Thursday, July 10, 2008: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
SPECIAL SESSION: Paving the Way for the Future: The Emerging Role of the Informatics Nurse as an Organizational Leader
Learning Objective #1: identify nurse informaticist competencies.
Learning Objective #2: Describe 4 characteristics that most constiutents want from their leaders.
Health care is at the tipping point where automation is being driven by government initiatives along with consumer demand. New emphasis on safety and quality contribute to the urgency for health care systems to computerize their environment. Nurses are discovering an emerging role as leaders in this quest for automation. Registered nurses by the very nature of their education, clinical training, and skills are being recongize as the logical choice to lead clinical information system projects. This session will focus on why this trend is developing, why nurses make excellent leaders in these projects, how the nurse informaticist role has developed, what leadership characteristics nurses need to be successful and common myths and misconceptions about leadership. Regardless of their role in information systems, nurses of all backgrounds will benefit from understanding the importance of nurses in automating the clinical environment as well as generally why and how nurses make good organizational leaders.
Organizer:	Jim Cato, RN, CRNA, MHS, MSN, CPEHR