Question #1
You have read the TIGER Nursing Informatics Competencies Model information. What four
competencies do you find most relevant in your future practice?
Question #2
You also realize there will be additional competencies needed in the future and ask your
manager if she can provide a list of skills, you will need when the new electronic medical record
(EMR) is implemented at your hospital. What two new skills you will need to learn?
As you continue in your class in basic informatics, your next assignment is to start examining
online sources for health care information and services you might need to use throughout your
courses. You are asked to identify several examples you might use. Next, you are asked to
present the history of health informatics. You need to develop a timeline identifying the key
impacts on the health care industry and evolution of informatics.
Question #3
You start to explore your topic and realize there are revolutionizing events that have caused the
major drive for implementing EHRs and the development of informatics. You decide to present
the information, starting back over 10 years ago, as you find the key initiating report from the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) To Err is Human seems to be the trigger for change. What year did
this report first come out? What are some of the major achievements to date in related to the
evolution of informatics?
Question #4
Consider what is the best way to present information to a group of people in a short amount of
time? Develop a timeline that extracts the major events in the implementation of EHR.
You may select either of the options below to attach in the discussion forum.
• PowerPoint presentation or a timeline format in Word document