Essential Skills and Knowledge for Advanced Registered Nurses in Healthcare Data and Information Technology

This article discusses the essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes that advanced registered nurses should possess to competently promote the use of healthcare data and information to improve care in a clinical setting and implement Quality Improvement and Safety in care. It also explores two ways by which information and technology can improve clinical practice, administration, education, and research.

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Essential knowledge, skills and attitudes that an advanced registered nurse should
possess to competently promote the use of healthcare data and information to improve
care in a clinical settings and help to implement Quality Improvement and Safety in
care.
In order to improve care in a clinical setting though the usage of information
technology and healthcare data, several important skills, knowledge and attitudes should be
possessed by advanced registered nurses, which include:
Skills:
Technical skills in the operation of computers, searching database, sending emails,
generating reports, conducting research, analyzing clinical and research data and performing
risk assessments are important skills that can promote the use of healthcare data and
information technology (Button et al., 2014).
Knowledge:
Knowledge on information technologies, healthcare, best practice guidelines and
policies can be useful to support the usage of information technology and healthcare data and
improve the quality of care in clinical setting (Westra et al., 2015).
Attitudes:
It is also important that the advanced registered nurse is ready to acquire new
technical skills as healthcare technology evolves constantly and should have a positive
attitude towards the utility of information technology (Lee & Clarke, 2015).

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Two ways by which information and technology can improve clinical practice,
administration, education and research.
Supporting Evidence Based Practice:
Through Information technology, it is possible to conduct research on studies that
provides the best clinical evidences and thereby help to promote the usage of best practices in
a healthcare setup. Evidence based practice also helps to support better clinical education,
research and administration, apart from improving the quality of care (White et al., 2016).
Efficient maintenance and sharing of healthcare records:
Information technology can help to manage the management of healthcare data and
records more efficient and secure. Storing healthcare data on centralized data servers can be
useful to ensure the security of data and its authorized access. Such an aspect can be useful
for clinical practice as it helps to maintain the standards on data privacy and security as well
as making the administration of the data more convenient (Piscotty et al., 2015).

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