Nursing Informatics
Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future
by Whende M. Carroll
1st Edition
Publisher: Productivity Press
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Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781032065779 |
| eText ISBN | 9781040036433 |
| Publisher | Productivity Press |
| Publishing Year | 2024 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 192 |
Nursing Informatics: Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future, 1st Edition, examines the essential contributions of nursing professionals within healthcare technology. The volume prepares both active and aspiring nurse informaticists by clarifying evolving healthcare trends and emerging roles.
The text reviews the past, current, and future state of the specialty, positioning nurses as technical developers, implementors, and technology end users. It demonstrates why nursing expertise in technology and innovation remains indispensable to resolving complex healthcare challenges.
The work also explores how healthcare organizations gain value from nursing talent, knowledge, and clinical wisdom, providing guidance on substantiating professional worth and advancing within health information technology.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The State of Nursing Informatics - Opportunities to Boldly Influence Change
- • The Imperative to Growth and Change
- • The Nursing Informatics Landscape: What’s Happening Now
- • The Case for Why Nursing Informatics Truths and Talents are Essential Today
- • Nurses informaticists Get It – and Why Everyone Else Should Too
- • Nurses Informaticists are the Invisible Voice of Patients, Caregivers, and Clinicians
- • The Fast and Furious Healthcare Evolution
- • The Covid-19 Pandemic Changed Nursing
- • We Need More Nurse Informaticists
- • We Need More Educators to Teach Nursing Informatics
- • In Academia
- • In Clinical Practice Settings
- • Healthcare and Technology are Transforming, We Need New Informatics Roles
- • Emerging Needs for Nursing Informatics Skills, Knowledge, and Talent
- • Nurses as Technology Solution Developers and Implementors are Future Critical
- • There is No Shortage of Nursing Informatics Talent in the Healthcare Technology Industry
- • Nursing Informatics + Innovation Will Get Us to Where We Need to Be
- • A Time for Learning and Transformation
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 2: The Facts About Informatics Nurses Place in Healthcare IT
- • The Value All Nurses Bring to Healthcare
- • Who People Think Nurses Are, What They Do and Don’t Do
- • The Perceived Value of Nurses
- • In Society
- • In the News and Social Media
- • Healthcare Information Technology Industry and Our Colleagues
- • Factors Hindering Nurses’ Growth and Impact in the Healthcare Technology Industry
- • A Lack of Knowledge About Nurses’ Formal Informatics Training and Certifications
- • Unawareness of Global Nurse-led, -developed, and -centric Technology Initiatives
- • Nurse Informaticists’ Contribution Must Be Known
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 3: The Specialty of Nursing Informatics
- • The Power of Nursing Informatics
- • A Lynchpin Role in Healthcare ’s Future
- • Evolution of Nursing Informatics – Past, Present, and Future
- • Definition and Nursing Informatics Paradigm
- • Driven by Standards - ANA Scope and Standards of NI Practice
- • Nursing Informatics Certification
- • Nursing Informatics Organizations and Networks
- • Roles and Opportunities in Nursing Informatics
- • Insights from the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Surveys 2004-2020
- • Value and Impact of Nursing Informatics
- • Emerging Technologies and Trends
- • Reimagining Informatics and the Care Continuum
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 4: What Nurses Informaticists Have and Need More Of
- • The Essentialness of Nursing Foundations to Healthcare IT
- • What Nurse Informaticists Naturally Encompass–Cornerstones of Nursing: Care, Compassion, and Empathy
- • Experiences and Acquired Skills Impact New Technologies
- • The Nursing Process
- • Workarounds
- • Applied Innovation
- • Interdisciplinary Teamwork
- • Holistic Big Picture
- • Where Informaticists Can be More Involved– System Development Life Cycle and Nurses
- • The 7 Stages of SDLC
- • 1. Planning
- • 2. Requirements Analysis
- • 3. Design and Prototyping
- • 4. Software Development
- • 5. Testing
- • 6. Implementation/Deployment
- • 7. Operations and Maintenance
- • Increasing Nursing Participation
- • The Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC)
- • Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (SONSIEL)
- • The National Nurses in Business Association (NNBA)
- • Get Ready to Digitize the Future
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 5: Substantiating the Value of Nursing Informatics
- • Defining Your Worth as a Nurse Technologist
- • The Difference Between Knowing and Speaking
- • The Reality of Gaps in Understanding Nursing and Nursing Informatics Today
- • Gaps in Different Organization Types
- • Bridging Gaps with Nursing Curriculum
- • Academia is Essential for Value
- • Gaps in Nursing Informatics Perceived Value
- • Nursing Informatics Value Metrics
- • Informatics Nurses are Invaluable Contributors in the Development and Implementation of Healthcare Technologies
