To successfully manage, analyze, and implement the amount of data in healthcare organizations and practice, nurses need to possess certain informatics competencies. These competencies outline the necessary qualities one must possess to be successful as a doctorally prepared nurse.

By analyzing and evaluating these competencies, you will assess what qualities you might already possess, as well as identify those qualities you might need to strengthen. These competencies also provide a framework for the leadership skills needed to support, implement, and lead initiatives in your healthcare organization or nursing practice.

This week, you will focus on analyzing competencies for leadership in nursing practice. You will also consider the competencies you might recommend to enhance your leadership strategies and evaluate your leadership skills. You will also present your project findings, or hypothesize possible findings, for your small nursing informatics project.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Analyze competencies for leadership in nursing practice
• Recommend leadership strategies to support new information technology initiatives
• Justify approaches for competency and proficiency in leadership skills
• Present findings and lessons learned from implementation of a nursing informatics project

Learning Resources

Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)

Competencies (click to expand/reduce)

Optional Resources (click to expand/reduce)

Discussion: Final Project Presentation

• You have been working on your small nursing informatics project throughout the duration of the term, and now it is your opportunity to share with your colleagues.
  As you share the details of your small nursing informatics project, reflect and consider your challenges, successes, goals, and outcomes related to how you managed and implemented your small nursing informatics project. What lessons have you learned along the way? What information might be most relevant to your colleagues and why?

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To Prepare

• Create a 10- to 15-slide, narrated presentation of your final small nursing informatics project.
• Be sure to present the details of your small nursing informatics project, including any lessons learned from the implementation or proposed implementation of your project in your healthcare organization or nursing practice.

By Day 2 of Week 10

Post a 10- to 15-slide, narrated presentation of your final small nursing informatics project. Your audience is your stakeholders, and you should present the details of your project and findings from the implementation of your project.

By Day 5 of Week 10

View a selection of your colleagues’ presentations and respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by providing feedback and critique on the small nursing informatics project presented.

Submission and Grading Information

Grading Criteria

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Post by Day 2 of Week 10 and Respond by Day 5 of Week 10

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Assignment: Competencies

• How do you determine what skills or qualities will benefit you as a leader in your healthcare organization or nursing practice?
  This question might be answered through the analysis of nursing informatics competencies. The analysis of these competencies provides a context for the qualities needed to effectively lead and implement projects in your healthcare organization or nursing practice. 
  For this Assignment, complete the nursing informatics competency assessment survey to determine what skills you may or may not have acquired. Utilizing the assessment survey, you will explore the importance of these competencies in nursing practice, as well as in the implementation of nursing informatics projects in your practice.

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To Prepare

• Review the “Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice” learning resource to explore competencies related to nursing practice.
• Consider the role of competencies in nursing practice. Which competencies may be the most beneficial for project management and nursing informatics?
• Reflect on which skills you might currently possess and how you might become competent in others.
• Complete the “Advanced Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment L3/L4 (NICA) Survey” in this week’s Learning Resources to assist you in evaluating the competencies.

The Assignment: (4–5 pages, and completed Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Survey)

• Explain what competencies are most important and beneficial for your success as a leader in your practice. Be specific and provide examples.
• Appraise the leadership strategies, addressed in Standard 11, that you might employ to establish a culture that supports new information technology initiatives. Be specific.
• Analyze whether or not you currently have these skills. Then, explain approaches you might recommend implementing to become competent or more proficient in this skill.

Note: Be sure to include the completed Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Survey with your paper.

Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The Sample Paper provided at the Walden Writing Center provides an example of those required elements (available at https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general#s-lg-box-20293632). All papers submitted must use this formatting.

Submit your Assignment by Day 7 of Week 10.

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What’s Coming Up in Week 11?

In the next week, you will conclude the course by consolidating everything examined in this course. You will reflect on nursing informatics and the focused project throughout the term.

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