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Informatics – The Newest Nursing Masters Degree

Nursing Informatics is a rapidly growing sector of the healthcare industry. Nursing informatics specialists combine nursing skills with information technology in order to improve patient care.

● 57% of nursing informatics specialists report they are satisfied to highly satisfied with their jobs

● 81% of nursing informatics specialists report they are satisfied to highly satisfied with their career decision

● 20% of nursing informatics specialists report having 1-5 years of clinical bedside experience

● 60% of nursing informatics specialists have a post-graduate degree

● 43% of nursing informatics specialists have a post-graduate degree specifically in nursing

● 28% of nursing informatics specialists have a post-graduate degree in informatics

● The average salary for nursing informatics specialists in 2014 is $100,717

● 37% of nursing informatics specialists are not supervisors

● 58% of nursing informatics specialists currently work in hospitals.

○ This number is expected to drop as need for these specialists moves into acute care and other settings.

● 30% of healthcare organizations currently have nursing informatics specialists

○ This has doubled since 2011

Nursing Informatics Specialists serve as:

○ Communication and IT developers

○ Educators

○ Researchers

○ Chief nursing officers

○ Software engineers

○ Implementation consultants

○ Policy developers

Nursing Informatics Specialists:

○ Develop standards to support evidence-based practice, research, and education

○ Devise standards for national data infrastructure

○ Communicate new data to be put into practice

○ Support safe patient-centered care by using information retrieval and processing effectively

○ Use technology-based methods of communication to address work flow needs

○ Envision, design, and manage new ways to apply technology to healthcare improvements

It is recommended that ALL nurses have basic training in these informatics areas:

Basic Computer Competence:

■ Concepts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

■ Using the Computer and Managing Files

■ Word Processing

■ Spreadsheets

■ Using Databases

■ Presentation

■ Web Browsing and Communication

Information Literacy:

■ Identify information needed for a specific purpose

■ Locate pertinent information

■ Evaluate the information

■ Apply it correctly

Information Management:

■ Collect data

■ Process data

■ Communicate processed data as knowledge



Nursing Informatics help to advance healthcare. Some recent examples of this:

○ Development of a mobile app called Story Care that helps caregivers and healthcare providers for dementia patients coordinate care. It also coordinates community-based support for caregivers.

○ Bibliometric mapping breaks down huge sets of data into an easily digestible form such as an infographic for the purpose of fostering data comprehension.

Sources:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC344585/

http://www.eweek.com/it-management/nursing-informatics-specialists-play-bigger-role-in-health-it.html/

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/nursing-informatics-adds-value-healthcare-transforming

http://hitconsultant.net/2014/02/25/infographic-2014-nursing-informatics-workforce-survey/

http://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/nursing-informatics

http://www.thetigerinitiative.org/docs/TigerReport_InformaticsCompetencies_000.pdf

http://ojni.org/issues/?p=3095

http://ojni.org/issues/?p=3093