Transcript Nursing Informatics and Healthcare Policy

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PRESENTATION
Aisa Bernante
Princess Diane Bernales
Simplicio Palado
Nursing Informatics and
Healthcare Policy
 Policy - course of action that guides present and
future decisions. The action is based on given
conditions and selected from among identified
alternatives.
 Policy decisions often establish the direction for
future trends that impact informatics
 Healthcare policy - established on local, state
and national levels to guide the implementation
of solutions for the populations health needs
 Healthcare Policy and NI as specialty
 1. Recognized as a specialty by ANA in 1992 but failed.
 2. Combination of nursing, information and computer
science to manage and process nursing data into
information and knowledge for use in nursing practice.
 3. Facilitates in the integration of data, information and
knowledge to support patients, nurses and other
providers in their decision making in all roles and
settings.
 4. Its domain focus on data and its structures,
information management and the technology, including
databases, needed to manage information effectively.
 5. Significant use of theory from linguistics, decision
science, cognitive science, communication, engineering,
library science and organizational dynamics.
 Interdisciplinary and Differentiated Practice
 * Informatics nurses should assist with the
development and implementation of technology
tools for clinical practice, evaluation of the
effectiveness of technological tools on nurse’s
work and help prepare nurses to use
technologies.
 Preparation for Specialty Practice
 1. Educational Programs
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- DN and HRSA funded two Masters
program for NI programs.
 2. Certification Examination
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- Available through the American Nurses
Credentialing Center
 3. Research Focus
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- Scientific study
 4. Nursing and Multidisciplinary organizations
 Events influencing Informatics
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I. Nursing shortage
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II. A concern for patient safety
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NAHIT – a partnership of diverse
healthcare leaders who are working to
influence the use of technology to improve
patient safety, quality and efficiency
 III. National informatics initiative
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HIPAA
National Agenda for Nursing Informatics
IV. Delivery of service through telehealth
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I. Nursing Shortage
Reasons :
- Availability of more attractive career opportunities for women
- Decreased interest in nursing as a career
- Higher ratio of older associate degree rather than
baccalaureate counterparts
- Difficult work environments
- Older nursing workforce
II. Patient Safety
- Implementation of computerized physician order entry
- Connecting for Health (CFH)- another public-private
collaborative, was established by the Markle foundation with
additional support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- The Markle Foundation is a private philantrophy that works to
enable technology to improve lives.
 III. Nursing Informatics Initiative
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Driving forces for the increased clinical
automation
 Patient’s safety
 Escalating healthcare cost
 Availability of improved and cheaper CIS
 Incentives for the Use of Health IT and
Establishing the Position of National Health
Information Technology Coordinator
 Components of the order:
 Establish national health info. Technology
coordinator position
 Work to develop a nationwide interoperable
health IT infrastructure
 Develop, maintain and direct implementation of
a strategic plan to guide implementation of
interoperable health IT both in public and private
sectors.
 * National Health Information Infrastructure(NHII)
 A voluntary initiative, involving a three-stage process,
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and is intended to improved the effectiveness, efficiency
and overall quality of health and healthcare in the US.
* Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA)
Improve public and private health programs by
establishing standards to facilitate the efficient
transmission of electronic health information.
* National Agenda for Nursing Informatics
DN, HRSA – responsible for setting the national policy to
guide the preparation of the nursing workforce, including
the preparation of the area of NI.
 DN convened the National Nursing Informatics
Workgroup (NNIWG) to make recommendations
to the National Advisory Council for Nurse
Education and Practice (NACNEP)
 Five key directions for informatics in nursing
education and practice
 Prepare nursing faculty in informatics
 Increase collaborative efforts in NI
 Educate nursing students and practicing nurse
in core informatics content.
 Prepare nurses for specialized skills in
informatics
 Enhance nursing practice and education through
informatics project
 NIA Strategic direction for NI
 To enhance nursing practice and education
through informatics projects.
 To improve faculty skills in NI
 To include core informatics knowledge and skills
in all undergraduate, graduate and continuing
education programs.
 To increase the number of nurses with
specialized skills in informatics
 To increase collaborative efforts in NI
 Telehealth
 Use of electronic information and
telecommunications technologies to support
long-distance clinical healthcare, patient and
professional health-related education, public
health and health administration