Nursing Informatics paper - have some questions about this specialty

[cburnham]

Hello,

I am currently taking a course on nursing issues and informatics and I have a paper due. I was hoping to get some questions answered from people who are actually working in this field.

1. Where do you work?

2. What job qualifications are required for your position?

3. What are the education requirements?

4. Who makes the technology decisions?

5. How is clinicial nursing involved in technology related decisions?

6. Where do you see nursing informatics in the future?

7. What do you like best and least about working in your specialty?

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

1. Where do you work? A small critical access facility.

2. What job qualifications are required for your position? In my case? A pulse and license, with the technical savvy to find the keyboard.

3. What are the education requirements? Nursing school.

4. Who makes the technology decisions? CIO

5. How is clinicial nursing involved in technology related decisions? As little as they can be, which is why I was hired.

6. Where do you see nursing informatics in the future? Growing. Booming.

7. What do you like best and least about working in your specialty?

I don't miss patients is the best. I miss patients is the worst.

:)

[rninformatics, DNP, RN]

Where do you work?

Currently for an integrated delivery network of 11 acute care hospitals located throughout IL and Indiana.

2. What job qualifications are required for your position?

BS or BSN (or above) in Nursing, IT or IS, 5 or more years as a practicing RN, 5 or more years in IS/IT

5 or more years experience implementing, building, testing, designing and project managing clinical information systems.

Experience with change management, process redesign, policy and procedure drafting/creation/implementation

Experience with EMRs, Clin Doc, CPOE, Order Entry, Bar Code Scanning systems, etc

3. What are the education requirements?

See above

4. Who makes the technology decisions?

Depends on the scenario/situation, what technology, who's budget its coming out of, what the system selection and acquisition policy of the organization is. What the organization's strategic plan/goals are related to the utilization of technology. A Lot of variables.

5. How is clinicial nursing involved in technology related decisions?

Again, it depends and there are lots of variables. Sometimes decisions are made on the corporate level other times the technology decision and budgeted funds are individual site specific.

6. Where do you see nursing informatics in the future?

I see it as a continuing specialty with an ever increasingly strong voice within clinical informatics.

7. What do you like best and least about working in your specialty?

Best the autonomy, Least many things but probably resistance to change would be number one.

[cburnham]

Thank you for taking your time to answers these questions.