Role of the Nurse Informaticist in Systems Development and Implementation

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Nursing Science - Nursing Management, grade: A, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad (Institute of Business and IT), course: IT, language: English, abstract: The nurse informaticists play a critical role in conception and development of new technologies for improved health and management. They actively participate in gathering and providing comprehensive information about new workflows within the nursing system. Additionally, they help guide new nursing technologies towards continuous process improvement. Assuming the role of nurse manager, the nurse informaticist can play a pivotal role while working on a unit that requires the implementation of a new nursing documentation system. The nurse manager can ensure that the documentation system is well accepted among the nurse practitioners and that it is highly usable by the intended users, by onboarding a nurse leader to oversee the overall system development and implementation plan while adhering to the five stages of the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC).