Identifying Nursing’s Unique Contribution to Patient Outcomes Through Standardized Terminologies
Webinar Series Overview
The National Nursing Informatics Deep Dive Webinar Series
In today’s complex healthcare environment nurse educators are continuously challenged to stay abreast of the rapidly expanding field of nursing informatics. From electronic health records, social media, consumer informatics, mobile-health, smart phones, and other applications, the expectations on nurse educators to prepare students for a data, information, and technology intensive healthcare environment are high. Compounding these challenges are the expectations of “digital natives” or students who have grown up in the information age and already possess advanced computer skills.Information technology is an enabling tool that links data, information, knowledge and wisdom and facilitates problem solving and decision making. However, incorporating information technology in ways that educate students on these important concepts remains a challenge for many educators and is the focus of this webinar series. The National Nursing Informatics Deep Dive Program addresses the opportunity to enhance the competencies of prelicensure students, specifically in the area of nursing informatics. The goal of this four part webinar series is to provide nursing faculty with resources to teach nursing informatics to prelicensure students.
NOTE: This Webinar is open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff and students.
Complete Webinar Series Part I-IV
Part II: Supporting Safe Nursing Practice Through Patient Care Technologies and Workflow Design
Webinar Speaker
Thomas R. Clancy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Project Director
National Nursing Informatics Deep Dive Program
Dr. Clancy is a clinical professor and assistant dean at the University Of Minnesota School Of Nursing where he teaches, conducts research and consults on nursing informatics. Dr. Clancy, specializes in the integration of information technology into the clinical workflow of nurses. He currently serves as the co-chair for the expert panel on Informatics and Technology for the American Academy of Nursing. Prior to his appointment at the University Of Minnesota School Of Nursing, Dr. Clancy spent over 30 years in health system leadership roles in a variety of settings including acute, outpatient, long term and home care. Dr. Clancy has published numerous articles and chapters and presented on the benefits of information technology in complex healthcare systems.
Bonnie L. Westra, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
School of Nursing & Institute for Health Informatics
Director, Center for Nursing Informatics
Dr. Westra is an Associate Professor at University of Minnesota in the School of Nursing with a secondary appoint in the Institute of Health Informatics. She is the Director for the Center for Nursing Informatics and was responsible for the development and coordination of the Nursing Informatics specialty for the Doctor in Nursing Practice program. Dr. Westra co-chairs the Clinical Translational and Science Award Informatics and Architecture Committee at the University of Minnesota, is an investigator on a PCORI grant, and co-PI on an NSF funded study all of which involve creating a secure clinical data repository and using the data for nursing and interprofessional research. Her scholarly focus includes the development and effective use of standardized terminologies in EHRs, and secondary use of EHR data for creating predictive models to improve quality, and outcomes in chronic disease. She was a member of the AMIA Board of Directors and Chaired the AMIA 2014 Scientific Planning Committee for the annual symposium and Co-chaired the Alliance for Nursing Informatics. Dr. Westra is a leader on the multi-stakeholder Minnesota eHealth Advisory Board, and has co-chaired multiple interprofessional workgroups on EHR meaningful use.