Nurse Informaticist Role in Systems Development and Implementation

This report outlines the role of a nurse leader within the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the implementation of a new nursing documentation system. The author, assuming the role of a nurse manager, emphasizes the importance of a nurse leader's involvement to ensure system usability and acceptance. The report details the nurse leader's responsibilities across the SDLC stages: planning and requirements definition (understanding nurses' daily challenges and communicating these to the team), analysis (scrutinizing organizational scope and analyzing nursing issues), design (contributing to the design of electronic systems), implementation (conducting staff training), and post-implementation support (conducting audits and assessing the system's impact on nurses' work lives). The report underscores the benefits of a nurse leader's involvement, including improved patient care and increased accessibility to patient information, while also addressing the challenges of knowledge gaps and skill requirements. The author references several academic articles to support the ideas.

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Systems development life cycle (SDLC) is an integrated operation of systems
engineering that encompasses and software engineering and information systems mediated
processes that refers to the whole process of life cycle of the application development (Cao &
Ball, 2017). The Systems development life cycle which is also known SDLC undergoes
processes such as creating, planning, deploying an information system pertinently and testing
the phases as well and there are various stages pertaining to the hardware and software
development that causes information system development, a very pertinent process (Tsui,
Davis & Sahlin, 2018). As far as the theory and process goes (Church, Schmidt & Smedley,
2017), there are six stages that are concerned with the Systems development life cycle and
these are design, requirement analysis, implementation, development and testing, and
evaluation and documentation. All these stages are very imperative to the development of a
proper health information technology and in order to integrate the same into the daily day to
day operations, skills and training are required (Mohammed et al. 2017). The benefits and
challenges associated with involving a nurse leader on an implementation team for health
information technology are many (Glumich et al. 2018). One of the most important benefits
is that these not only refers to the increase in the accessibility of the health activity in terms of
patient centered care delivery but it also elevates the level of care both through an informed
health care service plus high accessibility to the patient related information would increase
the quality of the care (Lemke, 2018). The various gaps presented are the gap in knowledge
and the lack of the required skills needed pertinently to support the usage and application of
the Systems development life cycle stages to full effect, in order to attribute to the
development of a proper, cohesive health information technology system that benefits both
the patients and the health care staffs such as nurses and others all.
In the first stage that is planning and requirements definition, my role as a nursing
leader is to first understand the major issues that a nurse from the team faces on a daily basis

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such as medication administration errors, hand hygiene issues and lack of compliance with
the parameters pertaining to the use of personal protective equipment and prevention of
hospital acquired infections in the patient. Then it is important that I communicate these
issues to the other members of the Systems development life cycle implementation team. It is
important that the system development is planned and strategized in such a way that the
above mentioned compliance requirement pertaining to the nursing issues are addressed
through an electronic audit and guidance system. More information regarding the issues can
be gathered through feedbacks client interviews, questionnaires, documentation and
observation.
In the analysis phase, as a nursing leader, it is important to understand that the
analysis regarding the scope, mission and objective of the organization and the nursing team
as a whole is scrutinized. Similarly, understanding the underpinnings of the nursing issues
and issues with collaboration with the other members of the multidisciplinary team – the
alternate pathways if the major plan that is already incorporated in the Systems development
life cycle, has to be analyzed as well. Similarly, in this phase, I will also opinionate my view
on the cost effective analysis and contribute in making the cycle a profitable one for the
organization and the employees.
The design of the new system, is important and as the nursing leader, I would help the
other members of the team with designing of the processes of new system design so that it
pertains to the electronic medical records, electronic audit system, electronic guidance and
electronic reminders are important that these are incorporated in the Systems development
life cycle.
In the implementation phase, as a nursing leader, I would provide and conduct the staff
training session in a pertinent manner, in order to deliver and develop the skills in the nurses

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from the nursing team, so that they are able to comply well with the evidence based practice
guidelines concerning with the application and usage of health information technology.
In the post-implementation support phase of systems development life cycle, as a nursing
leader, I would conduct audits in order to understand the compliance rates of the nurses with
the new health information technology system that encompasses the electronic medical
records, electronic audit system, electronic guidance and electronic reminders. My job as
nursing leader, in this phase, would be to understand and gain an insight through the audit
and feedback that how the health information technology is affecting the daily day to day
work lives of the nurses. My focus would be to gain an understanding that how the behaviors,
perception, compliance rates of the nurses with the evidence based standards has been
elevated and altered in response to the system development of health information technology.

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