- • Voice and Vision
- • Applied Clinical Experience and Technology Lifecycle
- • Building and Sustaining Health Technology Systems
- • Nursing Informatics Quantifiable Value
- • Task Measurement to Value-based Outcomes
- • The Results of Uncovering Nursing Informatics Quantifiable Value
- • Unique Perspectives Between Nurses, Non-clinicians, and Other Clinicians–Opportunities for Influence, New Roles, and Growth
- • Nurses and Non-clinicians
- • Nurses and Physicians
- • Missing Out on Job Opportunities
- • Clinician Role Inequities
- • The Value of Nursing Informatics Reporting Structures and Leadership Roles
- • Department Reporting Structure Pros and Cons
- • The Four C’s of Nurse Informatics Leaders
- • The Communicator
- • The Connector
- • The Collaborator
- • The Change Navigator
- • The Four C’s – Adding Empathy
- • Understanding What Nurse Informaticists Do and How to Tell Everyone
- • Scripting to Help Nurses Describe the Value of the Informatics Specialty, Roles, and Talents
- • Go Forth and Substantiate Your Nursing Informatics Value
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 6: Advancing your Growth in Healthcare Information Technology
- • The Choice to Pursue the Nursing Informatics Specialty
- • Translating Nurse Knowledge and Skills to Solve Healthcare IT Problems
- • Nursing Knowledge
- • Nursing Practice Skills are Key
- • Nursing Assessments
- • Critical Thinking
- • Identifying Problems
- • Translating Nurse Knowledge and Technology Skills to Solve Healthcare Problems
- • Health Equity
- • Consumer Experience
- • Nursing Workforce Challenges
- • Nurses Contribute to Problem-solving
- • Nursing Skills for Healthcare Information Problem Solving
- • Working in Complex Environments
- • Working with Teams
- • Working in Clinical Care
- • Transitioning to New Healthcare Technology Settings
- • Use Translation Skills
- • Explore New Places and Roles in the Industry
- • Leverage Your Network Onion
- • Strategies for Personal and Professional Growth – Find Your People
- • Mentors
- • Create A Personal Board of Directors
- • Join Professional Organizations
- • Reap the Benefits
- • Pivoting: Making the Next Move in Your Healthcare Technology Career
- • Nurses Getting a Foot in the Door
- • The Public and Private Sector–How Nurses Technologists Discover Healthcare IT Roles
- • Hospitals and Healthcare Systems
- • Electronic Health Records and Operation
- • Quality and Risk Management
- • Leadership
- • An Immense Positive: Stability
- • Healthcare Technology Industry
- • Industry Vendor Players
- • Innovation Opportunities
- • New Collaborations
- • Driving Revenue
- • Healthcare IT Consulting
- • A Truly Hands-on Role
- • Higher Compensation
- • The Big Picture: Understand How Everything Fits Together
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 7: Applying Innovation and New Technologies
- • Now’s the Time for Transformation
- • Nurse Innovation Spirit and Skills
- • Creativity
- • Ambiguity
- • Entrepreneurship - Hacking to Develop Healthcare Solutions
- • Innovation and New Healthcare Technologies
- • Nursing Innovation is Changing nursing roles impacted by Technology
- • New Practice Settings and Care Models
- • Three Key Themes for Informaticists to Innovate and Transform the Future
- • Nursing Leadership
- • The DIKW Framework
- • Emergency Preparedness
- • Structural and Individual Determinants of Health
- • Nursing Will Advance with Innovation, Knowledge, and Advocacy
- • The Conclusion is Just the Beginning
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 8: The Future: Where Nursing Informatics Goes from Here
- • The Next Phase of Healthcare, Intelligent Technologies, New Roles, and Focus
- • Nurse Informaticists: Clinicians of the Future
- • New Models, New Personas
- • Physically-distanced Care Delivery
- • A New Care Model: Virtual Nursing
- • Five Ways Nurses Will Transform the Future of Healthcare and Informatics
- • 1. Nurses Will Recognize Their Value Based on New Experiences
- • 2. Nurses will Side Hustle and Become Entrepreneurs
- • Exploring New Ventures
- • Nurses: The New Sharing Economy Moguls
- • 3. Nurse Will Have New Roles Opportunities in Automation as AI Reigns in Healthcare
- • New Roles to Support Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- • Clinical Robot Associate
- • Prompt Engineer
- • Chief AI Officer
- • 4. Nurses Will Become Scientists, Engineers, and Data Stewards
- • Nurse Scientists
- • Nurse Engineers
- • Nurse Data Stewards
- • 5. Nurse Technologists Will Advance Healthcare Justice for All
- • The Health Equity Imperative
- • A Nurse-centric Blueprint to Guide Informaticists Toward Healthcare Equitability
- • The Concept of ‘Techquity’
- • Advancing Techquity
- • These Five Ways Will Keep Nurse Informaticists Relevant in Society and Modern Practice
- • Resources
- • Nurses to Know
- • References
Chapter 9: Epilogue: The Best Advice You’ll Ever Get
- • Wisdom From Expert Informatics Nurses
- • For practicing Nurse Informaticists: Thriving in Your Role
- • For Aspiring Nurse Informaticists: Pivoting and Making the Next Move
- • For Our Healthcare Colleagues: A Deeper Understanding
- • For Society and Healthcare Technology Industry Leaders: NI is Fundamental
- • For the Future: Shine Your Light
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