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Essential informatics nurse skills include: Clinical experience and an understanding of the information needs of a health care setting. Proficiency in EHRs, data analytics, and other health care technologies. An ability to adapt to emerging technology and skills in data analysis and interpretation.
Graves and Corcoran identified the conceptual model that’s pivotal to nursing informatics known as the data, information, knowledge, wisdom (DIKW) framework. 3 This framework has subsequently been used to define how nursing informatics impacts nursing practice and care delivery, and it aligns well with the American Nurses Association Nursing ...
Health informatics is an umbrella term for a field of study that combines domain knowledge from the health sciences, e.g., medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, with insights from information and computer sciences. Those pursuing a health informatics career are typically cross-trained to skillfully combine domain expertise and insights from ...
This paper will describe current definitions of nursing informatics from three different healthcare contexts: Australia, the United States of America and Canada, to identify the similarities and differences between these definitions and to summarise the distinct bodies of knowledge described by each country.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines informatics nursing as the integration of “nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.”
Nursing informatics (NI) is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. NI supports consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision- making in all roles and settings.
Objectives. Review informatics history, definitions, theory and concepts as it relates to the healthcare environment and role of the professional nurse. Discuss the role of nurses as knowledge workers. Differentiate between computer literacy versus information literacy.