Call for Magnet/IT Examples for TIGER

[rninformatics, DNP, RN]

Greetings Nursing Informatics Community,

The TIGER Initiative is collecting examples of how information

technology can be used to demonstrate and support the forces of

magnetism. We want to provide numerous examples to help organizations

along their magnet journey. We are collecting this information to

publish a "help guide" and plan to share at a pre-conference workshop at

the Annual Magnet Conference this fall.

We are specifically looking for examples of how information technology

enables communication, education, and the delivery of patient care and

can demonstrates the forces of magnetism. Our goal is to relate these

examples to the 14 forces of magnetism, and how these examples benefit

nursing. A few ideas of examples that could be used are listed below to

help jog your memory, but this is certainly not an exhaustive list:

* Interdisciplinary documentation

* Evidence-based documentation

* Nursing involvement using information systems to obtain

Quality Improvement measures, core measures, and other quality data

* Using information management to obtain nurse-sensitive

indicators

* Nursing Informaticists or Director of Nursing Informatics

positions that are an integral component of the senior nursing

leadership team and report directly to the Chief Nursing Executive

* Nursing Informaticists that serve as an internal consultant to

the magnet coordinators

* Active staff nurse involvement in committees that participate

in system design, validation and acceptance

* Innovative education enabled by technology (e.g., e-learning)

* Technologies that improve nursing communication and

nurse-to-patient communication and nurse-to provider communication

(e.g., automated nurse scheduling, voice-activated communication with

patients, capacity management, message boards, etc.)

* Technologies that improve the work environment (message

boards, etc.)

* Technologies that empower consumers to communicate with their

families and make better healthcare decisions

* Electronic health records, computerized provider order entry,

and integrated personal health records

* Technologies that improve patient safety, reduce errors, etc.

(handoffs, transitions of care)

* Medication administration and other bar-coding systems

* New models of care, application of existing evidence, new

evidence, and visible contributions to the science of nursing supported

by technology

* Outcomes achieved as a result of the technology implemented

We will align the examples collected to the 14 Forces of Magnetism and

provide this document back as part of the TIGER Initiative

recommendations. We will accept any form of examples-e.g., brief

description, presentation, abstract, or will be happy to interview you

over the telephone to discuss your experiences. Please email your

suggestions and contact information to

[email protected]. We are

working to complete our written recommendations by the end of the

summer, so are collecting examples through June 13, 2008. We look

forward to hearing from you and will happily share our recommendations

with you. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reply to

[email protected].

Thank you in advance for your participation and your willingness to

share your experiences in leveraging technology to support the Magnet

journey.

Angela

Member Tiger Usability and Clincial Application Work Group2

Member Tiger Standards & Interoperability Work Group 2