Nursing Informatics: Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future

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Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent – essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions – to add immense value in... Read more

Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent – essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions – to add immense value in the current and future healthcare technology landscape.

This book moves beyond the current informatics literature. It is a platform to inspire nursing informaticists to confidently create, advocate for, and manage their presence in the healthcare technology industry. It furthers the understanding of nursing's value, knowledge, and abilities, the nursing informatics specialty, and how nurses, as end users of technology and the patient's voice in clinical practice, are essential workers, technical developers, and implementors, leading the cultivation of innovative healthcare technology solutions.

The content deep dives into:

Why nurses in technology and innovation are indispensable to solving today's key healthcare issues
Debunking nursing profession and practice falsities and how the truths prove nurses' genuine value in today's healthcare information technology industry
A comprehensive look at the past, current, and future state of the nursing informatics specialty
Pitch language for why organizational leaders should begin and better utilize nurses' exceptional clinical and technology talent essential to transforming healthcare
The ways nurses intelligently use technology, knowledge, wisdom, and innovation and can harness strategies to thrive in current roles and succeed in career transitions
How emerging nursing and informatics roles catalyzed by modern technology will profoundly change the healthcare landscape

The chapters include invaluable testimonials, recommendations, resources, and influential nurse names to help readers thoughtfully evolve their nurse technology processes and roles and promote a way forward for nurse innovation, career growth, and revolutionary care delivery shifts that will take the unique informatics specialty to the next level and create a path for an equitable, fully digitized future of healthcare.

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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

Section 3. Transforming the Future

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

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

Editor(s)

Biography

Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS is the founder of Nurse Evolution, a cause-based nursing community established to educate all nurses how to expertly use technology, data and innovation strategies for optimizing nursing care delivery for the health of people and populations. Whende graduated from Walden University, Minneapolis, in 2012 with a Master of Science in nursing with a nursing informatics focus and holds board certification in informatics nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). She is an award winning author and editor of the textbook ‘Emerging Technologies for Nurses–Implications for Practice’(Springer Publishing:NYC) and is currently a Senior Editor at the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), for which she regularly writes about big data-enable emerging technologies.

Nursing Informatics Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future

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