University Nursing Informatics Report: TIGER Initiative Analysis

This report examines the TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) initiative's impact on patient outcomes within nursing informatics. The study analyzes how TIGER protocols, a patient-centered approach, minimize symptoms, enhance recovery, and improve healthcare delivery. The report details the TIGER initiative's origins, its goals to prepare the nursing workforce for informatics and technology, and its three phases: summit, reporting, and HIMSS and foundation. It explores the initiative's efforts to develop informatics competencies, promote best practices, and support interprofessional collaboration to make healthcare equitable, timely, patient-centered, and efficient. The research highlights the successful implementation of TIGER protocols in various organizations, leading to improved patient results and cost reductions, emphasizing a system-wide approach to healthcare innovation. References include key research papers that support the findings.

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Abstract
In this study, impact of TIGER initiative on patient outcomes is analyzed. A research is carried out
on one of the initiative to develop the results by adopting this technology. Further, the literature has
demonstrated the insights of healthcare to make the innovation turn into reality using TIGER
initiative.

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Nursing Informatics: TIGER Initiative
The TIGER Leadership Collaborative Report aims to flesh out nursing requirements
regarding underway informatics revolution. The following report discusses the effect of TIGER to
have patient outcomes through promoting technology. Further, research is carried out here on a
TIGER initiative for developing those patient outcomes through technology adoption.
Impact of TIGER:
TIGER protocols being a patient centered approach minimizes symptoms, enhances
recovery, improves outcomes and helps safer delivery, efficient and value based nursing cares.
Moreover, they have been assuring that every member of the complete surgical team has been on
similar pare and been communicating a consistent message to their patients (El et al., 2017). TIGER
protocols have been including repetitions that have been very vital, particularly while stressful times
are been going on. Besides, their caretakers have been possessing resources guiding them during
recovery.
While patients are been scheduled for surgeries, they are supplied with various bag filled-up
with materials and resources through TIGER Tote. This guides them on their advent towards
recovery. Protocols have been presently established for patients, who have been undergoing radical
cystectomy surgery. However, there are plans in place to extend those protocols for colorectal,
thoracic, pancreas and liver surgeries (Hunter et al., 2015). There has been high success at same
organizations that implemented their individual enhanced TIGER protocols. Through
implementation of TIGER, patients have been experiencing much effective results, improvement in
quality and decrease in cost. This global approach is applied system wide as a complete cohesive
team.

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Research on TIGER initiative:
President of America in 2004 established goals that every people must have EHR or
Electronic Health Record by 2014. It was January 2005 when a central group of popular nursing
organization approached “TIGER Team” for a reform regarding Technology Informatics Guiding
Educational. They came to the decision that utilization of information has been a primary
competency for various professionals of healthcare in the present century. Further, there was an
argument that various nurses have leaked IT skills outside. Moreover, they have been using
informatics competencies within their roles. Then TIGER initiative came into being as a primary
initiative in the year 2006. It contained various supports from over seventy companies. It also
included a grant from “Robert Wood Johnson Foundation”. Next, the aim of TIGER has been to
prepare and engage their nursing workforce to use informatics and technologies. This is to improve
delivery of patient care (Sensmeier, Anderson & Shaw, 2017). After a decade, presently activities,
organization and hours have advanced though TIGER cause.
At this current initiative a total of three phases regarding basic initiative were recognized.
Here, the first phase was summit. A ten year old vision was defined and published. Next, a three year
action plan has been used. This was to develop different awareness regarding necessities for
informatics competencies for each of every individual nurse. Stakeholders were been encouraged in
implanting action plan of organization formalize cross-organizational action or activity steps under
the collaborative TIGER Teams ("New Leadership Collaborative Report Offers Recommendations
for the Innovative Nurse Leader", 2018). Moreover, measurable outcomes of every collaborative
team were defined and provided support and infrastructure for facilitating dissemination and
development of tasks of that collaborative. The activities were focused on various vital areas like

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policy, management and leadership, informatics design, collaboration and communication and
others.
The next phase was reporting. Here collaboration was facilitated for accelerating progress on
various action plans and leveraging the best practices. Additionally, various deliverables were
developed. On the other hand, previous phases recognized future actions that have been needed to be
completed. Thus this involved awareness campaign at national scale. This has been for the need of
urgent and broad reform of nursing education for its smart use of informatics and technology
(Hübner et al., 2016). It also included presentation and publication of best practices, tools and
resources, current evaluations, outreach efforts, survey results and success stories. Lastly, the
resources were supported at local and national meetings.
The last phase was HIMSS and foundation. Here dissemination were driven by professional
companies and adopted an effective interprofessional approach. Here once again, the leaders of
TIGERs searched available opportunities with a renewed emerging international and national focus.
The foundation helped to prepare interprofessional colleagues and nurses to make healthcare
equitable, timely, patent centered, efficient and effective.
Thus it is seen that scope for every healthcare leader and nurse is to do activities with their
people and capital resources available. This is for promoting sustainable developments to healthcare
environments touching families and patients. Hence the above study has analyzed insights on
making that a reality through TIGER initiative.

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References:
El, M. A. E. H. A. (2017). Innovation behavior levels and its relation with TIGER-based nursing
informatics competencies among critical care nurses. Egyptian Nursing Journal, 14(2), 59.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). (2009). The tiger initiative:
Collaborating to integrate evidence and informatics into nursing practice and education: An
executive summary. Retrieved from:
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executive-summary.pdf
Hübner, U., Ball, M., de Fátima Marin, H., Chang, P., Wilson, M., & Anderson, C. (2016). Towards
Implementing a Global Competency-Based Nursing and Clinical Informatics Curriculum:
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Hunter, K., McGonigle, D., Hebda, T., Sipes, C., Hill, T., & Lamblin, J. (2015). TIGER-Based
Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies (TANIC). In New Contributions in
Information Systems and Technologies (pp. 171-177). Springer, Cham.
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