Week 10: Nursing Informatics Competencies and Leadership Applications
To successfully manage, analyze, and implement the amount of data in healthcare organizations and practice, nurses need to possess certain informatics competencies. These competencies outline the necessary qualities one must possess to be successful as a doctorally prepared nurse.
By analyzing and evaluating these competencies, you will assess what qualities you might already possess, as well as identify those qualities you might need to strengthen. These competencies also provide a framework for the leadership skills needed to support, implement, and lead initiatives in your healthcare organization or nursing practice.
This week, you will focus on analyzing competencies for leadership in nursing practice. You will also consider the competencies you might recommend to enhance your leadership strategies and evaluate your leadership skills. You will also present your project findings, or hypothesize possible findings, for your small nursing informatics project.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Analyze competencies for leadership in nursing practice
- Recommend leadership strategies to support new information technology initiatives
- Justify approaches for competency and proficiency in leadership skills
- Present findings and lessons learned from implementation of a nursing informatics project
Learning Resources
Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)
Competencies (click to expand/reduce)
Optional Resources (click to expand/reduce)
Discussion: Final Project Presentation
- You have been working on your small nursing informatics project throughout the duration of the term, and now it is your opportunity to share with your colleagues.
As you share the details of your small nursing informatics project, reflect and consider your challenges, successes, goals, and outcomes related to how you managed and implemented your small nursing informatics project. What lessons have you learned along the way? What information might be most relevant to your colleagues and why?
To Prepare
- Create a 10- to 15-slide, narrated presentation of your final small nursing informatics project.
- Be sure to present the details of your small nursing informatics project, including any lessons learned from the implementation or proposed implementation of your project in your healthcare organization or nursing practice.
By Day 2 of Week 10
Post a 10- to 15-slide, narrated presentation of your final small nursing informatics project. Your audience is your stakeholders, and you should present the details of your project and findings from the implementation of your project.
By Day 5 of Week 10
View a selection of your colleagues’ presentations and respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by providing feedback and critique on the small nursing informatics project presented.
