Week 2: NI Functional Areas, Competencies, and Supporting
Sciences
The American Nurses Association described 13 functional areas in
Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice in its efforts to
clarify what informatics nurse specialists do and to help eliminate
historical confusion associated with the variety of different titles under
which informatics nurse specialists work. Now that you have had the
opportunity to review this week’s lesson and the Nursing Informatics:
Scope and Standards of Practice document please discuss each of the
following:
How do the functional areas outlined by the American Nurses
Association compare and contrast with your initial thoughts of what
nursing informatics practice entailed?
Which functional area(s) best match your aspirations for nursing
informatics practice and why?
How did your self-ranking reflect those functional areas, and what if
anything, do you need to do or learn more about to work in those
functional areas?
Sciences
The American Nurses Association described 13 functional areas in
Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice in its efforts to
clarify what informatics nurse specialists do and to help eliminate
historical confusion associated with the variety of different titles under
which informatics nurse specialists work. Now that you have had the
opportunity to review this week’s lesson and the Nursing Informatics:
Scope and Standards of Practice document please discuss each of the
following:
How do the functional areas outlined by the American Nurses
Association compare and contrast with your initial thoughts of what
nursing informatics practice entailed?
Which functional area(s) best match your aspirations for nursing
informatics practice and why?
How did your self-ranking reflect those functional areas, and what if
anything, do you need to do or learn more about to work in those
functional areas?
