Would a nurse in informatics like to answer 9 questions?

[AbigailJo]

Hi all,

I am currently in school pursuing my masters and one of our assignments is to interview a nurse who has a degree in informatics. I work night shift and it's difficult to find someone at the hospital to interview. I was hoping someone here would be willing to answer a few questions about their job. any help would be appreciated!

Please give me a little background about where you work, what your job description is, what you went to school for. Please include your official job title. Types of nursing information expert may be considered but not limited to, Nursing Clinical Information Manager; Super User, Director/Manager Clinical Education; Chief Information Officer; Quality Assurance or Performance Improvement Nurse; Nurse informaticist, Nurse Abstractor, Compliance Nurse.

It doesn't have to be extremely specific if you'd like it to be more anonymous.

1. What degree did you pursue to get your current position? Please include any relevant experience.

2. How do you value "best evidence" and do you believe it is valued as a way of providing care at you job?

3. What safe guards and/or decision making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at you job?

4. What are some technologies that have improved patient care.

5. Name some groups in the hospital that depend on data/informatics and how.

6. Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not understand the need of nurses/nursing

7. please share an example of how garbage in/garbage out impacted a decision related to your information/data collection

8. Please give me an example of how the lack of inter professional collaboration impacted your role

9.Please describe a typical day for you in this role

Thank you for your help!

[AbigailJo]

Hi all, disregard this message. I found someone at work who let me interview them!