TABERNA, CATHERINE T.

BSN 4-2

INSTRUCTION:

Search for a publication about the role of Nursing Informatics in crafting the Leadership and
Management concepts in support of delivering safe and effective patient care. Using your OWN
words, reflect on this following the guide and format in Journal reading.

TITILE: Informatics competencies for nurse leaders: protocol for a scoping review

SOURCE Iman Kassam, Informatics competencies for nurse leaders: protocol for a scoping
review from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735400/

INTRODUCTION
Nurses are increasingly using health information technologies in a variety of situations all
over the world. Nurse leaders, on the other hand, frequently lack the strategic and tactical
informatics skills required to assure their effective adoption and usage. Although informatics
competences and competency frameworks have been defined and established, the work done in
this area has yet to be reviewed or consolidated.

PROCEDURES
The objectives of this scoping review are to:
(1) identify informatics competencies of relevance to nurse leaders,
(2) identify frameworks or theories that have been used to develop informatics competencies for
nurse leaders,
(3) identify instruments used to assess the informatics competencies of nurse leaders and
(4) examine the psychometric properties of identified instruments.

FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION

The proposed scoping study is important because it will make it simpler to access and identify
informatics abilities for nurse leaders, which are now undocumented. The findings of this
scoping review will be useful to healthcare and academic institutions, nursing leadership
organizations (such as the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) and the Nursing
Leadership Network (NLN), advanced practice educators, nurse leaders, and informaticians in a
variety of roles and settings. As a result, distribution techniques aimed at these specific audiences
are being developed.
TABERNA, CATHERINE T.
BSN 4-2

PERSONAL COMMENT
Given the current prevalence of health information technology implementations
in Canadian healthcare settings, and the fact that nurses are typically the largest users of
these technologies, nursing leaders must possess the skills necessary to support the
successful procurement, design, and implementation of these technologies, these are
essentials for us, the future Nurse Leaders because nurse leaders who use technology can
improve outcomes for all stakeholders, including other nurses, consumers, patients and
healthcare teams, with the of use technologies these will to benefit the patients and
medical staff. As a nursing student, the findings of this scoping review will also be used
to guide a future study focused on the validation of an existing instrument used to assess
informatics competencies for nurse leaders in a Canadian setting.