Reflecting on the role as an APRN as it relates to collaboration between your role as a Family Nurse Practitioner and the nursing informatics specialist
Hi everyone, and welcome to my blog for GSNG 6700. My name is Maggie Strout, and I am a graduate family nurse practitioner student at Roberts Wesleyan College. I am exploring the world of nursing informatics and learning what it takes to become an informatics specialist. This week in my blog, we are going to look at the role of FNPs and its collaborative role as an informatics specialist.
As a future Family Nurse Practitioner(FNP)my role will include bridging the gap in clinical care and technology by exploring the evolving new world of informatics. With the demand for technology in healthcare growing, we all will soon need to be informatics specialists in order to provide quality, evidence-based patient care. This collaborative effort between FNP and the technology world can truly boost patient outcomes if used carefully.
First, let's look at all that an FNP does. FNPs not only see patients and preform assessments, make diagnosis, create treatment plans and prescribe medications (Dantas et al., 2023). They also collaborate with other disciplines and specialties to provide excellent patient care (Dantas et al., 2023). They utilize different tools and technologies to communicate with patients and other providers, monitor at home testing results from patients utilizing telehealth devices, and a plethora of other jobs! FNPs are used to the collaborative side of medicine, incorporating nursing informatics simply makes their jobs more accessible and provide better care for their patients.
Nursing informatics as defined by the ANA is "integration of nursing science, computer science, and information
science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and
wisdom in nursing practice"(American Nurses Association, 2023). Nursing informatics to most of us who have been nurses for less than 10 years or so used to the most common technologies we use today that we would struggle using paper charts and would be lost without our WOWs. Once electronic health records (EHRs) were put into everyday use many nurses and NPs become superusers and tech leaders (American Association of Nurse Practioners , 2019).
Having access to the technology we use every day as nurses now, such as eRecord, myChart, Pacs7, and many others, will help us transition to our roles as FNPs much smoother than if we were not utilizing these technologies daily. With all of the advancements in medical technology that are occurring and being brought into our facilities currently, by the time we are FNPs, the technology we will be using will far surpass what it is now. The collaborative efforts that nursing teaches you from the start will help us collaborate with superusers, educators, and team leads to learn the technology we will use as future FNPs. I hope that as I advance in my career, I stay open to learning new technology and am proficient enough to help other providers and, most importantly, patients when they need it.
References
- American Association of Nurse Practioners . (2019, February 6). Going Beyond the EHR: Health Care Informatics. American Association of Nurse Practitioners; AANP Website. https://www.aanp.org/news-feed/going-beyond-the-ehr-health-care-informatics
- American Nurses Association. (2023, July 5). What is nursing informatics and why is it so important? ANA. https://www.nursingworld.org/content-hub/resources/nursing-resources/nursing-informatics/
- Dantas, M., Pereira, I., Freitas, L. S., Karine, S., Sonenberg, A., & Katherinne, I. (2023). Family Nurse Practitioners: An exploratory study. Revista Da Escola de Enfermagem Da USP, 57(57). https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-220x-reeusp-2022-0362en
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