Welcome to the
field of Nursing Informatics. Nursing Informatics is one of the
newest specialties in professional nursing and has been officially
recognized by the American Nurses Association (ANA). It is a
unique combination of nursing science, information processing
theory and computer science. The goals of nursing informatics
include
- Standardizing documentation
- Improving communication
- Supporting the decision-making
process
- Developing and disseminating new
knowledge
- Enhancing the quality and
effectiveness of health care delivery
- Empowering clients to make
health care choices
- Advancing the science of nursing
The
21st century is a new era for informatics. Information intensive
disciplines like nursing require careful investigation into the
application of computers to process nursing information. Nursing
Informatics can be applied to model the human processing of data,
information, and knowledge within a computer system in order to
automate the processing of nursing data to information and the
transformation of nursing information to nursing knowledge.
Advances are in the infancy stage but show promise for the future
where science will contribute significantly to envision new health
care delivery systems worldwide.
Pre-requisites for
certification eligibility include:
- Baccalaureate or higher degree
in nursing
- Active licensure as an RN in the
US
- Minimum of two years of practice
as an RN
- At least 2,000 hours in
informatics nursing within the past five years, OR
- Completion of at least 12
semester hours of academic credits in a graduate program in
informatics nursing with a minimum of 1,000 hours of
informatics nursing practice within the past five years, AND
- 20 contact hours of continuing
education applicable to informatics nursing within the last
two years
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