Leadership Role of the Nurse in the Management of Nursing Information System

Flashcards about the leadership role of nurses in managing nursing information systems.

A deep well of healthcare information technology (HIT) expertise helps nurses understand the interplay of nursing and outcome data inside the health care organization and beyond.

Why is HIT expertise important for nurse executives?

The role of the nurse executive in information technology decision-making, flawed thinking, technology’s life cycle, multilayered decision making and nurse informaticist role.

What topics are covered in the discussion of the nurse's leadership role in managing nursing information systems?

Nurses feel the impact of technology decisions faster and more often than other user populations in the healthcare organization.

Who feels the impact of technology decisions the most in healthcare organizations?

Data transformed into information and further transformed into knowledge assists healthcare staff in making knowledge-based decisions.

How does data transformation assist healthcare staff?

Every patient care decision can have a life-and-death implication.

Why is data-driven decision-making so important in healthcare?

Nurse executives often view technology-related decision-making as an episodic responsibility that takes place once every seven to 10 years, when major HIT systems are replaced.

What is a common flawed thinking among nurse executives regarding technology decision-making?

The speed with which nursing data needs to be communicated, and its inherent criticality, can transform the inevitable glitches in new technology introduction into minefields for patient care that reach far beyond the organizational boundaries of nursing.

Why can a small decision in HIT have a large impact, especially in nursing?

Planning, procurement, deployment, management, support, and disposition.

What are the six distinct phases in the lifecycle of every technology investment?

What is a key driver of technology obsolescence according to the text?

Technology providers worldwide require engineers to design obsolescence into their systems to ensure ongoing market demand, protect market share, and preserve revenue streams.

A technical product or service is no longer needed or wanted even though it could still be in working order.

What is Technological Obsolescence?

When the consumer makes some value judgement regarding its continued consumption, often following a comparison with other available products.

What is Relative obsolescence?

Nursing informatics (NI) supports the decision-making of patients, nurses, and other providers in all roles and settings through the use of information structures, processes, and technology.

How does Nursing Informatics support decision-making in healthcare?

Cultural, economic, social, and physical requirements.

What elements are included in Nursing-centric technology decisions?

Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Systems Research Organizing (SRO) Model

What are the 2 component models of The Informatics Research Organizing Model ?

Clinical nursing, information technology, and research.

What three disciplines comprise the highly specialized knowledge of Nurse Informaticists (NIs)?

Leadership, analysis, integrity and compliance management, consultation, patient care coordination, data integration, educational and professional development, policy development and advocacy, research and evaluation, systems integration, process and workflow design, clinical transformation, information technology security, clinical champion, and user training.

What are the roles of a Nurse Informaticist?

Process mapping delineates the actual steps of clinical practice as they occur during patient care while workflow design spans the mechanical arrangement of information, forms, and triggers to document nursing practice.

What is the difference between Process mapping and Workflow design?

The growing number of security threats in healthcare, particularly against EHRs, has led to concerns regarding security of personal and financial information.

Why is information technology security an essential topic in nursing informatics?