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The COVID-19 pandemic requires an urgent action to transform health-care delivery and to promote research and capacity-building nursing programs. Specifically, many countries at the global level have described nursing informatics as an essential competence for nurse professionals. In Peru, nursing personnel represents the largest health workforce group and nursing informatics is still emerging, but the field appear to hold much promise. In this sense, the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MoH) defined in 2020 the core nursing competences, which included a technology and innovation domain. The competence established to apply scientifically based technology and innovation to improve the processes or health service resources. The minimum competencies established by the MoH were as follows: to carry out innovations in processes or resources in their different professional performance areas, to creatively adapt technology in different areas of professional performance, to make rational and ethical use of health technologies with focus on new developments that will be evaluated and applied critically, and to manage information and communication technologies, and health information systems, with emphasis on telehealth (i.e. telemedicine, telecare management, tele-education, and tele-training). Besides the nursing competences defined by the MoH is a good starting point, this special contribution discusses the urgent need to strengthen nursing informatics competencies in Peru.
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COVID-19/epidemiology , Evidence-Based Nursing/organization & administration , Nursing Informatics/organization & administration , Professional Competence/standards , COVID-19/nursing , Humans , Medical Informatics/organization & administration , PeruABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To provide a summary of research on ontology development in the Centre of eIntegrated Care at Dublin City University, Ireland. DESIGN: Design science methods using Open Innovation 2.0. METHODS: This was a co-participatory study focusing on adoption of health informatics standards and translation of nursing knowledge to advance nursing theory through a nursing knowledge graph (NKG). In this article we outline groundwork research conducted through a focused analysis to advance structural interoperability and to inform integrated care in Ireland. We provide illustrated details on a simple example of initial research available through open access. FINDINGS: For this phase of development, the initial completed research is presented and discussed. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude by promoting the use of knowledge graphs for visualization of diverse knowledge translation, which can be used as a primer to gain valuable insights into nursing interventions to inform big data science in the future. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: In line with stated global policy, the uptake and use of health informatics standards in design science within the profession of nursing is a priority. Nursing leaders should initially focus on health informatics standards relating to structural interoperability to inform development of NKGs. This will provide a robust foundation to gain valuable insights into articulating the nursing contribution in relation to the design of digital health and progress the nursing contribution to targeted data sources for the advancement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Three.
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Big Data , Computer Graphics , Knowledge , Nursing Informatics , Humans , Nursing Theory , Translational Research, BiomedicalSubject(s)
Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis , Coronavirus Infections/therapy , Disease Management , Leadership , Nurse Administrators/education , Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis , Pneumonia, Viral/therapy , Point-of-Care Systems , Quality of Health Care , Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification , COVID-19 , Humans , Nursing Informatics , Pandemics , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
Hospitals and healthcare systems have nursing informaticists who contribute to quality patient care and safety by managing data and facilitating the use of technology. Schools typically do not employ nurses specifically in positions labeled as nursing informaticists, though the role is critical in the schools. This article highlights the subspecialty of nursing informatics within the school nurse role. Three school nurses will share their use of nursing informatics skills to optimize student health.