The document discusses nursing informatics and its relevance for nursing education. It defines informatics as the science of computer information systems and the practice of information processing. It notes that while some universities offer limited coverage of electronic health records and telehealth, most do not have dedicated nursing informatics education. The document advocates that nursing students are natural users and generators of information and that educators should teach students to more effectively look for, find, interpret, share and generate information using tools like social media, infographics and common data elements. It argues nursing students do not need to become programmers or analysts but rather comfortable using information technologies.

1. Nursing informatics
for education
Roger Watson PhD FAAN
2nd Asian Congress in Nursing Education (ACiNE)
Tainan, Taiwan
28 January 2016

9. Dr David Barrett
Nursing ‘informatics’ at Hull
• We don't do anything on 'pure' nursing informatics. The pre-
reg nurses get some insight on electronic patient records
(mainly from a day-to-day usage perspective) and I do
something with them on telehealth in year 2, but that's about
it.

12. What is informatics?
Informatics is the science of computer information systems.
As an academic field it involves the practice of information
processing, and the engineering of information systems. The
field considers the interaction humans and information
alongside the construction of interfaces organisation,
technology and system.
(Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics;
accessed 26 October 2015)

13. What is informatics?
Informatics is the science of computer information systems.
As an academic field it involves the practice of information
processing, and the engineering of information systems. The
field considers the interaction humans and information
alongside the construction of interfaces organisation,
technology and system.
(Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics;
accessed 26 October 2015)

14. What is informatics?
Informatics is the science of computer information systems.
As an academic field it involves the practice of information
processing, and the engineering of information systems. The
field considers the interaction humans and information
alongside the construction of interfaces organisation,
technology and system.
(Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics;
accessed 26 October 2015)

15. What is informatics?
Informatics is the science of computer information systems.
As an academic field it involves the practice of information
processing, and the engineering of information systems. The
field considers the interaction humans and information
alongside the construction of interfaces organisation,
technology and system.
(Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics;
accessed 26 October 2015)

16. What is informatics?
Informatics is the science of computer information systems.
As an academic field it involves the practice of information
processing, and the engineering of information systems. The
field considers the interaction humans and information
alongside the construction of interfaces organisation,
technology and system.
(Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics;
accessed 26 October 2015)

23. Informatics for nursing education
• Where do our students get information?
• Where do we get information?

24. Informatics for nursing education
• Where do our patients get information?
HON survey 2005

25. Informatics for nursing education
• Where do our patients get information?

26. Students use:

28. Informatics for nursing education
• What do our students do with information?

29. Informatics for nursing education
• How do our students share information?

30. BUT…do you feel like this?
I just don’t
get social
media

32. Information overload

33. How do we teach our students about
informatics?

39. Journal of Professional Nursing (2005)

41. We are not producing
• Programmers
• Systems analysts
• Computer scientists
• Information technologists

42. We are trying to produce
Nurses who are comfortable
• Looking for
• Finding
• Interpreting
….information

49. From informatics to infographics

55. Interactive infographics

65. Common data elements

66. Common data elements
• conceptually defined as variables that are operationalized
and measured in identical ways across studies, enables
comparison of data across studies in ways that would
otherwise be impossible

68. Summary
• ‘Informatics’ is probably a piece of jargon
• Our students are natural users of information
• We should teach them as if we know that
• Our students are natural generators of information
• We should teach them to do that better

69. r.watson@hull.ac.uk
0000-0001-8040-7625
@rwatson1955