NURSING

INFORMATICS
HUSSEIN T. SIGANAY, RN, MAN
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 WHAT ABOUT?
American Nurses Association (ANA)
• "is the specialty that integrates nursing
science with multiple information and
analytical sciences to identify, define,
manage and communicate data,
information, knowledge and wisdom
in nursing practice."
American Nurses Association (ANA)
• nursing informatics as integration of nursing science
with information and computer science
⚬ This integration is used in the administration and
communication of information and knowledge in
the nursing profession.
⚬ In providing care for patients, nurses make use of
more information than any other healthcare
professional.
Scholes and Barber (1980)
• coined the term ‘nursing informatics’
defining it as “...the application of
computer technology to all fields of
nursing
⚬ nursing services,
⚬ nurse education, and
⚬ nursing research
International Medical Informatics Association (2009)

• “a science and practice [that] integrates nursing, its

information and knowledge, and their
management, with information and
communication technologies to promote the health
of people, families and communities worldwide
 Francois Gremy

• Informatique Medical - Medical Informatics

⚬ used to describe information and
technologies related to patient care
• Nursing informatics is an emerging field that
continues to rely on the use of information and
technology systems to deliver quality care
 OTHER DEFINITIONS
• Nursing informatics is a more specific • Any use of information by nurses in

term that means the use of providing care for patients,

information technologies that are management of healthcare facilities,

related to carrying out nursing patient education, and nursing

functions education can also be said to be

nursing informatics
• Nursing informatics can also include • It can also include using computer
the use of decision support systems systems to educate patients and
or artificial systems in carrying out students of nursing
nursing functions
• The use of hospital information systems for retrieving,
recording, and updating patient and medical records is part of
nursing informatics
• Nursing informatics uses data management and information
technology approaches to improve patient care practices and
prevent adverse health outcomes
• Nursing informatics allows nurses to deliver evidence-based
and patient-centered care, improve human health and advance
medical research
• It also enhances clinical workflows so that nurses and other
Who can explain this
picture?
 The History of
Nursing Informatics
in Healthcare
The history of nursing informatics
dates back to the 1850s, when
healthcare pioneer Florence
Nightingale originated the practice
by:
• collecting,
• organizing, and
• processing data to enhance
sanitation via nursing and
medical protocols
 • Nursing-specific
engagement with
information technology
started a little over a
century later, in the
1960s

1970
• The first conference on
nursing and computers,
along with the
international publication
of nursing-specific
informatics papers by
American and British
1980s and early 1990s
• creation of the International Medical Informatics
Association (IMIA) Nursing Informatics working group
and the practice-related activity of the International
Council of Nurses (ICN)
⚬ A U.S. newsletter called Computers in Nursing, which
was the forerunner to the journal CIN: Computers,
Informatics, Nursing was founded in 1983
• The formal establishment and
definition of nursing informatics as a
specialty practice by the American
Nurses Association occurred in 1992
⚬ an official certification program for
the field was created
⚬ Since then, there have been
updates to the core content and
requirements for certification to
keep up with continually evolving
theory, practice and technology
TIGER (Technology
Informatics Guiding
Education Reform)
Initiative in 2006

• organized endeavors to
advance informatics
education and workforce
training.
 Nursing Informatics Roles and Requirements

• A master’s degree and

• Experience and/or
• A bachelor’s degree certifications,
strong understanding
in nursing (BSN), at particularly for
of working in a
minimum executive roles (chief
clinical setting
nursing informatics
officer)

• Strong technical skills; • An affinity for

ability to quickly adapt • Strong project
obtaining, analyzing
to emerging technologies management skills
and strategizing
and innovation about data
 Nursing Informatics Roles and Requirements

