Week 4: Informatics Skills
How do the informatics skills you are now developing/expanding upon and validating
help you meet current informatics skills levels? Did the TANIC self-assessment change
your impression of your current informatics skill levels?
The health care system is always changing, and with the evolution of technology, the
healthcare delivery system will have to keep up. The integration go nursing informatics
helps to do this, while supporting nursing practice and knowledge management. I think
that one of the most important component of informatics is knowledge. Knowing what to
do with the information provided is key, because anyone can be taught how to operate a
computer. Informatics knowledge competencies are the recognition of the use or
importance of nursing data for improving practice (Darvish et al., 2014). Computerized
monitoring systems can facilitate a nursing duty but it cannot perform the task or
critically think. For example, a patient who is scheduled for surgery tomorrow would
probably have any anticoagulants held. The patients MAR would not flag that unless the
