Nursing informatics is nursing science and practice integrating nursing information and knowledge, with computer science, information management and technologies to promote the health of people, families, communities and populations. More and more today, an informatics nurse specialist serves as a clinical informatics team member supporting enabled health information systems to function safely. We know that patient safety is not the happenstance of good intentions, but must be engineered to support the outcome we desire. Adding technology to the complex clinical environment may enhance and improve our systems or challenge and disrupt those systems if electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented without thought. We must remain vigilant to the safety and safe use of EHRs.
In this blog, I will share my experiences and lessons learned as an informatics nurse specialist. What is an informatics nurse specialist? According to the ANA, an informatics nurse specialist (INS) is an RN who has been "formally prepared at the graduate level in informatics or a related field", (Parker, 2012). Just to be clear, my point of view is that of an INS and I acknowledge there are many points of view.
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