Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Health Information Technology
• Nurses Role in HIT
• Essential Knowledge
• Emerging Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

NURS 450 - RN to BSN Transition: Implications for Practice, Policy and the Profession

Module 12: Informatics

essential knowledge

We know that the American Association of College of Nurses (AACN), Entry-level Professional Nursing Education Essentials document, explains that a critical competency necessary to work effectively in any health care setting is the ability to the use information and healthcare technologies. Identified as Domain 8, AACN explains that “information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards” (AACN, 2021, p. 12). As we learned earlier, HIT facilitates nurses meeting patient’s needs. Health information technology “enables healthcare providers to capture standardized data and use it to inform patient care and communicate across a range of clinical settings. Health IT also supports one of the strongest tenets of nursing, educating the patient and family” (American Nurses Association, n.d.). Focusing on patient and family education, what are some health IT tools that a nurse might employ?

St. David’s Health Care, Cardio Texas, Patient Education web site (https://cardiotexas.com/patient-center/patient-education.dot)

Center for Disease Control and Prevention web site, the stoke video (https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/materials_for_patients.htm)

National Jewish Health web site (https://www.nationaljewish.org/education/patient/print-multimedia/online-materials-2)

Johns Hopkins Medical patient e-book (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/office-of-johns-hopkins-physicians/best-practice-news/patient-education-the-right-materials-at-the-right-time)