NURS 6051 THE ROLE OF THE NURSE INFORMATICIST IN SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION The Role of the Nurse Informaticist in Systems Development and Implementation
NURS 6051 THE ROLE OF THE NURSE INFORMATICIST IN SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
The Role of the Nurse Informaticist in Systems Development and Implementation
Within the healthcare setting, the role of the nurse informaticist is to help in the dissemination of evidence-based practice to all practitioners and stakeholders. Nurse informaticists literally “inform” nurse and healthcare practitioners alike regarding the results of evidence-based practice (EBP) via effective dissemination strategies. The nurse informaticist will base their dissemination strategy on the unique needs of their respective healthcare team. They are also involved in helping the implementation team during the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). To ensure that the implementation stage of the SDLC is sound, a nurse leaders must be on the implementation team.
Planning and Requirements
The unit is at the initial steps for implementing a new nursing documentation system. This will require systems development and technical teams in order to begin the preemptive assessment of changes that will be present in the new system (Castiglione, 2020). It is imperative to have the nurses within the unit understand that they must also be involved and participate in the SDLC for the new documentation method. Not only will the nurses’ involvement directly impact how they interact with the new system, but it also ensures they are participating and learning throughout the implementation process of the SDLC.
As the nurse leader, it will be required for the implementation team to have some involvement throughout each stage of the SDLC. Observations have proven that nurse practitioners who are more involved in the implementation process of technological systems or databases attain a greater technical understanding of their work (Bianchi et al., 2018). The implementation team will provide nurses with descriptive intelligence analyzing the process of the SDLC.
Analysis
In order to ensure that the new documentation system will be effective for the unit of general healthcare practitioners, the nurse leader will deploy an analysis team adjacent to the systems development party. The analysis team will assess the initial necessary steps and procedures to implementing the new documentation system. It is the role of the analysis team to examine the design of the new system for changes and similarities from the old system. For example, the analysis team members will alert the nurse leader and implementation team regarding where minor changes may be necessary in order to maintain the ease of accessibility from one system to the next (Bianchi et al., 2018). The analysis team will consist of nurse practitioners with a proficiency with the technical aspects of the SDLC and collaborative relationship with the implementation team.
Health organizations in the current world depend largely on health information technologies to achieve their performance goals and objectives. Health technologies facilitate organizational outcomes such as safety, quality, and efficiency. Health organizations rely on their staff, including advanced registered nurses in the analysis of a technology need and its implementation for use in the provision of patient care services. Therefore, this paper examines the roles of a graduate-level nurse in guiding the implementation team in the adoption of a new system. It utilizes the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Role Description
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process utilized in the development and adoption of technologies in healthcare. It comprises steps that include planning, analysis, design, implementation, and post-implementation. The graduate-level nurse plays several roles in each of these steps. Planning is the first stage in SDLC. It mainly focuses on determining system requirements and determining the need for a system in an organization. The graduate-level nurse obtains system requirements from different stakeholders in this step. They also define system requirements and project on the feasibility and need for the system in the organization. The information helps them in prioritizing the framework to be used in designing and implementing the system for use in the organization (Hussey, 2021). The nurse also participants in developing the expected budget and resources that are needed for the proposed system.
The second stage in SDLC is system analysis. Analysis entails the determination of the technical and functional requirements of the system. The graduate-level nurse guides the organization and its stakeholders in determining how the system will deliver the anticipated re