Informatics and Nursing Profession
Nursing Role
Nursing Education
Future of Nursing Informatics
Potpourri
100
Using technology and information to help support nursing practice through all aspects of the profession
What is nursing informatics?
100
A person that collects clinical data and documents their findings
What is a data gatherer?
100
Learning on the internet that is accessed through the computer
What is E-learning?
100
A vision or process that an organization uses to determine what its future looks like
What is strategic thinking?
100
The ability to use health information to make informed decisions regarding care
What is health literacy?
200
A Bachelor's degree in nursing or relevant field
What is the minimum degree needed to be credentialed in informatics?
200
Tracking routine patient care on the computer such as vital signs, patient positioning, and other data sets
What is routine patient documentation?
200
The use of audio,visuals, or text to create interactive and class-room like experience
What is distance learning?
200
The transformation of nursing roles, responsibilities, and career trajectories.
What is the integration of nursing informatics?
200
The decrease in privacy and security of personal and health information
What are consumer education issues?
300
The ability to instantly check for drug interactions and dosages to ensure medications are safely administered
What is medication safety?
300
Nurse that is expected to fully integrate informatics throughout the course of his/her practice, and not just basic data entry and retrieval
What is an experienced nurse?
300
Learning tools that enable students to listen to a lecture on an Ipod or mp3 player
What are podcasts?
300
The website database where one can apply for health insurance
What is ehealth.com?
300
The league that called for nursing education reform that will ensure every nurse graduate shows computer and information literacy
What is the National League for Nursing?
400
A list of interventions and checks that a nurse has to perform for each patient
What are work lists?
400
The person who has received certification in the specialty of nursing informatics
What is an informatics nurse specialist (INS)?
400
Use of robotic patients to practice skills and improve clinical decision making
What is simulation?
400
Increased safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and patient-centered care
What is the future of nursing informatics?
400
The type of management that seeks to provide safe patient care through managing patient-related information to ensure that it contains the latest data is correct and readily available to providers
What is information management?
500
Systems that provide nurses in high quality patient care by giving access to pertinent patient care information and providing opportunity to document
What are nursing information systems?
500
Person who serves as the chief liaison with the IT department and other top executives
What is the chief nursing informatics officer (CNIO)?
500
Six competencies of patient-centered care, cooperation, evidenced-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics
What is Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN)?
500
Decreased costs for technology, increased sophistication and understanding of different learning styles and outcomes
What are more effective educational experiences?
500
The number of hours needed of informatics nursing practice in the past 3 years
What is the number of hours needed to be credentialed?