Assignment: Nursing Informatics Knowledge
Assignment: Nursing Informatics Knowledge
Assignment: Nursing Informatics Knowledge
Week 8 discussion Reflective and Projected Practice Prior to posting, complete the Week 8 AACN Essentials Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Compare your scores from Week 1 to Week 8. How far have you come? How will you use evidence to further improve your nursing informatics knowledge during the next two years of practice?
Nursing Informatics is the “science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide.” (adapted from IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics 2009). The application of nursing informatics knowledge is empowering for all healthcare practitioners in achieving patient centered care.
Nurse informaticians work as developers of communication and information technologies, educators, researchers, chief nursing officers, chief information officers, software engineers, implementation consultants, policy developers, and business owners, to advance healthcare. Core areas of work include:
Concept representation and standards to support evidence-based practice, research, and education
Data and communication standards to build an interoperable national data infrastructure
Research methodologies to disseminate new knowledge into practice
Information presentation and retrieval approaches to support safe patient centered care
Information and communication technologies to address inter-professional work flow needs across all care venues
Vision and management for the development, design, and implementation of communication and information technology
Definition of healthcare policy to advance the public’s health
AMIA’s Nursing Informatics Working Group serves as the United States’ representative to the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group.
