NURSING
INFORMATICS
BENEFITS OF NURSING INFORMATICS IN
HEALTHCARE
Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs and
influences IT systems
• Nursing informatics specialists spend much
of their time helping to develop,
implementand optimized computerized patient
information system.
• It’s their blend of clinical and technical
knowledge and experience that makes them
perfect liaisons between the clinical and
technical communities.
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs
and influences IT systems
• One of the early contributions of nursing
informatics was to help move healthcare
away from paper forms and into
electronic documentation.
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs
and influences IT systems
• Today, a nurse’s standardized notes are
immediately available to physicians and
other caregivers thru EHR systems.
• Workflows and decisions are more
informed and efficient.
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs
and influences IT systems
• Many EHR vendors recognized the value
of hiring nurse informaticists to help
design and build their system.
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs
and influences IT systems
• EHR vendors acquired a double-barreled
secret weapon because nurse
informaticists :
• A. Recommend the most practical layout of
forms and reports, and the best processes
for electronic medication administration
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs
and influences IT systems
• B. Prevent EHR mutiny because they can
predict clinician reactions to technically
efficient-but clinically clumsy -
workflows, and shape EHRs that avoid
these poor workflows
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs and
influences IT systems
• Nursing informatics specialists are trilingual.
1. They understand the clinical language of
efficient patient care.
2. They translate knowledge and clinician
feedback into thetechnical language of business
analysts and programmers.
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs
and influences IT systems
• Nursing informatics specialists are
trilingual.
3. They communicate clinical and technical
matters with administrative leadership.
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs and
influences IT systems
• Its not simple to speak effectively with clinical,
technical, and administrative people.
• Still, nursing informatics specialists are
qualified and have proven to be indispensable
to the development of superior healthcare IT
systems.
• Benefit#1: Nursing Informatics informs and
influences IT systems
• “Informatics professionals with a nursing background
combine the best of both worlds: deep expertise in
clinical care helps nurse informaticists understand the
needs and stresses of the clinical workflow, while their
education and background with information
technology systems and data analytics helps them
sculpt health IT infrastructure into a meaningful and
helpful tool.”
• Benefit #2: Nursing Informatics
leverages evidence-based clinical best
practices
• Most clinicians want to apply their
knowledge and experience to improve
patient care.
• Benefit #2: Nursing Informatics leverages
evidence-based clinical best practices
The nurse informaticist takes it a few steps
further by:
1. Researching clinical nursing practices outside
of their own experiences.
2. Finding evidence to prove which clinical
practices are best.
• Benefit #2: Nursing Informatics leverages
evidence-based clinical best practices
The nurse informaticist takes it a few steps
further by:
3. Influencing the design of clinical systems to
support and promote the best evidence based
practices and workflows.
4. Training other nurses to use clinical IT
systems.
• Benefit #3: Nursing Informatics
generates stronger nurse training in
clinical IT systems
• Clinical IT systems are complicated, and
their interfaces and workflows are not
always intuitive.
• But nursing informatics specialists are
well-suited to teach other nurses how to
get the full benefits of these systems.
• Benefit #3: Nursing Informatics generates
stronger nurse training in clinical IT systems
• Because in some cases, nurse informaticists
helped design and create those very systems.
But.. the very least , they understand the
reasons, from a nursing care perspective, for the
structure of each digital form and reach
sequence of clicks.
• They can explain built-in interoperability and
behind-the-scenes interfaces to other clinical
systems in language that’s easily understood by
nurses.
• Benefit #4: Nursing Informatics leverages IT
investments
• Every health facility - from the single-physician
practice to the large academic medical center
invests a significant amount of their budget on
essential health information technology- and
services.
• These include patient care systems like the
PACS and electronic medical records system,
communication technologies like pagers and
secure messaging systems, and analytics tools.
• Benefit #4: Nursing Informatics
leverages IT investments
• Nurse informaticists help get maximum
value from these investments in at least
three ways:
• 1. They ensure that systems are designed
to support effective patient care workflow
• 2. They help train other nurses to use IT
efficiently
• Benefit #4: Nursing Informatics leverages IT
investments
• Nurse informaticists help get maximum value
from these investments in at least three ways:
3. They apply advanced analytics strategies to
develop predictive models.
• As an example of predictive models, consider
Texas Health Resources in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Their informatics nurses use analytics tools to
identify the risk of sepsis, risk ofreadmission,
and potential benefit from palliative care.
• Benefit #5: Nursing informatics
contributes unique wisdom to clinical
care that is acquired through a deep
understanding of both clinical practice
and data analysis
• “Informatics nurse specialists work with
leadership regarding regulatory and
quality initiatives and governance for
technology implementation and change.
For example, they work with the delivery-
of-care team
• Benefit #5:
• The chief nursing officer, chief medical
officer, and quality' leadership who might
give us a directive based on improving
patient safety by decreasing readmission's.
• Informatics nurse specialists identify the
key areas where studies identify where
problems arise inadequate discharge
education, a patient doesn't have support at
home, poor hearing or sight- or being on
multiple medications.
• Benefit #5:
• They’ll take those variables and identify how
and wherein the system they should alert a
nurse that this is a possible red flag and give her
the elements of a plan to decrease the risk for a
readmit.
• They explain to the technicaland application
team what nurses need the system to do.
• Benefit #5:
• They build it, and the nurses validate the
build. Then nurses go back to clinical
leadership and demonstrate what was
designed and built.
