COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT IN THE USE OF NURSING INFORMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN E-LEARNING AND NURSING INFORMATICS

E-learning (electronic education) is a combination of contents and instructional methods delivered via
computers to facilitate a building of knowledge by offline and online technologies. There are variety of
technology utilized in e-learning, i.e., internet, videos, interactive TV and CD-ROM. In addition, there
are several approaches to e-learning including: online learning or web-based instruction, etc.

Several studies have emphasized that e-learning or internet-based learning has reaped many positive
benefits as an efficient and effective educational tool. The beauty of e-learning is that it is a unique
solution for delivering online learning for nurses (despite geographical location, time, or distribution
devices. E- learning engages nurses by building interest and motivation while providing opportunities for
active participation and protecting organizational interest with documented training. However, optimal
success comes from consistent engagement.

Innovative methods like e-learning are needed to ensure that nurses can continually develop their
knowledge and skill set in a time when nursing supply and the demand for qualified nurses continue
brink on a growing shortage.)

NURSING INFORMATICS AND THE NURSE ENTREPRENEUR

QUALIFICATION OF A NURSE INFORMATICS.

How to become a nurse informatics?

There are plenty of routes you can take on your path to becoming a certified or qualified as a
informatics nurse, and while most of them begin with the basic educational standards of a registered
nurse, there are additional academic factors to consider.

The Different Education Pathways You Can become an Informatis Nurse using the ff. educational
method:

 A graduate of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

 Associate Degree in Nursing (AND)
 The basic understanding required for basic nursing procedures.
 Two in initial years of concentrating on courses such as biology, microbiology, chemistry,
physiology, nutrition, chemistry, physiology, and anatomy.
 Two final years on concentrating on courses such as adult care/geriatrics, child health, mental
health, maternity and infant care, chronic disease and community health.
 Graduate level
 Master’s Degree in Nursing (MSN)
 Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)
 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
 A competence in the theory of nursing
Nurse Entrepreneur

 Nurse entrepreneurs are nursing professionals who use their knowledge, training, medical
expertise, and experience to create and advance their own business within the healthcare
industry. By starting successful businesses within the healthcare field, nurse entrepreneurs
play a crucial role in the development and advancement of new medical applications,
information systems, medical record tracking software, home health products, and more.
(Because nurse entrepreneurs don't operate under a specific employer, they're able to work
independently and autonomously to provide a variety of nursing services which may include
things like patient care, home health and consulting services, or nursing education. To be
successful in this career, individuals must be creative, hardworking, business-savvy, and willing to
take risks financially, professionally, and personally.)

ROLES/ COMPETENCIES
Table 1. New competencies related to the future role of nursing informatics specialists

NEW COMPETENCIES NEW ROLES

Knowledge Innovation and Generation
•Provide guidance and support to others (nurses,
patients) in the application and use of emerging
knowledge (e.g., clinical decision support, Practice-
Based Evidence (PBE), genomics, expert and
patient/citizen knowledge)

•Inform-teach others (clinicians, teams,

patients) about new knowledge and
knowledge innovations relevant to specific
situations

•Provide direction and support to others in the

use of international guidelines and knowledge

•Contribute internationally to new knowledge

generation and innovations ensuring the inclusion
of relevant team member and patient
perspectives and expertise

Monitoring the use of new technology •Monitor and maintain vigilance over
data/technologies to identify those that add
value to a given health situation.

•Recognize that nurses, other clinicians and

 patients may engage and assume responsibility
independently and or interdependently for
specific data (e.g., remote monitoring, self-
monitoring, wearables, appliances).

•Recognize the emergence of patient self-service

and relevance of patient expertise in specific
situations

Value judgement & quality assessment •Provide guidance as to the value and relevance
of specific data and information as derived from
single or multiple sources for any given set of
circumstances, or health situations.

Change Management • Identify the broader scope and considerations

for change management in the context of
connected health (e.g.,virtual and physical
participants/partners)
• Recognize the extended complexities of
technology adoption in the context of connected
health

Communication & Documentation With increasingly complex and personalized

approaches to health care, participate in the
identification and/or development of new:

•models of clinical documentation

•methods of communication

•data standards

•terminology standards

•data sources

•data models

•data repositories

Data Analytics In addition to traditional quantitative and

qualitative analyses, support and participate in
the development anduse of new approaches and
methods of data analytics for:

• knowledge generation (e.g., natural language

processing, experiential data)
 • reporting outcomes

• demonstrations of value (e.g., patient-

caregiver perspectives, health and financial
outcomes)

• predictive and retrospective analyses

CAREER OPPURTUNITIES:

(According to the American Medical Informatics Association, nurse informaticians work as)

 Developers of communication and information technologies

 Educators
 Researchers
 Chief nursing officers
 Chief information officers
 Software engineers
 Implementation consultants
 Policy developers
 Healthcare business owners