This document discusses the field of nursing informatics and the role of nursing leaders in advancing it. It provides background on nursing informatics, noting that it combines nursing, information science, and computer science. It describes how nursing informatics can help improve various aspects of nursing practice, patient care, and communication. The document stresses that nursing leaders must advocate for nursing informatics, ensure ongoing education and training on informatics, and promote research in the field to help establish it as a specialty and help nurses utilize technology.

1. Presented By
Raminder Kalra

2.  The building blocks of nursing
informatics specialty are nursing,
information and computer
sciences.
 These three combined provide the
knowledge base of nursing
informatics.

3.  Expanded roles and technology
are being incorporated into
the domain of nursing informatics.
 Nursing leaders in all areas
including research, education and
administration have a big role to
play in ensuring that nursing
informatics is embraced by all
nurses.

4.  Nursing leaders in all areas including
research, education and
administration have a big role to
play in ensuring that nursing
informatics is embraced by all
nurses.

5.  Studies estimate that nurses spend as
little as 15 percent of their time on
direct patient care. As much as half
goes to documentation.
 Patient care is an interdisciplinary
process requiring an interdisciplinary
approach to documentation, data
collection and analysis.

6.  Busy physicians and busy nurses
might not remember or have
time to read each other's notes.
 Single-entry data sets can save
staff time

7.  A science that combines a domain science,
computer science, information science and
cognitive science.
 Information science is the study of the processing,
management, and retrieval of information

8.  In 1980, Scholes and Barber applied this
new term to the art and science of
nursing, coining the term, “nursing
informatics”, which they defined as
“...the application of computer
technology to all fields of nursing--
nursing services, nurse education, and
nursing research”.

9.  Integration of healthcare sciences, computer
science, information science, and cognitive
science to assist in the management of
healthcare information.
Health informatics have subdomains such as
medical informatics, dental informatics,
pharmacy informatics, nursing informatics, etc.

10. It has important influence on the
role of the nurse administrator.
Nurses and nurse managers handle
large amount of data during any
given day.

11. It helps in
Strategic and systems planning
Implementation of clinical nursing
systems
Monitoring and evaluation of clinical
and budgetary outcomes.
Cost control

12. Patient classification
Financial management
Linking patient classification data
Calculating staffing requirements

13. Educating nurses
Reducing the burden of paper
work as well as improve the
communication.

14. Providing decision support tools.
Keeping the records (Availability of
information when and where
needed).
Eliminating multiple entries of the
same data

15. Making nursing care visible
Increasing the productivity of nurses
Providing evidence-based practice
data to a budget methodology

16. Checking Bedside Data Entry
(medication record etc.)
Client Monitoring- Local and Distant
Tele-nursing
Practice Management
Duty scheduling

17. Wireless technology will have a growing role.
Wireless LANs and PDAs allow documentation
during encounters.
 Electronic bulletin boards, calendar filings
and email enable rapid communication of
nursing administrators with staff, nursing
managers and support departments.

18. With the right nursing informatics
background and training, nurse
administrators can play a major role in
accreditation and compliance--such as
assisting in implementing standards

19.  To improve the health of populations,
communities, families and individuals by
optimizing information, management and
communication. It includes the use of IT in
 the direct provision of care
 establishing effective administration systems
 managing and delivering educational
experiences
 supporting lifelong learning and in supporting
nursing research

20. Prevent nurses from making
medication errors.
Help nurses easily interpret orders
from physician in the management
of a patient.
Better collaboration and sharing of
patient information with other
health care providers

21. Better assessments and monitoring
of patients diseases and ailments.
Helps nurses utilize research to
provide evidence based care.
 Helps nurses work faster, smarter
and more competent in whatever
they do.

22.  Must play the role of advocates for
nursing informatics.
Advocacy is about influencing people,
policies, practices, structures and
systems in order to bring about
change

23. Need to communicate clearly and
concisely and to structure their
message to fit both the situation and
the intended audience (for eg.
nursing students or practicing
nurses).
Should be comfortable in
communicating in verbal, written,
and electronic formats.

24.  Must be able to influence others to action.
Influence is the ability to alter or sway an
individual's or group's thoughts, beliefs, or
actions;
 Influence is built on competence, credibility,
and trustworthiness hence all nurse leaders
in education, administration and even in
practice should be computer literate and
have basic competencies of nursing
informatics for them to influence others.

25.  Must establish positive, collaborative
relationships with others to garner the
support necessary to address the issue of
nursing informatics.
 Successful collaboration requires careful
communication with the groups involved in
the process, seeking input when appropriate,
and providing ongoing reports related to
progress on achieving the goal.

26.  Ensure a continuing education programme
 Training of nurses on the use of computers,
their application programmes
 Sourcing information for research and
application to patient care purposes.
 Nurses need consistent training to feel
comfortable with the use of Information
technology in their everyday practice.

27.  Informatics competencies need to
be developed in all three levels of
expertise through basic and
continuing nursing education
programs.

28.  Promote Research in Nursing
Informatics
 Research in nursing is necessary for
the development of nursing practice
since nursing informatics is a new
specialty.

29. Computerized record keeping.
 Computerized assisted instruction.
Interactive video technology (Tele-nursing).
Distance learning - web based
courses and degree programmes.
Teaching and presentations.

30.  Nurses spend a significant proportion of their
time on information related activities as part
of clinical decision making in order to lead,
co-ordinate and support the delivery of safe,
effective, person centered care.
 In order to provide high quality care for
patients, nurses need up-to-date, accurate,
relevant information about the person and
access to the latest evidence or best practice
at the point of care delivery.

31.  The ultimate goal of nursing informatics is to
use technology to bring critical information
to the point of care to increase efficiency
and make healthcare safer and more
effective.
 Much work is still needed to educate nurses
in informatics competencies so that
technology can be embraced as a tool in
everyday practice.