COMPETENCY

How do you determine what skills or qualities will benefit you as a leader in your healthcare

organization or nursing practice?

This question might be answered through the analysis of nursing informatics competencies. The

analysis of these competencies provides a context for the qualities needed to effectively lead and

implement projects in your healthcare organization or nursing practice.  

For this Assignment, complete the nursing informatics competency assessment survey to

determine what skills you may or may not have acquired. Utilizing the assessment survey, you

will explore the importance of these competencies in nursing practice, as well as in the

implementation of nursing informatics projects in your practice.

TO PREPARE

 Review the “Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice” learning resource

to explore competencies related to nursing practice.

 Consider the role of competencies in nursing practice. Which competencies may be

the most beneficial for project management and nursing informatics?

 Reflect on which skills you might currently possess and how you might become

competent in others.

 Complete the “Advanced Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment L3/L4

(NICA) Survey” in this week’s Learning Resources to assist you in evaluating the

competencies.

THE ASSIGNMENT: (3 – 4) PAGES, AND COMPLETED NURSING INFORMATICS

COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT SURVEY)

 Explain what competencies are most important and beneficial for your success

as a leader in your practice. Be specific and provide examples.

 Appraise the leadership strategies, addressed in Standard 11, that you might

employ to establish a culture that supports new information technology

initiatives. Be specific. (Please review standard 11 of the American Nurses

Association standards of practice)

 Analyze whether or not you currently have these skills. Then, explain

approaches you might recommend implementing to become competent or more

proficient in this skill.

 

Note: Be sure to include the completed Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Survey

with your paper. (I will complete This assessment myself)

Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page,

introduction, summary, and references. The Sample Paper provided at the Walden Writing

Center provides an example of those required elements (available

 

at https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general#s-lg-box-20293632Links

to an external site.). All papers submitted must use this formatting.

Resources

 American Nurses Association. (2015). Nursing informaticsLinks to an external

site.: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.).

o “Inofrmatics Competnecies: Spanning Careers and Roles” (pp.

41–47)

o “Standard 6: “Evaluation” (pp. 78).

o “Standard 12: “Leadership” (pp. 87–88)

 

 Document: Advanced Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment L3/L4

(NICA) Survey Download Advanced Nursing Informatics Competency

Assessment L3/L4 (NICA) Survey(Word document)

 

Competencies

 American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2021). The essentials: Core

competencies for professional nursing educationLinks to an external site..

https://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/AcademicNursing/pdf/Essentials-

2021.pdf

o Domain 5, “Quality and Safety” (pp. 11)

o Domain 7, “Systems-Based Practice” (pp. 11)

o Domain 8: “Informatics and Healthcare Technologies” (pp. 11)

o “Advanced-Level Practicum Experiences” (p. 22)

o Advanced Level Competencies: Domain 5: “Quality and Safety” (pp.

39–41)

o Advanced Level Competencies: Domain 7: “Systems-Based Practice”

(pp.

44–45)

o Advanced Level Competencies: Domain 8: “Informatics and

Healthcare Technologies” (pp. 46–48)

 

 Hübner, U., Thye, J., Shaw, T., Elias, B., Egbert, N., Saranto, K., Babitsch, B.,

Procter, P., & Ball, M. J. (2019). Towards the TIGER international framework for

recommendations of core competencies in health informatics 2.0: Extending

the scope and the rolesLinks to an external site.. Studies in Health Technology and

Informatics, 264, 1218–1222. doi:10.3233/SHTI190420

 Kinnunen, U.-M., Heponiemi, T., Rajalahti, E., Ahonen, O., Korhonen, T., &

Hyppönen, H. (2019). Factors related to health informatics competencies for

nurses—results of a national electronic health record surveyLinks to an

external site.. Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 37(8), 420–429.

doi:10.1097/CIN.0000000000000511

 Kleib, M., Chauvette, A., Furlong, K., Nagle, L., Slater, L., & McCloskey, R.

(2021). Approaches for defining and assessing nursing informatics

 

competencies: A scoping reviewLinks to an external site.. JBI Evidence Synthesis,

19(4), 794–841. doi:10.11124/JBIES-20-00100

 Monsen, K. A., Bush, R., Jones, J., Manos, L. E., Skiba, D., & Johnson. S.

(2019). Alignment of American Association of Colleges of Nursing graduate

level nursing informatics competencies with American Medical Informatics

Association health informatics core competenciesLinks to an external site.. CIN:

Computers, Informatics Nursing, 37(8), 396–404.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000000537

 Strudwick, G., Nagle, L., Kassam, I., Pahwa, M., & Sequeira, L. (2019). Informatics

competencies for nurse leaders: A scoping reviewLinks to an external

site.. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 49(6), 323–330.

doi:10.1097/NNA.0000000000000760

 

Optional Resources

 Collins, S., Yen, P.-Y., Phillips, A., & Kennedy, M. K. (2017). Nursing informatics

competency assessment for the nurse leader: The Delphi study. The Journal of

Nursing AdministrationLinks to an external site., 47(4), 212–218.

doi:10.1097/NNA.0000000000000467

 National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute.

(n.d.). Method for introducing a new competency: genomicsLinks to an external

site. (MINC). https://genomicsintegration.net/ 

 Pordeli, L. (2017). Informatics competency-based assessment: Evaluations and

determination of nursing informatics competency gaps among practicing nurse

informaticists. Sigma RepositoryLinks to an external site..

https://sigma.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/622563