NU 210: Intro to Nursing Informatics
commitment to EBC
care has advanced beyond our means to remember and integrate all scientific knowledge into the care - need to know how and where to access quality info
institute of medicine
have published reports evaluating needs for informatics to be a part of all health education
Health professional Education: A bridge to Quality
informatics needs to be a part of education for all healthcare professionals -part of institute of medicine
What was the goal for ONC
interoperable electronic health records (EHR)
American Association or College of Nursing (AACN) Essentials
list core competencies for information and healthcare technologies
Nursing informatics
managing nursing information -recognized by the ANA in 1992 as subspecialty of nursing
to provide EBC
must move to electronic records to be able to data mine the information hidden in medical records
clinicians
nurse who use informatics/HIT
Information Technology
using technology to manage information
Dr. Harriet Werley
worked on the first medical information system; insisted ANA make nursing information a priority -first informatics nurse specialist
documentation
can be used to see trends and patterns to improve healthcare -- based on DATA
NI
-combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science to assist in management and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge to support in the practice of nursing and delivery of care -supports consumers, patients, and inter professional healthcare team in their decision making in all roles and settings to achieve desirable outcomes. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information process, and information technology
Dr. Gary Hales
1982: started the first journal about computers: Computers in Nursing
who saw the need for an ongoing access to patient information?
Florence Nightingale
Crossing the Quality Chasm
HIT's importance in improving healthcare; core competencies for Health Professionals
What did Bush establish in 2004
Office of the National coordinator for HIT (ONC)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Studies Nursing improvement tied to technology
interoperable
accessible EHR whenever patient is seen
American Nurse Association
published "standards of practice" and "Scope of practice for Nursing informatics"
Heath resource and Service Administration (HRSA)
published National Informatics Agenda for Education and Practice with 5 recommendations for education
National Center for Nursing Research
published Nursing informatics: enhancing Patient care with 6 program goals for nursing research about informatics
National League of Nurses
published position paper for preparing nurses to work in technology
healthcare informatics/healthcare information technology (HIT)
study of managing information
informatics nurse specialist
trained to make technology more user-friendly for nurses -study how to best collect, sort, and use information