Question

• In your own words, describe the role of an informatics nurse.
• Explain how an informatics nurse contributes to patient care quality.
• How the development of informatics has helped address the concerns about patient safety raised in the “To Err Is Human” report.
• Summarize how informatics has assisted in improving health care safety in your organization and areas where growth is still needed.

Answer 1

Role of informatics Nurse :

• Informatics nurse can do the leadership as manager or administrator in health facility.
• he/she can analyse the patients condition or related data.
• Integrity and compliance management
• Consultation
• Patient care coordination
• Data integration
• Educational and professional development
• Policy development and advocacy
• Research and evaluation
• Systems integration
• Clinical application support
• Process and workflow design
• Clinical transformation
• Information technology security
• Clinical champion
• User training

Informatic nurse can contribute to patient care quality :

• Analyze both clinical and financial data
• Endorse and facilitate resource and reference access Material protected by copyright
• Deliver nursing content to standardized languages
• Improve continuity of care
• Enhance relationships between providers and patients
• Support cost savings and goals for productivity
• Sustain nursing work processes using technology
• Redesign clinical workflow
• Assist with change management
• Encourage provision of high quality, evidence-based care
• Facilitate true interdisciplinary care

Informatics can assist in improving health care safety in the organization :

• Can identify a need and demand for itself
• Adheres to the overall licensure, certification, and education requirements of the profession
• Defines competencies for the area of specialty nursing practice
• Has existing mechanisms for supporting, reviewing, and disseminating research to support its knowledge base and evidence-based practice
• Has defined educational criteria for specialty preparation or graduate degree
• Has continuing education programs or other mechanisms for nurses in the specialty to maintain competence
• Is practiced nationally or internationally
• Includes a substantial number of registered nurses who devote most of their professional time to the specialty
• Is organized and represented by a national or international specialty association or branch of a parent organization