Informatics Competencies and Advanced Nursing Practice
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is for you to reflect on your current level of competency in informatics and readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse.
Nurses are knowledge seekers and use the informatics framework data, information, knowledge, and wisdom daily. Technologies can be used in various settings to meet the needs of a diverse healthcare population. By enhancing efficient communication, informatics and healthcare technologies are assisting nurses to engage patients to improve their health and manage their health conditions. Interprofessional and interdisciplinary barriers are easing as technologies are facilitating collaboration. This partnership approach to patient care delivery is supported by information and communication technologies and informatics processes.
Instructions
Review the article by Studwick et al. (2019) in the readings, The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice, and the QSEN Competencies. Reflect on your own technology experience to address the following:
- Analyze the information and communication technologies you use in your practice setting to improve the quality of care, efficiency of communication, and interprofessional collaboration to provide a safe patient environment.
- Assess your competency in informatics and readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse.
Program Competencies
Informatics Competencies and Advanced Nursing Practice
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
- Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
- Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- Assess the impact of informatics and information technology on organizational systems, change, and improvement. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
- Evaluate the types of healthcare information systems, knowledge-based systems, and patient care technology and their impact on patient safety, quality of care, and outcome measurement. (PC 4; PO 7)