NURS 6051 Interaction Between Nurse Informaticists and Other Specialists
NURS 6051 Interaction Between Nurse Informaticists and Other Specialists
Great job on your discussion post. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on interactions between nurse informaticists and other technology specialists. You posed several ideas to improve interactions between nurse informaticists and other healthcare professionals, including face-to-face educational sessions, unit rounding, and promoting an environment where staff is encouraged to expand their knowledge. Promoting a healthy learning environment that fosters the development and use of health technology tools and systems is an interesting approach that I will expand more on in this response.
The utilization of nurse managers is essential in creating a learning-inspired environment. Nurse managers should lead by example. According to Mather and Cummings (2017), nurse leaders, such as managers, must know how to use health technology devices and systems relevant to their clinical area of practice. This know-how is essential for nurse managers to achieve because they model digital literacy for those working around them, including staff nurses, medical aids, physicians, and nursing students. When a nurse informaticists approaches a unit or department with new systems or processes, the nurse leader must show receptiveness towards both the nurse informaticists and new technology or system. The positive behavior demonstrated by the manager can directly impact the attitudes and actions of others on the unit.
Your post also mentions that nurse informaticists can increase communication with other healthcare team members through the development of project management skills to promote the smooth deployment of nursing informatics projects. I also agree that project management skills will play an important role in these interactions. According to McGonigle and Mastrian (2018), smart leadership acknowledges that different subject experts exist within the project team. Leadership should shift from expert to expert as the team takes on different portions of the project. The nurse informaticists may lean more heavily on staff nurses for clinical expertise, while those staff nurses may lean on the informaticist for technology system development. This realization will aid the nurse informaticist in becoming a successful project manager and improve interactions and collaboration among team members.
References
Mather, C., & Cummings, E. (2017). Modelling digital knowledge transfer: Nurse supervisors transforming learning at point of care to advance nursing practice. Informatics, 4(2), 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics4020012
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundatio
