Nursing Role & Scope - Week 11 - Informatics in Professional Nursing Practice
Lorraine Melo
Chapter11.pptxInformatics in Professional Nursing Practice
Chapter 11
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Nursing Informatics (NI)
NI is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice.
NI facilitates the integration of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision making in all roles and settings.
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Clinical Informatics
Includes nursing as well as other medical and health specialties and addresses the use of information systems in patient care
Domains of clinical informatics include the 3 areas of health systems, clinical care, and information and communication technologies
Informatics Versus Health Informatics
Health informatics encompasses the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, adoption, and application of IT-based innovations in healthcare services delivery, management, and planning.
Informatics is the science of collecting, managing, and retrieving information.
The Impact of Legislation on Health Informatics
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
Nursing Informatics Competencies
AACN Essentials
QSEN Competencies
Nurse of the Future: Nursing Core Competencies
TIGER Competencies
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Basic Computer Competencies (1 of 2)
Basic computer competencies include understanding the concepts of information and communication technology, possessing skill in the use of a computer and managing files, word processing, working with spreadsheets, using databases, creating presentations, web browsing, and communicating.
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Basic Computer Competencies (2 of 2)
Web browsing
Communication
Listserv groups and mailing lists
Social media
Telehealth
ANA Principles for Social Networking (1 of 2)
Nurses must not transmit or place online individually identifiable patient information.
Nurses must observe ethically prescribed professional patient−nurse boundaries.
Nurses should understand that patients, colleagues, institutions, and employers may view postings.
ANA Principles for Social Networking (2 of 2)
Nurses should take advantage of privacy settings and seek to separate personal and professional information online.
Nurses should bring content that could harm a patient’s privacy, rights, or welfare to the attention of appropriate authorities.
Nurses should participate in developing institutional policies governing online contact.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s Social Media Guidelines for Nurses Video
Information Literacy: Electronic Databases
CINAHL
MEDLINE
ERIC
PsycINFO
Cochrane Library
Health Source
Nursing/Academic Edition
Google Scholar
Information Literacy: Website Evaluation
Accuracy
Authority or source
Objectivity
Currency or timeliness
Coverage or quality
Usability
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Information Literacy: Health Information Online (HONcode)
Authoritative
Complementarity
Privacy
Attribution
Justifiability
Transparency
Financial disclosure
Advertising policy
Information Management
Electronic health record (EHR)
Clinical decision support system (CDSS)
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
Barcode medication administration (BCMA)
Admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) systems
Handheld devices
Current and Future Trends
Hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) program and HITECH incentive programs linking data and EHR meaningful use to fiscal reimbursement in order to move the healthcare system toward quality and safety
