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Nursing Informatics: Career Overview

Being in the nursing field gives you a platform to help patients, but if you’re interested in extending your care to a whole facility, you might consider a career in nursing informatics. As a nursing informatics specialist, you’ll be able to assist with health information data and technology to increase nurses’ quality of care. Keep reading to find out more about this impactful career.

What Is Nursing Informatics?

Nursing informatics is an intersection between patient care and patient health information. As a nurse informaticist, you’ll be responsible for many of the tools and processes nurses use daily. Job duties include:

• Designing, creating, testing, and putting into place new or modified information solutions, like electronic health records and communications tools
• Consulting with nurses on how to set up healthcare software and hardware, such as monitoring devices
• Analyzing information systems data to improve nursing services and reduce errors
• Acting as a translator between nurses, system engineers, analysts, or designers
• Creating strategies and policies to introduce, evaluate, or modify healthcare technology
• Developing ways to better ensure patient data security and confidentiality
• While more technical than other nursing careers, the main goal of nursing informatics is enhancing patient care. Better information systems and data mean fewer medical errors and better handling of patient data.

How Nursing Informatics Differs from Traditional Nursing

While nursing informatics and traditional nursing have the same roots, they differ in how they touch patients’ lives.

Traditional nurses find themselves face-to-face with patients, using software and hardware devices to keep track of health status. Nursing informatics specialists work towards these same patient outcomes by integrating nursing practices with information and communication technologies to create safe and effective standards of care.

Think of it as the behind-the-scenes work that allows nurses to do their tasks with as much advanced technology as possible, such as interprofessional workflows and communication systems, or detailed electronic medical record (EMR) management.

Nursing Informatics vs. Health Informatics

Another important distinction to make is between nursing informatics and health informatics. Nursing informatics is focused on patient care, specifically by optimizing the technology used by nurses. Health informatics is focused on the administration concerns, such as those surrounding data security and technology compliance standards.

Nurse Informaticist Job Description

So, what exactly does a nurse informaticist do? Overall, you’ll get a good balance between independent work and user-facing support.

A high-level task for those on the job involves evaluating and supporting healthcare technology, whether software or hardware. This means you’ll need to educate, train, and support the nurses who use it on an ongoing basis. It’s also common to project manage those who are also working with you to streamline patient care services, since you’ll have both the clinical and technical experience needed to determine the criteria for success.

What other careers can I pursue in nurse informatics?

A variety of medical settings, from hospitals to health care vendors, need nurse informatics specialists. Nurse vendor representatives, nurse programmers, nurse managers, and nurse communicators are examples of popular informatics careers.

Why It’s Important

Technology is an integral part of any healthcare organization. To stay on the cutting edge, more facilities are recognizing the importance of having a healthcare information technology (IT) professional on staff.

In their 2016 Leadership Survey, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) examined the latest trends in healthcare IT. According to their findings, 95% of respondents “view health IT as a strategically critical tool to help healthcare organizations be successful.”

This is good news if you’re interested in pursuing a career in a critically vital field. The majority of respondents to the survey said this type of role can help with efforts focused on patient care. This includes clinical integration, primary care provider efficiency, mandated quality metrics improvement, and care coordination.

As a nurse informatics specialist, you can help deliver better results by performing tasks such as:

• Policy writing
• Training and supporting system users
• Designing systems
• Quality control
• Project management
• Choosing and implementing systems
• Being able to communicate information and understand data can also help improve a healthcare organization’s patient outcomes and allow them to make better decisions.

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International Community Nursing Observatory will explore issues such as safe caseloads

International Community Nursing Observatory will explore issues such as safe caseloads

The launch of the International Community Nursing Observatory (ICNO) in November is a ‘brilliant opportunity’ for nursing to articulate what it does and why it is a ‘safety critical’ profession, according to its newly appointed director.

Alison Leary told the Queen’s Nursing Institute conference in London that the ICNO’s research would help ‘bust the myths’ surrounding community nurses’ work.

Using data to shine a light on services

The ICNO will gather and analyse data about community and primary nursing services, and will monitor workforce trends at a regional, national and international level.

‘I’m excited about being able to draw a line around issues like safety and “what does a safe caseload look like?”,’ Professor Leary said.

‘Workforce planners don’t understand what work is being done, and increasingly I see nursing represented as a series of tasks.’

Myriad responsibilities of community nurses  

Professor Leary quoted a request she had received, which asked: ‘I want to know how many district nurses we need… it should be easy as they only do four things.’

She added: ‘It beggars belief that these are the assumptions being made. District nurses alleviate suffering, give people a better quality of life, or a good death, or save their lives. They do a lot more than four things.’

The consequences of budget cuts 

Professor Leary said good nursing was ‘only seen when it isn’t there’, and that when budget cuts were being made there was a lack of understanding that ‘poor care costs’.

She argued that community service providers were looking at how many nurses they could afford, rather than how many were needed, and that many newly qualified nurses were being placed on the front line where they had to handle complex issues.

