Summary NURS FPX4040 Assessment1 1.docx 1 NURS-FPX 4040 Nursing Informatics in Health Care Capella University NURS-FPX 4040: Managing Health Information and Technology Nursing Informatics in Health Care Due to our organization s recent technological chan

NURS FPX4040 Assessment1 1 NURS-FPX 4040 Nursing Informatics in Health Care Capella University NURS-FPX 4040: Managing Health Information and Technology Nursing Informatics in Health Care Due to our organization s recent technological changes, it is important to integrate the role of a nurse informaticist. I prepared this proposal for the chief nursing officer and human resources manager in hopes of supporting this new role to justify the return on investment. Within this proposal, I will describe nurses and the interdisciplinary team s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making and implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information. Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist To begin, nursing informatics is best defined by the American Nurses Association (ANA) as, €œthe specialty that in