• Understanding of • Strong interpersonal • Leadership experience

medical economics skills
 PURPOSE OF NURSING
INFORMATICS
The goal of nursing informatics is to help
The optimal use of information and technology
improve the health of individuals, families, and
in nursing involves the establishment of
communities through effective and efficient
efficient systems in lifelong learning, nursing
use of information management and
research, and education
communication
The use of information technology also enables nurses to
Informatics may be the solution to the pending
spend more time with patient care than updating patient
human resource shortage of nursing professionals records
• This focus on information technology provides • By creating more time to focus on healthcare
sufficient support to nurses in their own work consumers, timely access to knowledge and
environments information leads to safer and high-quality patient
 The Benefits of Nursing Informatics

1 Nursing informatics has improved patient safety and facilitated developments that have
revolutionized patient care, thus reducing the risk of adverse outcomes

2 Nurse’s notes from a patient’s hospital stay can be used to create discharge instructions and a
plan for follow-up care, allowing the individual to seamlessly transition from one care setting
to another

3 Nursing informatics improves safety by utilizing technology to facilitate the collection,

analysis and reporting of higher-quality data related to patient safety issues and health
outcomes, as well as to prevent medical errors and allow for better monitoring and reporting
of those that do occur
 The Benefits of Nursing Informatics

4 informatics enables those in leadership roles to design, develop and implement decision support
tools; educate other nurses in the use of these resources; and employ predictive analytics tools
to identify at-risk patients and population groups
 Nursing
Informatics
Careers
 Also known as an informatics nurse, a nurse
informaticist oversees large sets of health data to
advance nursing practice and population health

Nurse These nursing professionals play an important

role in:
Informati • increasing efficiency,
• cutting costs, and i
• mproving care by conducting research on
cist topics affecting both caregivers and patients

Some nurse informaticists practice as clinicians

in addition to their technical job responsibilities,
while others work as analysts and consultants
Other job responsibilities
might include:
• Determining a healthcare organization’s needs and
implementing technology that meets those
requirements

• Designing and delivering training on devices and

applications to health practitioners and patients

• Communicating key data findings to stakeholders to

promote data-driven decision-making in processes and
 Nursing Informatics
Specialist But
role
because the specialist
requires higher
education levels, nurses
with this title usually
The job description
have:
for a nurse • more specialized
informaticist at the Often includes skills,
specialist level is clinical work in • expanded
mostly the same addition to technical responsibilities, and
responsibilities • higher earning
potential
 A nurse informaticist specializing in
Perioperative caring for patients before, during
and after surgical procedures,
Informatics typically from the
admission to the hospital or
patient’s

A perioperative informatics doctor’s office to their discharge

Nurse
nurse also helps put new and
expanded models of care into
practice, improving the In addition to clinical work,
perioperative process they are involved on the
research side of health
information technology (HIT)
 Health Information
Technology
Widespread use of health
IT within the health care
Health information industry will: It is imperative that the
technology (health IT) • improve the quality of privacy and security of
involves the health care, electronic health
processing, storage, • prevent medical errors, information be ensured
and exchange of reduce health care as this information is
health information in costs, increase maintained and
administrative transmitted
an electronic
efficiencies, electronically
environment • decrease paperwork,
and
• expand access to
 Chief Nursing Informatics Officer
• A professional in this role is directly involved in administration, leadership and management within healthcare
organizations

• They work with other health leaders to develop technology solutions and lead critical initiatives related to health I.T.
implementation, maintenance and optimization

• Represents the needs of nurses in strategic discussions with stakeholders like business partners and senior
leadership

• Provides assessments and recommendations for emerging technologies and sharing best practices and insights to
improve internal processes

• Evaluates whether clinical operations effectively meet the needs of patients and clinicians, then identifying areas
for innovation and improvement
 The job description of a CNIO also
includes:
1 Developing and employing health data tools

2 Collecting, analyzing and reporting data related to safety issues and outcomes

3 Developing and overseeing policies and procedures for data analysis

Activity 2 (Group)
• Using a diagram, select one of the following
definitions of Nursing Informatics and discuss
briefly with your groupmates.
• Present your output in no more than 10 minutes.
 THANK YOU AND
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