Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

Theories, Evidence Based Practice, and Program Evaluation in Health Informatics

Nurs 736 - Technology Solutions for Knowledge Generation in Healthcare

Module 1: Foundational Information in Health Informatics

Overview

Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. NI supports nurses, consumers, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in their decision-making in all roles and settings to achieve desired outcomes. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology.  (Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition, ANA 2015).

Objectives

At the conclusion of this module, the learner will be able to:

• Review the historical development of nursing informatics and its definition
• Explore theories and models that shape the practice of nursing informatics and the use of technology in healthcare
• Discuss the concept of nurses as knowledge workers
• Describe the evolving roles and competencies of nursing informatics practice
• Provide an overview of the benefits, barriers and steps associated with EBP
• Explore the informatics contributions to EBP.

Required Readings

• Nelson & Staggers Chapter 1: An Introduction to Health Informatics 
• Nelson & Staggers Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations of Health Informatics  
• Nelson & Staggers Chapter 3: Evidence-Based Practice, Practice-Based Evidence, and Health Informatics 
• Nelson & Staggers Chapter 4: Models, Theories, and Research for Program Evaluation 
• Nelson & Staggers Chapter 35: The Evolution of Health Informatics 
• HIMSS. Nursing Informatics Community.
• Carrington, J.M., Tiase, V., Estrada, N., Shea, K.D., Dudding, K. M., Finley, B. A., Nibbelink, C., Rasmussen, R. J., M. L. Roberts, (2016) Nursing Informatics Research and Emerging Trends in 2015, Computers, Informatics, Nursing 34(7), 284-286

Recommended Readings

• Reardon S (2020). Rise of Robot Radiologists. Scientific American, 322(2), pS8-S12 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rise-of-robot-radiologists/
• Nursing Informatics: Connecting Patient Care and Technology
  https://youtu.be/N5Lsf7RZMTA
• Normal Shift in Nursing Informatics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV9a1OL0Nk8