Clinical Experience
The American Nurses Association (2008) define nursing informatics as the mixture of computer and information science and nursing towards improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Nursing informatics is a career that has developed from the evolution of health informatics, which involves the use of knowledge to examine and translate health data into useful information that can be utilized in enhancing patient outcomes through improved processes. As the healthcare field continues to adopt technology rapidly, nursing informatics is one of the educational programs that has emerged to prepare the workforce towards effective use of health information technology to enhance patient care delivery (Dalrymple, 2011). Nursing informatics education include formal graduate programs that provide both theoretical and practical training (which includes working with an already practicing preceptor). The ANA Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice requires students in this profession to complete a formal practicum as part of practical training. This report will discuss my practicum experience at Northwell health informatics department. The discussion will include a comprehensive assessment and evaluation of my field experience, whether I met my objectives, and issues encountered during the course of the experience.
My Objectives
For this practicum, I had four major objectives/goals that I intended to achieve when conducting my various roles at Northwell health informatics department. The first goal or objective of this practicum was to examine and understand the role of a nurse informatics/CIS within a healthcare facility or organization. Secondly, the experience was geared towards understanding how the role of a nurse informaticians differs from the role of a non-clinical informatics team member. This was carried out through examining the organization's job descriptions or responsibilities and guidance obtained from the preceptor regarding role responsibility. The third objective entailed identifying measures for integrating project management skills and research into the role of an informatics nurse specialist based on feedback from the preceptor. The final objective of this practicum was to familiarize myself and become acquainted with the latest technological advances in electronic medical records.
My role at Northwell health informatics department provided me with an opportunity to engage in different tasks that revolved around these four objectives. Through my experience, I met each of these objectives or goals while working at the facility. These objectives were met in different ways including participating in meetings with nurse informatics clinical specialists and non-clinical informatics team members. According to the American Nurses Association (2008), nurse informatics clinical specialists provide necessary support to other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. In this regard, nurse informaticians work with physicians, nurses, patients, and consumers in decision-making processes relating to the use of information processes, structures, and technologies in healthcare delivery processes. My role at Northwell health informatics department involved working with different members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team such as registered nurses, staffs at the emergency department, and members of the health IT team. Working with these different team members enabled me to explore and understand the differences between nurse informatics clinical specialist and non-clinical informatics team members....
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