Nursing Leadership and the IT Initiative (1 Hour)

Another CE course that I have taken to fulfill clinical hours for this course was titled "Nursing Leadership and the IT Initiative". This 1 hour course focused on the technology aspect of nursing and how nurse leaders can successfully implement technologies into their work places. It started the course out by talking about nursing informatics. "Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing
science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice." There are four parts to implementing a new technology directive in the workplace. The first stage is implementation, then utilization, followed by adoption and finally transformation. It is important for all nurse leaders to understand each stage of the implementation process in order to effectively implement the change. I liked this quote in the class, "Implementations are 20% about the technology and 80% about the sociocultural issues such as change management, leadership, risk tolerance, incentives, etc." I love this quote because it shows how important leadership is in implementation. It is not so much about the change, but how you present the change and manage the change in the workplace.