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This document provides an overview of nursing informatics, including its evolution and definitions. Nursing informatics integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data and knowledge in nursing practice. It aims to improve health outcomes by optimizing information management and communication. Informatics solutions support evidence-based nursing and help identify issues like medication errors through data analysis.

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This document provides an overview of nursing informatics, including its evolution and definitions. Nursing informatics integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data and knowledge in nursing practice. It aims to improve health outcomes by optimizing information management and communication. Informatics solutions support evidence-based nursing and help identify issues like medication errors through data analysis.

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NURSING

INFORMATICS
INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATICS

• We are in digital age. What does this


mean to us as nurses?
• The convergence of the
telecommunications and computer
industry has seen pervasive increase in
how we communicate and process
information.
INTRODUCTION
• Integrated systems support
evidence-based nursing practice
• facilitate nurses participation in
the health care team and document
nurses contribution to patient care
outcomes.
NURSING INFORMATICS
AN OVERVIEW
The evolution of the terms informatics
and nursing informatics as follows:
• In 1957 – first coined by Karl
Steinbuch as “informatics”
• In 1962 Philippe Dreyfus used the term
“informatique” ; Walter Bauer translated
it into “informatics”
NURSING INFORMATICS
AN OVERVIEW
• In 1980 Scholes and Barber coined
the term “nursing informatics”
NURSING INFORMATICS
AN OVERVIEW
• The term nursing informatics was
initially seen in literature in the
1960’s, including a definition of
“combining nursing, information and
computer sciences for managing and
processing data into knowledge for
use in nursing practice”
NURSING INFORMATICS
AN OVERVIEW
• In 1994, The American
Nurses Association (ANA)
began developing a statement
to describe and define the
scope of nursing informatics.
NURSING INFORMATICS
AN OVERVIEW
• The meaning of nursing informatics
has evolved and been refined with
the American Nurses Association
definition stated as “ a specialty that
integrates nursing science, computer
science and information science to
manage and communicate data,
information, knowledge and wisdom
in nursing practice”
NURSING INFORMATICS

• Another definition of nursing informatics comes


from the American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA), which states — “Nursing
Informatics science and practice integrates
nursing. Its information and knowledge and their
management, with information and
communication technologies to promote the
health of people, families and communities
worldwide.”
NURSING INFORMATICS
• The Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
defines nursing informatics as "a specialty
that integrates nursing science, computer
science, and information science to manage
and communicate data, information,
Knowledge, and wisdom in nursing
practice.“
NURSING INFORMATICS

• Informatics is becoming increasingly


present in our profession due to
rapidly changing technologic
advances.
NURSING INFORMATICS

• Healthcare systems are assimilating


technology into daily practice at a
quick pace.
• Security and patient privacy must be
upheld while achieving the goal of
transforming data into useful
knowledge.
NURSING INFORMATICS
Integrating informatics with
evidenced-based practice (EBP) can
only help improve the care we provide
to our patients.
NURSING INFORMATICS

• applying technology to knowledge


may help potential problems earlier.
• For example, with the use of
electronic documentation, identifying
changes in patient status can occur
quicklybecause the information is
readily available.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• Trending of patient vital signs is
always accessible, and data are
interpreted, systematized, and
arranged.
• The nurse is able to use this
knowledge to formalize an
appropriate plan of action.
NURSING INFORMATICS

• Standardizing nursing language will


facilitate acceptance of new methods of
documentation in the electronic health
record.
• A template for nursing notes is one
method of assisting with our daily
workload.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• The use of a template can remind nurses
of important information required in the
documentation of patient care.
• Research studies, patient care data, and
national and local standards are used to
develop informatics programs at
healthcare organizations.
NURSING INFORMATICS

Other measures include return on


investment analysis, patient
preferences and/or needs, and
infection control data.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• How's the need for technology addressed?
• For example, a high rate of medication errors
is identified.
• Analysis of how and why the errors are
occurring must be conducted.
• The research can include collecting data from
other facilities in the area to determine if the
same problem exists elsewhere.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• Following data collection, the
findings are presented to a review
board.
• A plan to improve the problem is
implemented, such as the use of bar
code scanners.
NURSING INFORMATICS

• Data collection continues to determine if


implementation is successful.
• The most important piece of
implementation is presentation of the
evidenceto staff to identify how the
change will improve actions of nurses.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• Staggers and Thompson (2002)
believed that there were too many
definitions for Nursing informatics
(NI), which was causing the specialty
to grow without a solid foundation.
NURSING INFORMATICS

• They believed that without this


foundation it was difficult to build a
solid informatics practice or the
needed educational base for this
specialty practice. Staggers and
Thompson performed a critical
NURSING INFORMATICS

The new definition is as follows:


The goal of NI is to improve the
health of populations, communities,
families, and individuals by
optimizing information management
and communication.( Staggers and
Thompson )
NURSING INFORMATICS
• These activities include the design and use of
informatics solutions and/or technology to support
all areas of nursing, including, but not limited to:
1. the direct provision of care,
2. establishing effective administrative systems,
3. designing useful decisionsupport systems,
4. managing and delivering educational
experiences,
5. enhancing supporting life- long learning, and
6. supporting nursing research.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• The term individual refer to patients,
healthcare consumers and any other
recipient of nursing care or informatics
solutions.
• The term patient refers to consumers
in both a wellness and illness model.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• NI is one example of a discipline-
specific informatics practice within
the broader category of health
informatics.
• NI has become well established within
nursing since its recognition as a
specialty forregistered nurses by the
American Nurses Association (ANA)
in 1992.
NURSING INFORMATICS
• It focuses on the representation of
nursing data, information, knowledge
and wisdom as well as the
management and communication of
nursing information within the broader
context of health informatics
• DIKW

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