Domain Interactive Toolkit for Integrating Informatics and Healthcare Information
Overview
This interactive toolkit aims to support faculty in addressing the competencies outlined within AACN’s 2021 Essentials by integrating informatics and healthcare information competencies into their curriculum. Faculty can utilize tools within the kit to efficiently identify resources to help them learn about informatics and health information technologies and access associated tools to implement in their teaching. This can help to build faculty knowledge and their capacity to teach the content and use with their students in the classroom.
How to Use
On the first tab, the first sections below include cumulative and individual teaching resources with links to the websites in the notes and links column. The next section includes additional resources and training for faculty. The next tab has additional resources including faculty trainings to facilitate the integration of Domain 8 competencies and sub-competencies in their courses and curriculum. The third and fourth tabs are samples of curricular mapping. NI User Levels is the next tab which describes Nursing Informatics (NI) Competencies by level for practicing nurses, nursing administration, nurse researchers, and educators based on the Nursing Informatics Learning Center guidelines. The last two tab are links to the HIMSS Health Informatics Competencies and resources.
Integrative Learning Strategies
Faculty can select resources appropriate for their courses, meeting students’ prior knowledge and addressing the gaps identified during the curriculum mapping process. In accordance with the recommendations of the AACN 2021 Essentials, many resources can be implemented and threaded into their curriculum to build on prior knowledge and reinforce understanding of concepts.
Assessment Strategies
Many of the resources within this kit have assessment tools and methodologies for assessing individual learning strategies.
Possible Courses
- Foundations of Nursing Care
- Medical-Surgical Nursing
- Pathophysiology
- Health Assessment
- Pharmacology
- Pediatrics
- Women's Health
- Mental Health
- Care of the Aging Population
- Research
- Community and Population Health
- End of Life
- Professional Nursing
Additional Resources/Publications
Sub-competencies for entry-level professional nursing education:
8.1a Identify the variety of information and communication technologies used in care settings.
8.1b Identify the basic concepts of electronic health, mobile health, and telehealth systems for enabling patient care.
8.1c Effectively use electronic communication tools.
8.1d Describe the appropriate use of multimedia applications in health care.
8.1e Demonstrate best practice use of social networking applications.
8.1f Explain the importance of nursing engagement in the planning and selection of healthcare technologies.
8.2a Enter accurate data when chronicling care.
8.2b Explain how data entered on one patient impacts public and population health data.
8.2c Use appropriate data when planning care.
8.2d Demonstrate the appropriate use of health information literacy assessments and improvement strategies.
8.2e Describe the importance of standardized nursing data to reflect the unique contribution of nursing practice.
8.3a Demonstrate appropriate use of information and communication technologies.
8.3b Evaluate how decision support tools impact clinical judgment and safe patient care.
8.3c Use information and communication technology in a manner that supports the nurse patient relationship.
8.3d Examine how emerging technologies influence healthcare delivery and clinical decision making.
8.3e Identify impact of information and communication technology on quality and safety of care.
8.3f Identify the importance of reporting system processes and functional issues (error messages, mis-directions, device malfunctions, etc.) according to organizational policies and procedures.
8.4a Explain the role of communication technology in enhancing clinical information flows.
8.4b Describe how information and communication technology tools support patient and team communications.
8.4c Identify the basic concepts of electronic health, mobile health, and telehealth systems in enabling patient care.
8.4d Explain the impact of health information exchange, interoperability, and integration on health care.
8.5a Identify common risks associated with using information and communication technology.
8.5b Demonstrate ethical use of social networking applications.
8.5c Comply with legal and regulatory requirements while using communication and information technologies.
8.5d Educate patients on their rights to access, review, and correct personal data and medical records.
8.5e Discuss how clinical judgment and critical thinking must prevail in the presence of information and communication technologies.
8.5f Deliver care using remote technology.
Posted: December 4, 2024
Submitted by:
Katie Pawloski, Ph.D., RN, CMSRN, CNE, Assistant Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University
Tamika Richardson, MS, RN, Global Marketing Manager, BD