A facility is planning to implement an update to the electronic health record. This update is designed to facilitate documentati
on of critical changes in clients' condition to save time that nurses spend when documenting these changes. An informatics nurse specialist asks a group of staff nurses to test this update to determine if it is working as it was designed. The nurses are involved in which type of testing?
The Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment (NICA) L3/L4 tool was used in an evidence-based project . The Kruskal Wallis test was implemented to compare the pre-test and post-test responses on three selected subcategories to determine if there were any statistically significant changes between the pre-test and post-test results and competencies.
The results indicated positive outcomes and improvements in competencies following the implementation and evaluation of the evidence-based professional development program. In today’s healthcare system, informatics has become an essential part of the infrastructure to improve access to health information, make patient care safer, decrease health care costs, and improve outcomes.
