Project 6: Education

Thomas Clancy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN , Barb Caspers, Marissa Wilson, DNSc MHSc
CPHIMS RN-BC, Judy Warren, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, FACMI, Dorcas Kunkel, DNP, RN, APHN-BC, Connie Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN,
FACMI, Valerie Fong, MSN, RN, Jehad Adwan, PhD, RN

Purpose: Education

Accomplishments

Recommendations

Develop a crosswalk between the AACN Essentials for

Information Management and the Application of Patient
Care Technology, QSEN KSAs for Nursing Informatics
and the TIGER competencies for clinical nurses and
nursing students.
Investigate developing a course curriculum that
incorporates the AACN Essentials, QSEN KSAs and
TIGER competencies for informatics.
Develop the resources and conduct workshops
Add actual content in nursing curriculum related to HL7 &
standards. Link nursing process with the data,
measurements and standards so research and quality
improvement can reliably occur.

Events/Workshops

Provide a preconference workshop at the AACN

Baccalaureate Education Summit in November 2015.
Continue providing workshops in 2016 aimed at
providing faculty resources needed to teach nursing
informatics at the prelicensure level.
Develop a crosswalk between the AACN Essentials
for Information Management and Patient Care
Technologies and the QSEN competencies for
graduate level students.
Investigate developing a course curriculum that
incorporates the AACN Essentials, QSEN KSAs and
TIGER competencies for informatics at the graduate
level.
Develop the resources and conduct workshops for
faculty teaching graduate level nursing informatics.

Background
In 2012 the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in
partnerships with AACN, The University of Minnesota
and The University of Maryland Schools of Nursing
conducted the Nursing Informatics Deep Dive
Workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to:

Oct. 2012
Nov. 2014
Jan. 2015
April 2015
April 2015

May 2015
June 2015
Oct. 2015
Nov. 2015

Nursing Informatics Deep Dive Workshop, San

Francisco, CA
AACN 2014 Baccalaureate Education Conference,
Washington DC
AACN webinar series on nursing informatics (Jan.,
Feb., March, & April 2015)
Workshop on nursing informatics, University of
Mississippi Medical Ctr.
Panel presentation on nursing informatics
Medical World of the Americas Conference, Houston,
TX
QSEN 2015 National Forum, San Diego, CA
Nursing Knowledge: 2015 Big Data Science
Conference, Minneapolis, MN
American Academy of Nursing Annual Conference,
Washington DC
AACN 2015 Baccalaureate Education Conference,
Washington DC

Educate faculty from pre-licensure schools of nursing

and health system educators in the fundamental quality
improvement and safety concepts necessary to achieve
the QSEN competencies for informatics;
Provide the faculty and health system educators with a
resource base of tools for use in the integration of the
content necessary to achieve the QSEN competencies
for informatics;
Support and empower trained faculty and health
system educators as they champion the quality and
safety content in their nursing program, train other
faculty in their programs on the use and integration of
the content and tools, and oversee curriculum revision
at their home institutions for nursing informatics.

Resources
University of Minnesota National Nursing Informatics Deep Dive
Resource Website:
http://www.nursing.umn.edu/continuing-professionaldevelopment/nnideepdive/

On-line Courses:
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics Moore Foundation
AMIA 10 x 10 Interprofessional Health Informatics - Westra
Telehealth Nurse Presenter -Westra
Patient Engagement in Health Information Westra, deBronkart
MOOCs
Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics - Monsen

Background
An extension of the original Moore Foundation grant
was awarded to the University of Minnesota School
of Nursing (UM SoN) in 2014. The grant was to
further expand the original goals and objectives of the
Deep Dive Workshop on a national basis. In 2014
and 2015 The UM SoN conducted a series of events
and workshops as well as developed a number of
nursing informatics resources (see
accomplishments). Many of these were done in
partnership with AACN. The SoN also created an online course aimed at prelicensure students that can
be used by faculty teaching nursing informatics.
Subsection
The Moore Foundation grant is focused on providing
resources to faculty teaching prelicensure students
nursing informatics. The long term goal is to also
address AACN Essentials and QSEN competencies
for nursing informatics at the graduate level and
create resources for faculty in these areas.

Acknowledgements
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and The American Association of Colleges of Nursing