing science designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data, information and knowledge to support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care.

8. What-Definition Nursing Informatics
The specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information
management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. NI supports nurses, consumers, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in their decision-making in all roles and settings to achieve desired outcomes. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology

9. What-Definition Nursing Informatics
- Science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide."

10. What-Definition Computer Science
- A branch of science that deals with the theory of computation and the design of computers
- Computer science is the study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the basis for the design and use of computers.

11. What-Definition Information Science
- Information science is that discipline that investigates the properties and behavior of information, the forces governing the flow of information, and the means of processing information for optimum accessibility and usability. It is concerned with the body of knowledge relating to the origination, collection, organization, storage, retrieval, interpretation, transmission, and utilization of information

12. What-Theoretical Framework
DIKW
Data - Discrete measurements (whether numerical or not) with no interpretation or meaning by themselves, that are the smallest components of the framework.
Information - Data with meaning applied to it, in a given context. It is a collection of data that have been interpreted, organized, or structured.
Knowledge - Information that has been synthesized so that relations and interactions are defined and formalized
Wisdom - An appropriate use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems

13. What-DIKW

14. When – Historical Perspective
1950s - use of computers in healthcare, mostly for financial transactions
1970s - First conference on nursing and computers
Informatics papers specific to nursing appear on the national level
1980s - Medical informatics and Nursing Informatics specialty emerges
First graduate program in nursing informatics at University of Maryland
Nursing Informatics first recognized as a specialty for registered nurses by the ANA
First certification exam for nursing informatics

15. Who- Informatics Nurse – Works in and gains experience in the field
Informatics Nurse Specialist – Has an advanced degree in informatics and assumes roles requiring this advanced knowledge
- Both can obtain board certification, but the requirements are different.

16. Who-Levels of Practice

17. Who-Competencies

18. Where-Nursing Informatics Roles
Informatics Nurses work in a variety of settings filling such roles as clinical/system analyst, security analyst, project manager, consultant, educator, researcher, product developer,
entrepreneur.

19. Where-Functional Areas of Nursing Informatics
Administration, leadership and management - either directly with clinical informatics departments or in combination with other functional areas such as serving as project managers
Analysis - using data to synthesize knowledge, inform decision support, and manage outcomes as well as taxonomies
Compliance and integrity management - helping make sure organizations are meeting all the national laws and standards such as HIPAA, FDA, Joint Commission, etc.

20. Where-Functional Areas of Nursing Informatics
Consultation - serving both internally or externally as a resource Coordination, facilitation, and integration - serving as the translator between end-users and IT experts Development - translating user requirements into solutions Education and professional development - ranges from teaching the end-user to use a device or application to educating the next generation of nurses and the general public

21. Where-Functional Areas of Nursing Informatics
Policy development and advocacy - being an advocate for consumers, hospital units, and the institution as a whole; also helping shape policies and standards at the state, national and organizational level Research and evaluation - conducting research in a variety of informatics topics that impacts both caregivers and consumers

22. WHY - Why is Nursing Informatics Important?
- Providing a nursing perspective
- The expanding role of nursing
- Improving care
- Increased burden of chronic conditions and communicable diseases
- Increasing/aging population
- The need to keep pace with advancing technology

23. HOW - How does Nursing Informatics improve Nursing Productivity?
-Improves the nursing workflow and care processes
-Eliminates redundant documentation
-Increases the accuracy and completeness of nursing documentation
-Improves communication among nurses and with other health care providers
-Increases visibility of nursing interventions, improved patient care

24. HOW - How does Nursing Informatics improve Nursing Productivity?
-Automates the collection and reuse of nursing data, to for instance evaluate care outcomes
-Facilitates assessment of nursing competency
-Facilitates adherence to standards of care
-Increases access to nursing resources

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26. References
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