Re-visioning of a Nursing Informatics Course With Translational Pedagogy

For nurse leaders to excel in leadership roles in the clinical world of informatics, a comprehensive understanding of nursing informatics as translated within the broader scope of health informatics including clinical informatics and business intelligence is necessary. The translation of nursing informatics in the comprehensive scope of health informatics is not consistently taught in graduate nursing leadership curricula. Collaboratively, from an interprofessional education stance, a graduate nurse informatics course was re-visioned using translational pedagogy: the idea of teaching related concepts by translating each and vice versa. Specifically, we translated nursing informatics amid health informatics concepts including business intelligence. Leadership students in the re-visioned course experienced the ability to visualize, conceptualize, and understand how work in information systems impacts broader aspects of clinical and business decision-making. Looking at nursing informatics through the lens of health informatics will develop students' ability to visualize, conceptualize, and understand how work in information systems has an impact on the broader aspects of clinical decision-making and support. Further, this paradigm shift will enhance students' ability to utilize information systems in leadership decision-making as future knowledge workers.