Interview with an Nursing Informatics Expert

[Eeramsey, BSN, RN]

I am getting my BSN at Chamberlain and I have an assignment to interview a nursing informatics expert (I work at a facility that uses paper charting).

Examples of people to interview include... Nursing Clinical Information Manager; Super User, Director/Manger Clinical Education; Chief Information Officer; Quality Assurance or Performance Improvement Nurse; Nurse Informaticist; Telenursing Specialist; Nurse Abstractor; Case Manager; Compliance Nurse.

Here are the questions. I would greatly appreciate if someone could answer the first five questions, then one of the optional questions.

Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.

Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.

What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?

Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility.

What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high quality information/data and how is that information utilized?

Optional Questions

(answer only ONE question from the choices below)

Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not understand the needs of nurses/nursing?”

Please share an example of how garbage in/garbage out (GIGO) impacted a decision related to your information/data collection.

Please give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role.

Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you?

[Snooo]

do you still need to interview an NI nurse?

[Eeramsey, BSN, RN]

Nope. I finished the assignment. Thank you though!