NURSING INFORMATICS
Competency 724.4.3: Leadership – The graduate recognizes the importance of nurse involvement in the planning, design, selection, and implementation of information systems in a nursing practice environment; discusses the roles, benefits, and costs of new technologies; and recognizes effective security and confidentiality for protection of patient records.
Objectives:
724.4.3-01: Explain how the use of computerized management systems to record administrative data can increase quality of care in a given situation.
724.4.3-02: Explain why nurse involvement in the planning, design, selection, and implementation of information systems in a given nursing practice environment is important.
724.4.3-03: Identify key strategies or safeguards for securing patient records in a given health care setting.
724.4.3-04: Describe how specified new technology applied to a given organization’s clinical decision-support system can change the way nursing is practiced in that organization.
724.4.3-05: Describe the role of a specified handheld device in improving a nurse’s ability to deliver quality patient care in a given clinical or hospital setting.
724.4.3-06: Identify common standards that govern specified aspects of health care-related data storage.
724.4.3-07: Discuss how a specified new technology can affect health care delivery cost in a given situation.
724.4.3-08: Explain how having access to certain types of information at the point of care can impact nursing care delivery in a given situation