Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not “understand the needs of nurses/nursing?”

From the interviewee’s experience, the most dominant challenge she has faced include interpreting nursing informatics in its correct context to other disciplines within the hospital. Staff from other disciplines fail to understand that nursing informatics is an extension of nursing practice, and thus they end up not appreciating the roles of nurse informaticists. Mostly, it is the subordinate staff who do not understand the necessity of nurse informaticists and often act unprofessionally towards them. Some of these unprofessional behaviors include using aggressive rhetoric and acting insubordinately toward us.