NR 541 Week 2 Discussion; NI Functional Areas, Competencies, and Supporting Sciences

Week2:NIFunctionalAreas,Competencies,andSupportingSciences TheAmericanNursesAssociationdescribed13functionalareasinNursingInformatics: Scope and Standards of Practice in its efforts to clarify whatinformaticsnursespecialistsdoandtohelpeliminatehistoricalconfusionassociated with the variety of different titles under which informatics nursespecialistswork.Nowthatyou havehad theopportunity toreview thisweek’slessonandtheNursingInformatics:ScopeandStandardsofPracticedocumentpleasediscuss eachofthefollowing: How do the functional areas outlined by the American Nurses Associationcompareandcontrastwithyourinitialthoughtsofwhatnursinginformaticspracticeentailed? Whichfunctionalarea(s)bestmatchyouraspirationsfornursinginformaticspracticeandwhy? How did your self-ranking reflect those functional areas, and what ifanything,doyouneedtodoorlearnmoreabouttoworkinthosefunctionalareas