1. Nursing Informatics NI

2. Nursing Nursing is an information intensive profession.
The steps of utilizing information, applying knowledge to a problem, and acting with wisdom form the basis of nursing practice science.
We acquire data and information in bits and pieces and then transform the information into knowledge.

3. Nursing and Knowledge
Nurses are knowledge workers, working with information and generating information and knowledge as a product.
We are knowledge acquirers, providing convenient and efficient means of capturing and storing knowledge.
We are knowledge users, individuals or groups who benefit from valuable, viable knowledge.
Nurses are knowledge engineers, designing, developing, implementing and maintaining knowledge.

4. Nursing and Knowledge
We are knowledge managers, capturing and processing collective expertise and distributing it where it can create the largest benefit.
We are knowledge developers or generators, changing and evolving knowledge based on the tasks at hand and information available.

5. Use of Knowledge
All nurses have the opportunity to be involved in the formal dissemination of knowledge via their participation in professional conferences either as presenters or attendees.
All nurses regardless of the practice arena must use informatics and technology to inform and support that practice.

6. Key Terms Defined Nursing informatics – A specialty that integrates
nursing science,
computer science,
cognitive science, and
information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.

7. Key Terms Defined Nursing informatics –
Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information, and knowledge to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings.

8. First Definition: Nursing Informatics
“The application of computer technology to all fields of nursing—nursing service, nurse education, and nursing research.”
(Scholes and Barber, 1980, p. 70)

9. Definition: Nursing Informatics
Nursing informatics is a combination of nursing science, information science, and computer science to manage and process nursing data, information and knowledge to facilitate the delivery of health care.
(Graves & Corcoran, 1989)

10. Nursing Informatics (cont'd)
Part of the larger field of health care and medical informatics
Mechanism to collect and analyze data from nursing care
Establish and maintain computerized documentation systems

11. Introduction to NI
NI supports consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings.
The goal of NI is to improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals by optimizing information management and communication.

12. Introduction to NI
NI is one example of a discipline-specific informatics practice within the broader category of health informatics.
NI has become well established within nursing since its recognition as a specialty for registered nurses by the American Nurses Association (ANA) in 1992.

13. Sciences Underpinning Nursing Informatics
The combination of sciences creates a unique blend that is greater than the sum of its parts, a unique combination that creates the definitive specialty of NI.

14. Nursing Informatics nursing science computer science
information science
Nursing Informatics

15. Nursing informatics (NI)
nursing science
computer science
information science
Nursing informatics (NI)

16. NI
Wisdom
knowledge
information
Data

17. Use of Wisdom
Wisdom is the application of knowledge to an appropriate situation.
In the practice of nursing science, we expect action and/or actions directed by wisdom.
Wisdom uses knowledge and experience to heighten common sense and insight to exercise sound judgment in practical matters.
It is developed through knowledge, experience, insight and reflection.

18. Nursing Informatics
Nursing Informatics is the "science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide." (IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics 2009). The application of nursing informatics knowledge is empowering for all healthcare practitioners in achieving patient centered care.

19. Strategic Directions for Nursing Informatics
Include informatics in nursing education
Prepare nurses with specialized informatics skills
Enhance nursing practice and education through informatics projects
Increase nursing faculty preparation in informatics
Encourage collaboration

20. Goal of Nursing Informatics
“The goal of nursing informatics is to improve the health of populations, communities, families and individuals by optimizing information management and communication.
This includes the use of technology in the direct provision of care, in establishing effective administrative systems managing and delivering educational experiences, supporting life-long learning and supporting nursing research.”
Source: ANA. (2001, proposed). The Scope of Practice of Nursing Informatics and the Standards of Practice and Professional Performance for the Informatics Nurse Specialist

34. NI future
promises increased saturation of informatics concepts and solutions into mainstream nursing and health care practices.
As informatics solutions become as common a tool as the stethoscope, each nurse may be considered, in part, an informatics nurse.
New materials and concepts will evolve in the future.

35. NI Standards of Practice
Standard I. Identify the Issue or Problem Standard II. Identify Alternatives Standard III. Choose and Develop a Solution Standard IV. Implement the Solution Standard V. Evaluate and Adjust Solutions
Source: ANA. (2001, proposed). The Scope of Practice of Nursing Informatics and the Standards of Practice and Professional Performance for the Informatics Nurse Specialist

36. NI Standards of Professional Performance
Standard I. Quality of Nursing Informatics Practice Standard II. Performance Appraisal Standard III. Education Standard IV. Collegiality [the cooperative relationship of colleagues] Standard V. Ethics Standard VI. Collaboration Standard VII. Research Standards VIII. Resource Utilization Standard IX. Communication
Source: ANA. (2001, proposed). The Scope of Practice of Nursing Informatics and the Standards of Practice and Professional Performance for the Informatics Nurse Specialist

37. Informatics Competencies
Levels of Competency
Beginning Nurse
Experienced Nurse
Informatics Nurse Specialist
Informatics Innovator
Types
Computer Skills
Informatics Knowledge
Informatics Skills

38. Informatics Competencies: Three Areas
Computer Literacy
a set of skills that allow individuals to use computer technology to accomplish tasks.
Informatics Knowledge
a set of cognitive processes that allows the individual to recognize what, when, and where information is needed and to locate, evaluate, and use that information appropriately.
Informatics Skills
the technical ability to use tools and techniques to improve information and knowledge access, integration, management and use.

39. Beginning Nurse: Informatics Competencies
Has basic computer skills
Uses applications
Uses sources of data
Uses technology for care delivery, communication, and decision support
Respects and protects patients’ rights to privacy and confidentiality of information

40. Experienced Nurse: Informatics Competencies
Understands the value of data and information
Uses technology to trend and aggregate individual and population-based patient information for decision support and communication

41. Experienced Nurse: Informatics Competencies
Evaluates quality of information sources
Advocates for technology solutions that improve care delivery

42. NI Competencies
Uses advanced systems and tools to manage, evaluate, integrate, and communicate data, information and knowledge
Assesses current capabilities and limitations of technology and their impact on users and organizations

43. NI Competencies
Manages IT projects across the systems life cycle
Actively seeks to improve the information and knowledge available for clinical decision-making