About Nursing Informatics

“Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice. Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information and knowledge to support patients, nurses and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology.”

(ANA Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice, 2001, pg vii)

Clinical Informatics Team
The Clinical Informatics Team assists nurses, physicians, and other clinicians with education, implementation, change management, and issue resolution processes in support of our electronic medical record (EMR) and related applications. This team is a combined effort of the Clinical Information System Department, the Department of Nursing and IT Systems Training to bridge the gap between the computer and clinical worlds. The Informatics team is involved in a specialty that includes the development, support, and evaluation of applications, tools, processes, and structures that help clinicians to manage data in direct care of patients. This includes any and all aspects of information systems including theory formulation, design, development, marketing, selection, testing, implementation, training, maintenance, evaluation, and enhancement. Our Informaticists are engaged in clinical practice, education, consultation, research, and administration. Our informaticists are Master’s trained with a focus in healthcare informatics or a related field. The Informatics team has in-depth knowledge and expertise in healthcare informatics, with a combined average of 12 years experience in a clinical nursing role and ancillary processes.

The Clinical Informatics Team is responsible for:

Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the design and activation of clinical information systems as well as other technical devices introduced to the clinical environment
Ongoing training and change management associated with clinical information systems and new technical devices used in the clinical environment
Assuring operational integrity and integration of clinical information systems
QI / Policy and Procedure evaluation with transformation and updates

Our current Informatics Nurse Specialist team includes Lydia Cruz, R.N., MS, Craig Johnson, R.N., MSN, Joan Lloyd-Collins, R.N., MS, Naomi Mercier, R.N., MSN and Manager, Sandy Torres R.N., MSN. Also on our team, is a Clinical Informatics Associate, Dana Born-Thomsen, R.N. and an Administrative Analyst, Sharon Hookfin.

Clinical Applications
There are a number of electronic systems support clinicians for the retrieval of patient data, and documentation. The applications are: Traceview © which allows capture of information on patients during labor and delivery; Clinical Vision© which captures dialysis information, PICIS © which creates a repository for data during care of the perioperative patient, and UCare is UCSF Medical Center’s electronic medical record.

UCare Communication Resources from Clinical Informatics
Bulletins and Flyers: For updates, system maintenance announcements, and changes to the screens or functions of UCare, the Clinical Informatics team issues bulletins and flyers that are distributed to and posted on the nursing units.

Email updates: In some cases the Clinical Informatics team will send UCare related email correspondence to nurses, managers, and other clinical staff. If you need to send an email correspondence to the Clinical Informatics team, use the following address sandra.torres@ucsfmedctr.org

Meetings/In-Services: Clinical Informatics team members attend unit staff meetings throughout the year to help with communication, clarification and processes related to UCare. Our team can also provide specialized in-services related to UCare, as time permits. If you need to contact the Clinical Informatics team regarding a request for a UCare in-service or participation in a staff meeting, email sandra.torres@ucsfmedctr.org

Suggestion Box: Suggestion box is an electronic mode of communication through UCare to the Informatics team by any end-user. The suggestion box option is a feature of the UCare base screen (the Clinical Command Screen). The requests and suggestions by clinicians using the system daily are reviewed individually and frequently integrated into the UCare system.




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This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology.” (ANA Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice, 2001, pg vii) Clinical Informatics Team The Clinical Informatics Team assists nurses, physicians, and other clinicians with education, implementation, change management, and issue resolution processes in support of our electronic medical record (EMR) and related applications. This team is a combined effort of the Clinical Information System Department, the Department of Nursing and IT Systems Training to bridge the gap between the computer and clinical worlds. The Informatics team is involved in a specialty that includes the development, support, and evaluation of applications, tools, processes, and structures that help clinicians to manage data in direct care of patients. This includes any and all aspects of information systems including theory formulation, design, development, marketing, selection, testing, implementation, training, maintenance, evaluation, and enhancement. Our Informaticists are engaged in clinical practice, education, consultation, research, and administration. Our informaticists are Master’s trained with a focus in healthcare informatics or a related field. The Informatics team has in-depth knowledge and expertise in healthcare informatics, with a combined average of 12 years experience in a clinical nursing role and ancillary processes. The Clinical Informatics Team is responsible for: Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the design and activation of clinical information systems as well as other technical devices introduced to the clinical environment Ongoing training and change management associated with clinical information systems and new technical devices used in the clinical environment Assuring operational integrity and integration of clinical information systems QI / Policy and Procedure evaluation with transformation and updates Our current Informatics Nurse Specialist team includes Lydia Cruz, R.N., MS, Craig Johnson, R.N., MSN, Joan Lloyd-Collins, R.N., MS, Naomi Mercier, R.N., MSN and Manager, Sandy Torres R.N., MSN. Also on our team, is a Clinical Informatics Associate, Dana Born-Thomsen, R.N. and an Administrative Analyst, Sharon Hookfin. Clinical Applications There are a number of electronic systems support clinicians for the retrieval of patient data, and documentation. The applications are: Traceview © which allows capture of information on patients during labor and delivery; Clinical Vision© which captures dialysis information, PICIS © which creates a repository for data during care of the perioperative patient, and UCare is UCSF Medical Center’s electronic medical record. UCare Communication Resources from Clinical Informatics Bulletins and Flyers: For updates, system maintenance announcements, and changes to the screens or functions of UCare, the Clinical Informatics team issues bulletins and flyers that are distributed to and posted on the nursing units. Email updates: In some cases the Clinical Informatics team will send UCare related email correspondence to nurses, managers, and other clinical staff. If you need to send an email correspondence to the Clinical Informatics team, use the following address sandra.torres@ucsfmedctr.org Meetings/In-Services: Clinical Informatics team members attend unit staff meetings throughout the year to help with communication, clarification and processes related to UCare. Our team can also provide specialized in-services related to UCare, as time permits. If you need to contact the Clinical Informatics team regarding a request for a UCare in-service or participation in a staff meeting, email sandra.torres@ucsfmedctr.org Suggestion Box: Suggestion box is an electronic mode of communication through UCare to the Informatics team by any end-user. The suggestion box option is a feature of the UCare base screen (the Clinical Command Screen). The requests and suggestions by clinicians using the system daily are reviewed individually and frequently integrated into the UCare system.
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