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Annotated Bibliography
Michael Fairchild
Dixie State University

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NOTE: The main theme of this annotated bibliography is to explore the literature regarding the
current and future state of nursing informatics and the responsibility that leadership/management
has in aiding the advancement of Nursing Informatics.

Cooper, A., Hamer, S. (2012). Strategic leadership skills for nursing informatics. Nursing Times;
108: 20, 25-26. Retrieved from: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1012394160
According to the authors, Anne Cooper who is national clinical lead for nursing;
and Susan Hamer who is national director of nursing, midwifery and allied health
professionals, Nurses need to integrate information and information technology
into routine practice and embrace opportunities to manage care in new ways. The
authors explored these five key points: 1. Nursing informatics has often been seen
as the province of specialists. 2. There is an urgent need for professionals to
embrace technology to meet healthcare demands. 3. The Leadership for Informed
Practice program is designed to link leadership to informatics in nursing and
midwifery. 4. Social media have great potential to help patients self-care but
there is little evidence of practitioners using them for this purpose. 5. Most
program participants see nursing informatics as part of all nurses' and midwives'
daily work. The authors suggest that the reader follows the guidelines from the
Leadership for Informed Practice. The Leadership for Informed Practice
development program is designed to link leadership to informatics in nursing and

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midwifery, and to give participants time to develop new strategic leadership

behaviors and apply these to informatics.
Nickitas, D. M., PhD, RN, C.N.A.A., B.C., & Kerfoot, K., PhD, RN, C.N.A.A., F.A.A.N. (2010).
Nursing informatics: Why nurse leaders need to stay informed. Nursing Economics,
28(3), 141-141, 158. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/577370360
According to the authors, Nickitas PhD, and Kerfoot PhD, they believe the use of
IT to improve the efficiency, safety, and quality of health care delivery combined
with the unique role of nursing warrants our undivided attention. Nursing leaders
have a dual responsibility to develop systems in the world of IT to first, enable
safer patient care and second, to support the work of managers and leaders by
leveraging IT. Competency in clinical IT is an essential foundational tool for the
leadership practice of managers and leaders and will become more important in
the future as we develop more sophisticated clinical IT. They went on to say Ever
since the passage of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, nurse leaders
have come to recognize the promise made by President Obama when he
committed federal funding of $19 billion in incentives allocated towards
"meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) in hospitals and ambulatory
settings beginning in 2011 and ensuring that all medical records will be digitized
by 2014. This commitment towards computerized health records will help avoid
dangerous mistakes, reduce costs, and improve quality. The EHR helps connect
and align patient-centered care into information that is distilled and used for good
decision making towards improving quality and patient safety.

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Cipriano, P. F. (2011). The future of nursing and health IT: The quality elixir. Nursing
Economics, 29(5), 286-9, 282. Ret. from http://search.proquest.com/docview/898419527
The author, Cipriano, P. PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, begins by talking about a
previous report and then continues to expound on that information. The 2010
landmark report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2010) and Robert Wood
Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing
Health, proposes criteria to transform the nursing profession, leading to new roles
and leadership positions for nurses in the redesign of the health care system.
Following on this report, there are specific nursing informatics actions that
support the report's recommendations, as nurses will be the key leaders to develop
the infrastructure for effective and efficient health information technology that
transforms the quality of health care. In this article, Dr. Cipriano does a wonderful
job of describing how we can use technology and informatics to support the
execution of these recommendations. She goes on to say as nurses embrace a
leadership role in transforming health care, we also embrace technology. Each of
the recommendations in the Future of Nursing report has opportunities to advance
the use of health IT. Just as the doctoral student must be savvy in technology, so
must all nurses in leadership positions. It is not sufficient to delegate
responsibility for implementation of health IT systems to technically competent
staff. Leaders with fiduciary and strategic responsibilities are positioned to ensure
the right technology is put in place, and the organization is using it to its capacity.
The Future of Nursing report asks if all types of nurses will "hear the call" to lead
change. One group answering the call is nurse informaticians.

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Simpson, R. L. (2013). Chief Nurse Executives need contemporary informatics competencies.

Nursing Economics, 31(6), 277-87. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1477880109?accountid=27045
The author, Simpson, R.L. DNP, RN, DPNAP, FAAN, is Vice President, Nursing,
Cerner Corporation, states that while a thorough understanding of technology's
impact on patient care remains the responsibility of nurse informaticians, CNEs
will need to possess a broad, working knowledge of IT to safeguard patient care
outcomes. The nurse informatician's role is to carry the vision of the CNE and
nursing leadership team forward to application through technological innovations.
He continues to talk about how the Informatics specialist and the nurse leadership
team need to work together for the best possible patient outcomes. There were a
few drawback from this study as stated by Simpson. The research did not attempt
to gauge the nursing informatics expertise of nurses outside the CNE ranks. Nor
did the research examine nurse informaticists knowledge of CNEs employed in
settings other than multihospital network IDSs. The study did not address the
frequency or appropriateness of CNEs' decisions to delegate decision making,
responsibility, and/or accountability to the integrated delivery systems' IT
organization.
Cooper, A. (2014). It's just not good enough in 2014 to say 'I don't do technology'.
NursingTimes.Net. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1544231667
The author, Anne Cooper who is national clinical lead for nursing, states that
Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer

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science and information science to manage and communicate data, information

and knowledge in nursing practice. She continues and makes the bold statement
that Nursing informatics is everyone's business in 2014. She finishes by stating
that she believes that those nurses who specialize in informatics should live with
this family of nurses, with clear responsibility and accountability to the nursing
leadership in organizations and not be seen as a nurse who works in the IT
Department.
Stonham, G., Heyes, B., Owen, A., & Povey, E. (2012). Measuring the nursing contribution
using electronic records. Nursing Management, 19(8), 28-32. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1223820541?accountid=27045
The authors, Gill Stonham is program head at the Department of Health
informatics directorate, Barbara Heyes is business development consultant, Anne
Owen is clinical informaticist, Erin Povey is senior staff nurse information and
clinical information systems project nurse, examined the roles and responsibilities
of nurses as data collectors and concludes that strong nursing leadership in the
field of informatics is needed to influence and shape the data collected and ensure
that nurses' professional contribution to patient care is captured. Nurse leaders
must take responsibility for the data being collected by nurses, to ensure that they
are accurate, detailed, reusable, readable and clinically relevant to the delivery of
integrated care. Nurse leaders need to ensure that nurses have informatics skills
embedded in their competency frameworks and performance reviews, and that
they can see what is expected of them in the new way of working. Nurses with
specialist skills in informatics will have great influence, bringing expertise in

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computer and information science to manage and communicate data, information

and knowledge in nursing practice. As professionals, it is important for us to
understand the relationship between these three elements and their significance in
terms of delivering good patient care. They concluded by saying Healthcare staff
are required increasingly to demonstrate good service delivery, and nurses need to
engage rapidly with informatics to ensure that they have a role in determining
how they can best express through informatics the contribution that nursing
makes to patient care.