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

Nursing Informatics Leadership

is defined as encompassing nursing leadership qualities in addition to engaging in interdisciplinary work to identify, implement, use, and evaluate health informatics technologies.

Flawed Thinking

• Most nurse executives view technology-related decision-making.

• Technology selections and deployments

• Financial reimbursement

PPDMSDO

• Planning

• Procurement

• Deployment

• Management

• Support

• Disposition

• Only to cycle back to planning

Technology’s Lifecycle

• Cultural

• Economic

• Social

• Physical Requirements

Multilayered decision-making

Nurse Informaticist Role

evaluate, select, and deploy these advanced technologies requires one of two things

(1) Either a deep personal and nursing-centric knowledge of technology

(2) Or access to that knowledge, which is resident in a technology expert

• Process Mapping

• Workflow Design

Two Key Areas of Expertise:

• Nurse executives and NIs involved in technology decision making need to leverage two specific type of IT expertise when they evaluate, select, and implement clinical information systems

Standardization Lacking

essential to nurse executives’ evaluation and selection of clinical information systems

Nurse Executives Marginalized

Nurse Executives; Functional Level

• the _________ found their review responsibilities limited to the ______; that is, looking at the systems’ features, rather than their ability to advance nursing practice

• _______ explained that CMO-led physician contingents regularly dominated IT decision making, relegating _________ to a “specifier/ recommender” role

• Societal and Technological Trends

• Ethical and legal issues

NEW FRONTIER: SOCIAL MEDIA

• Nurse executives’ awareness of _________, issues, and new developments as they relate to the clinical practice of nursing.

• Nurse executives’ awareness of__________ related to client data, information, and confidentiality