Informatics Nurse Specialists

• Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts.
• Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.
• Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists.
• Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers using object-oriented models or other techniques.
• Identify, collect, record or analyze data that are relevant to the nursing care of patients.
• Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.
• Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research.
• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics.
• Provide consultation to nurses regarding hardware or software configuration.
• Develop, implement or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes or structures to assist nurses with data management.
• Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public.
• Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications to resolve clinical or health care administrative problems.
• Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
• Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration and research.
• Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research.
• Inform local, state, national and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development and economics.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Informatics Nurse Specialists.

• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Informatics Nurse Specialists.