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Leadership in nursing informatics
1School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 14214, USA. mccartny@buffalo.edu
Summary
Nursing informatics offers significant potential to enhance healthcare quality and safety. Nurses in perinatal, neonatal, and women's health can lead technological advancements by understanding informatics issues and humanizing technology use.
Area of Science:
- Nursing informatics as a 21st-century science.
- Focus on improving healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency.
Background:
- Perinatal, neonatal, and women's health nurses have opportunities in informatics.
- Need for nurses to lead and contribute to informatics initiatives.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the role of nurses in advancing nursing informatics.
- To emphasize the importance of understanding informatics issues for successful implementation.
Main Methods:
- Learning about current informatics issues from literature, professional organizations, and education.
- Developing strategies for innovation, collaboration, and implementation.
Main Results:
- Nurses can contribute to and lead informatics efforts.
- Accountability for humanizing technology through nursing models is crucial.
Conclusions:
- Nursing informatics is vital for modern healthcare improvement.
- Nurses must actively engage with informatics to ensure technology serves humanistic care goals.