• Benefit #5:
• Because nurse informacists understand
data analysis and nursing practice, they
immediately know which trends are worth
analyzing ,and which anomalies are
significant enough to escalate.
• Benefit #6: Nursing informatics
enriches the evolving healthcare
delivery system
• Advances in healthcare technology launch
new options for healthcare delivery, and
nurse informatics specialistsare helping
ensure these new options are beneficial to
both patients and clinicians
• Benefit #6: Nursing informatics
enriches the evolving healthcare
delivery system
• Two examples are developments in
communication technology and
remote healthcare, known as
telehealth.
• Benefit #6:
• Regarding communication
technology, vendors are using
Smartphones to transform the way
communication in nursing happens.
• Benefit #6:
• Advanced applications - from secure
messaging to EHR integrations that push
critical results to a physician’s phone just
seconds after the results hit the EHR -
are dramatically improving the efficiency
of healthcare delivery.
• Benefit #6:
• Regarding the growing field of telehealth,
patients are receiving education and self-
management training, automatically
storing and forwarding medical data, and
seeing their providers - from the other side
of town, or the other side of the world.
• Benefit #6:
• And nurse informatics specialists are
helping design and implement
telehealth systems, as well as training
their fellow nurses in how best to use
the systems.
• Benefit #7: Nursing Informatics
Improves Patient Care, Patient Safety,
and Outcomes
The more generalized field of healthcare
informatics focuses mainly on
administrative issues, whereas nursing
informaticsfocuses on patient care.
• Benefit #7: Nursing Informatics
Improves Patient Care, Patient
Safety, and Outcomes
• In fact, the substance of the first six
benefits of nursing informatics is all
about improving care, safety, and
outcomes for patients.
• Benefit #7:
• The nurse informaticists resume is like an
endowment to patients and their families:
• More efficient electronic health records
• Better IT systems
• Research and application of clinical best
practices
• Benefit #7:
• The nurse informaticists resume is like an
endowment to patients and their families:
• Training of other nurses
• Analytics-based predictive models
• New avenues for patient education
• Support for telehealth technology
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NI?
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• Fewer medical errors
• More informed clinical decision-
making
• Shorter hospital length of stay
• Lower admission and readmission rates
• Better self-management
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• Application of informatics as an
enabling mechanism that improves
operational tasks towards enriched
jobs, increased job satisfaction, and
enhanced quality centric customer
service both in the hospital and in the
academe
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is strongly supported by Locsin’s
Technological Competency as Caring
in Nursing: A Model.” Locsin, R.
articulates that:
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(1)“Technological Competency as
Caring in Nursing” is illustrated in the
practice of nursing grounded in the
harmonious coexistence between
technology and caring in nursing
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Assumptions of the theory include the
following among others:
• Technology is used to know wholeness
of persons moment to moment
• “Nurses value technological
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competency as an expression of
caring in nursing” (Locsin, 2013).
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(2) Dimensions of Technological Value
in the Theory
• Technology as completing human
beings to re-formulate the ideal human
being such as m replacement parts, both
mechanical (prostheses) or organic
(transplantation of
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Organs.
• Technology as machine
technologies, e.g., computers and
gadgets enhancing nursing activities to
provide quality patient care such as
Penelope or Da Vinci in the Operating
theaters.
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• Technologies that mimic human
beings and human activities to meet
the demands of nursing care practices,
e.g., cyborgs (cybernetic organisms)
or anthropomorphic machines and
robots such as nursebots
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(3) Technological Competency as
Caring in Nursing
• Technological competency as
Caring in nursing is the
harmonious coexistence between
technologies and caring in
nursing.
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• The harmonization of these
concept can co-exist
• Technology brings the patient
closer to the nurse. Conversely,
technology can also increase the
gap between the nurse and
nursed
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IN CAPSULE: Locsin’s
“Technological Competency as
Caring in Nursing Nursing: A Model
for Practice”
Dr. Locsin middle-range nursing
theory is an interesting discussion of
the correlation between hands on
patient care
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and the use of technology.
Technology is defined as
anything that makes things
efficient- from diagnostic
technologies to therapeutic
practices familiar to all nurses.
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Specifically, he discusses the
importance of understanding the need
of knowing “high-tech” instruments
e.g monitors, implants, and devices
that are a part of patient care as these
will provide opportunities for the
nurse to know the patient
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fully as person.
Nurses use and encounter
technology in nearly every aspect
of their profession. What does it
mean to be technologically
competent? What does it mean to
be a caring nurse? How does
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technology support nursing work?
How does it hinder nursing work?
How can nurses care for their patients
as technological advancements are
introduced nearly every day?
Technological competency as Caring
in Nursing: A Model
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for Practice provides insight and
answers into how nurses can express
their nursing by being
technologically competent. As such,
Locsin sustains the understanding
that being technological competent
is being caring.
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Dr. Locsin’s work is obviously
guided by the question asked by
thoughtful nurses everywhere: How
can I satisfactorily reconcile the idea
of competent use of technology with
the idea of caring in nursing? His
theory significantly
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describes a practical understanding
of the solution enriching the
practice value of all of the general
theories of nursing which are
grounded in caring. Technological
competency as caring in nursing
informs nursing as a
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critical process of knowing
person’s wholeness. Dr. Locsin’s
theory book explores, clarifies, and
advances the conception of
technological competency as
caring in nursing. His theory is
essential to modelling a practice of
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(nursing from the perspective of
caring. It is a practical
illumination of excellent
nursing in a technological
aspect.
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