“Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.” Myrtle Aydelotte
From meaningful use to accountable care, healthcare trends are transforming nurses' roles, responsibilities and career trajectories. Key to being part of this change is nursing informatics. The field has already begun to flourish.
Another guidepost is the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative Foundation, which recommends educators adopt informatics competencies for all levels of nursing education and practice, and reform the nursing curriculum by integrating healthcare information technology.
Achieving success in developing nursing informatics will also require collaboration between hospital executives, nursing leaders, nursing management, nursing staff and nursing schools.
Healthcare and technology are two important topics that continue to change and grow as time moves forward. Nursing Informatics is only going to get bigger and better. I see nursing schools offering an informatics class to students in their first semester, and I also hope to see the nursing profession embrace technology better.
Many future nursing informatics guideposts involve education. Educational programs must prepare nursing students to work in multidisciplinary teams. Future nurse informaticians will be professional knowledge workers who will employ advanced information technologies and new health care information content to help to create and evaluate innovative solutions that coordinate future health care delivery by care teams. New nursing information management systems must be developed to help nurses evaluate workflow, assess risk, plan care strategies, and evaluate outcomes. Inherent in this process is a critical need to develop Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) knowledge, which is underway through numerous collaborations with university and other health care organizations and industry. The electronic health record vendor community can contribute by partnering with academic centers, to create curriculums that teach EBN embedded in EHR-related content and processes. This will enhance nurses developing new skills as knowledge workers with expertise in clinical decision support. Such a vendor-based strategy can build a nurse community/vendor industry model network. Frameworks to embed the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) and the Nursing Management Minimum Data Set (NMMDS) into the EHR provide another nursing data model focused on the continuum of health care.
Promising Future for Nursing Informatics
Nursing informatics is an excellent career choice for nurses who want to apply technology and information science to their clinical base. The future of this industry is very promising. Respondents of the 2007 HIMSS/McKesson survey gave varied positive responses for their vision of the future of nursing informatics.
- Nursing informatics will be integral in an organization's decision making process in purchasing and implementing clinically related technology
Nursing informatics will continue to expand and flourish as healthcare technology grows, eventually affecting other departments such as IT and assuming more administrative roles
- Nursing informatics will improve the quality and safety of patient care while lowering cost
- Nursing informatics and EMR will positively influence each other
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