INFORMATICS

What do we need to achieve Nursing Informatics?

• Nursing Science

• Computer Science

• Information science

Why do we need to study Nursing Informatics?

• information is doubling every 5 years, If not tripling in quality and quantity

• Information is Power

• Technology facilitates the creatives process in nurses, affording amazing vehicles for, PATIENT EDUCATION, TEACHING and LEARNING

• provides health promotion and prevention in a Global Scene

What is Nursing Informatics (NI)

• speciality that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice

• supports consumer patients, nurses and other healthcare professionals in their decision-making in all roles and settings to achieve desired outcome. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology.

The evolution of the terms informatics and nursing

informatics proceeded as follows:

1957

Karl Steinbuch

“informatiks”

1962

Phillipe Dreyfus

“informatique”

Walter Bauer

“informatics”

1980

Scholes and Barber

“nursing informatics”

"combining nursing, information, and computer sciences for managing and

processing data into knowledge for use in nursing practice''

Why nursing informatics?

Benefits of Nursing Informatics

Benefit #1:

Nursing Informatics informs and influences IT systems

Why nursing informatics?

Benefits of Nursing Informatics

Benefit #2:

Nursing Informatics leverages evidence-based clinical best practices

• Researching clinical nursing practices outside of their own experiences.

• Finding evidence to prove which clinical practices are best.

• Influencing the design of clinical systems to support and promote the

  best evidence-based practices and workflows (see Benefit #1).

• Training other nurses to use clinical IT systems

Why nursing informatics?

Benefits of Nursing Informatics

Benefit #3:

Nursing Informatics generates stronger nurse training in clinical IT systems

Why nursing informatics?

Benefits of Nursing Informatics

Benefit #4:

Nursing Informatics leverages IT investments

Why nursing informatics?

Benefits of Nursing Informatics

Benefit #5:

Nursing informatics contributes unique wisdom to clinical care that is acquired only through a deep understanding of both clinical practice and data analysis.

Why nursing informatics?

Benefits of Nursing Informatics

Benefit #6:

Nursing Informatics enriches the evolving healthcare delivery system

Why nursing informatics?

Benefits of Nursing Informatics

Benefit #7:

Nursing Informatics Improves Patient Care, Patient Safety, and Outcomes

The nurse informaticists resume is like an

endowment to patients and their families:

• More efficient electronic health records

• Better IT systems

• Research and application of clinical best practices

• Training of other nurses

• Analytics-based predictive models

• New avenues for patient education

• Support for telehealth technology

And how do patients benefit

from nursing informatics?

• Fewer medical errors

• More informed clinical decision-making

• Shorter hospital length of stay

• Lower admission and readmission rates

• Better self-management

Nursing informatics specialist can play a number of important roles, including:

• Managing the transition from paper to digital records.

• Developing information systems based on current evidence-based standards of care

  and ensuring systems remain updated.

• Developing EHR interfaces that are conducive to good care while remaining efficient

  to use.

• Analyzing EHR data to identify areas where care can be improved and/or costs better managed.

• Working with policymakers and government agencies to ensure laws and regulations

  support healthcare technology and are compatible with provider and patient

  technology needs.

• Developing and/or implementing healthcare technologies outside of EHRs, including

  patient health monitoring systems, quality tracking initiative, and home care

  management systems