The current state of Nursing Informatics – An international cross-sectional survey

Abstract

An international survey to explore current and future trends in Nursing Informatics (NI) was done in 2015. This article explores responses to questions about: what should be done to further develop NI as an independent discipline; existing policies and standards influencing NI; perceived support towards NI as a discipline; and advice from NI specialists to students and emerging professionals.Nurse and allied health professionals in academia and practice were reached with snowball sampling. Open-ended questions were analysed with thematic content analysis and the mean and standard deviation is reported for the perceived support towards NI (scale ranging from 1 (not at all supportive) to 10 (very supportive)).A total of 507 respondents from 46 countries responded to the survey. Respondents reported mediocre support towards NI from the environment (M 5.79, SD 2.60). Results showed that NI education needs development to better meet practice demands, that current NI resources seem insufficient, that NI expertise is not used to its full potential in health institutions and the community, and that NI needs to show its value through research and increase visibility to be recognised among stakeholders worldwide.In conclusion, there is a need to clarify NI as a discipline and a need for strong leadership to impact policy making. An increase in NI teaching at undergraduate level in nursing as well as an increase in postgraduate NI programmes worldwide would better support practice demands. National policies and international white papers in NI are needed to guide resource distribution to better support practice.

Emerging Professionals’ Observations of Opportunities and Challenges in Nursing Informatics

“…Masters-level education in NI is still not available in many countries, although it has existed for three decades in the United States (Cummins et al 2016). Our findings support previous literature showing that NI education, certification and informatics nurse specialist roles are also not well adopted globally (Cummings et al 2016;Egbert et al 2018;Peltonen et al 2019).…”

“…NI expertise is needed to steer adoption of information technology in healthcare (Greenwood 2010), but the informatics nurse specialist role and the importance of NI are not yet well recognized in all countries. This is in line with mediocre expressed support toward NI (Peltonen et al 2019). A lack of recognition and role development possibilities has similarly characterized advanced nursing roles in the past (Kilpatrick et al 2013).…”

“…NI education started at the graduate level in the 1980s and at the postgraduate level in 2003 in the United States (Hannah et al 2006), and NI certification is available in the United States (Cummings et al 2016). However, NI education at graduate and postgraduate levels is not available across the world (Peltonen et al 2019).…”

Andra’s Nursing Informatic System Application (Annisa) dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Perawat tentang Dokumentasi Keperawatan

“…Aspek dokumentasi asuhan keperawatan meliputi: pengkajian, diganosa, intervensi, implementasi berdasarkan lima strategi intervensi keperawatan komunitas dan evaluasi (Giacomo & Santin, 2019;Peltonen et al, 2019).…”

Analyzing Nursing Students’ Relation to Electronic Health and Technology as Individuals and Students and in Their Future Career (the eNursEd Study): Protocol for a Longitudinal Study

“…The concept of health informatics is continuously developing [21], and the increasing digitalization of health care has identified the need for both general and specific digital competence and digital literacy in the nursing profession and education [22-24]. However, nursing informatics research on education, clinical practice, administration, and theory is scarce, with the theory being the least common [25]. Digitization has developed care practices, provides opportunities for the nurse to monitor patients at home, and facilitates control of patients, medications, etc [9,26,27].…”