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To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/1999/To-Err-is-Human-Building-A-Safer-Health-System.aspx This report lays out a comprehensive strategy by which government, health care providers, industry, and consumers can reduce preventable medical errors. Concluding that the know-how already exists to prevent many of these mistakes, the report sets as a minimum goal a 50 percent reduction in errors over the next five years. -
American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice
Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice (2001) defines NI as "a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. -
Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2003/Health-Professions-Education-A-Bridge-to-Quality.aspx The report says that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are not being adequately prepared to provide the highest quality and safest medical care possible, and there is insufficient assessment of their ongoing proficiency.
Educators and accreditation, licensing and certification organizations should ensure that students and working professionals develop and maintain proficiency in -
QSEN Competencies
http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#informatics Defined quality and safety competencies for nursing and proposed targets for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be developed in nursing pre-licensure programs for each competency: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. -
Tiger Informatics Competencies Collaborative
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The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice
