Nursing informatics overview mod 1

• Nurses are major stakeholders in healthcare.
• Information Science is a science and practice dealing with the effective collection, storage, retrieval, and use of information.
• Nursing informatics, defined in the mid-1980s by Blum, is the combination of nursing, information, and computer sciences for managing and processing data into knowledge for use in nursing practice.
• Nursing informatics became well established in the 1990s when it was recognized as a specialty.
• Nursing informatics represents nursing data, information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW).
• Nursing informatics in the Philippines was unfamiliar until the year 2008.
• In 2008, Nursing Informatics was introduced as a course in the undergraduate program which was revised and included as Health Informatics course in CHED memorandum 2009 which is implemented in the summer of 2010.
• Benefits of Nursing informatics in healthcare include informing and influencing IT systems, leveraging evidence-based clinical best practices, generating stronger nurse training in clinical IT systems, leveraging IT investments, contributing unique wisdom to clinical care that is acquired through a deep understanding of clinical practice and data analysis, enriching the evolving healthcare delivery system (telehealth and communication technology), and improving patient care, patient safety, and outcomes.
• Nursing informaticists can recommend the most practical layout for forms and reports and best processes for electronic medication administration.
• Nursing informaticists are trilingual as they understand clinical language of efficient care, translate knowledge into technical language of business analysts and programmers, and communicate both clinical and technical matters with administrative leadership.
• Benefits of patients from Nursing informatics include fewer med errors, more informed clinical decision making, shorter hospital length of stay, lower admission and readmission rate, better self management, and increased coordination.
• Nursing clinical information system incorporates the principles of nursing informatics to support the work that nurses do by facilitating documentation of nursing process activities.
• Two designs of nursing clinical information system are protocol or critical pathway design and disk operating system (DOS).
• Nursing informatics provides a nursing perspective, illuminates nursing values and beliefs, denotes a practice base for nurses in health informatics, and produces unique knowledge.
• Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.
• In the 1980s, nursing informatics was defined as the combination of nursing, information, and computer sciences for managing and processing data into knowledge for use in nursing practice.
• In 1994, the American Nurses Association (ANA) began developing a statement to describe and define the scope of nursing informatics.
• The ANA description of Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.
• The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) defines Nursing informatics as a specialty 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.
• Staggers and Thompson propose that Nursing informatics aims to improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals by optimizing information management and communication.
• Individuals in Nursing informatics include patients/healthcare consumers and any other recipient of nursing care/informatics solutions.
• A patient in Nursing informatics is defined as a consumer in both a wellness and illness model.
• Benefits of patients from NI include fewer medical errors, more informed clinical decision making, shorter hospital length of stay, lower admission and readmission rate, and better self-management.
• Informatic is transforming healthcare through dramatic savings, shared knowledge, patient participation, impersonalization of care, increased coordination, and improved outcomes.