‘We need to mitigate the "rookie factor",’she said.

‘It’s brilliant that lots of nurses will go into the community on qualifying – but how are we going to support them? If we don’t, they will leave.’

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What Is a Telephone Triage Nurse?

Telephone triage nurses, sometimes known as telehealth nurses or TTNs, assist patients over the phone or via video chat. TTNs often help patients decide whether they need to seek emergency treatment, make an appointment with a doctor, or if they can treat themselves. Telephone triage nurses are trained to ask patients highly specific questions to accurately assess their case and refer them to an appropriate health care professional. Telephone triage nurses have the ability to access patients' health information profiles and pertinent charts online, giving them the unique ability to assist their patients remotely. TTNs are especially useful for patients who must travel long distances to reach a medical facility and for those who must struggle to pay for medical services. They also assist doctors in reducing their patient load by remotely guiding patients with minor health problems to save an often-expensive visit to the physician's office. This helps to eliminate overcrowding and reduce long wait times in emergency medical facilities. Most telephone triage nursing services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, resulting in TTNs working odd hours and night shifts.

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What is a Practice Nurse?

Practice nurses are highly trained nurses who work with GPs in primary care practices. They provide a range of services including immunisations, wound care, medical advice and chronic disease management.

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Auckland DHB Nursing Services - District Nursing

A team of experienced nursing staff based in the community providing a wide variety of nursing care in the home, including palliative care and leg ulcer services at Greenlane Clinical Centre, with the goal of promoting optimum health and independence for clients. District Nursing includes generalist and specialist knowledge and skills as well as knowledge of community resources which may be needed to complement care. The staff function independently and interdependently in assessing needs, monitoring, delivering and evaluating care.

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Kidz First Public Health Nursing PUBLIC SERVICE

The Kidz First Public Health Nurses are registered nurses who collectively bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to their work. They work to ensure the wellbeing of children, young people and their families/whanau. They also:

• Advocate for children, young people and their families by working alongside their families/whanau, school staff, allied health professionals and social agencies to ensure positive health outcomes
• Organise and deliver immunisation programmes in schools
• Follow up children and young people with identified hearing/vision needs
• Provide specialist nursing services to school children as required
• Resource schools in planning health education and health promotion
• Work closely with schools interested in developing as Health-Promoting Schools.

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Nurse Maude Hospice COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE

Nurse Maude provides nursing, homecare, and support so people can stay in their own homes and communities and inpatient care in its hospital and hospice. By working in partnership with other health providers and through significant investment in our people, technology, research and development, Nurse Maude continues to care for the people of Canterbury, as we have done since 1896.

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Piripoho Nursing Service COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE

This service is a collaboration between Owhata Medical Centre, Lakes DHB and Tatou Pounamu (formerly Eastside Community Collective). The service arose out of the Eastside Child Friendly Initiative.

The aim is for every child who lives Eastside Rotorua to be safe and be able to reach their potential. Being healthy is important as it can determine the outcomes for our children. The focus of this service is children living within the Eastside of Rotorua aged between 0 - 18 years, their whanau and hapu mama.

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Poutiri Trust - Pouwhenua (Community Nursing)

Poutiri Charitable Trust was established in 1997 to contract and develop Maori Health Providers within the Bay of Plenty region to deliver on a variety of health and wellbeing services.

See below for the Community Nursing Services provided under Pouwhenua. Poutiri Charitable Trust also delivers Mental Health and Addiction in Te Puke through our Poutangata Services and a general health and wellbeing service through our Whanau Ora service. 

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Hinepukohurangi Trust - Community Nursing

The Hinepukohurangi Trust is an established Māori provider of health and disability services in Ruatāhuna. They work to assist in the development and distribution of Te Reo Māori health promotion resources to local marae and Kohanga Reo in Ruatāhuna; and through local panui, the iwi radio station and static displays at marae hui.

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Waitemata DHB District Nursing Service

District nurses provide specialised care/ treatment for patients and families in their own homes, if housebound due to their medical condition, or in a district nursing clinic. Our main role is to support and promote a healthy lifestyle in order to help people remain independent.

The district nurses will coordinate patient care; from admission to the service, until they transfer care back to the GP practice. They work closely with the patient and their health team (GPs, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech language therapists, social workers, dietitians and needs assessment and service co-ordinators) to ensure the patient receives the best possible care.

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Southern DHB - Pacific Island Nurse Service

• The Pacific Island Nurse Specialist team is committed to Pacific Island culture and has extensive networks in the Southland Pacific Island community. They offer a comprehensive service to clients accessing hospital and primary care services including:
• Support when accessing health services
• Assistance to help understand the medical explanation about your illness, its treatment and follow up care

Helping to monitor your care after you leave hospital

Referrals can also be made by GPs, community service offices or a friend or family member.
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A free Pacific Island primary health care clinic is held each week at the Pacific Island Advisory and Cultural Service Trust rooms.

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