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Nursing Informatics Leadership

University of Minnesota

Nursing Informatics Leadership course equips nurses and healthcare professionals with essential leadership skills in informatics. Through a comprehensive curriculum, learners will gain insights into historical context, evaluate effective leadership styles, and develop interprofessional collaboration techniques. The course also delves into the training and education leadership skills necessary for informatics leaders, emphasizing the creation of course documents and syllabi. Students will explore models for interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, communication techniques, and future literacy in interprofessional informatics scenarios. The fifth module focuses on the creation of a portfolio, peer-reviewed to integrate and document learning through the specialization.

  • Understand the historical context and evolution of nursing informatics leadership
  • Evaluate effective leadership styles and core values supporting effective nursing informatics leadership
  • Develop training and education leadership skills for informatics in diverse settings
  • Explore models for interprofessional collaboration and teamwork

Upon completion, learners will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to lead and work interprofessionally, promoting effective interaction and envisioning futures literacy in interprofessional informatics scenarios.

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Course Modules

The Nursing Informatics Leadership course comprises five modules that cover essential leadership skills, historical context, effective leadership styles, training and education, and interprofessional collaboration techniques.

Skills for Nursing Informatics Leaders

In the first module, learners will be introduced to nursing informatics leadership essentials and skills that form the foundation for the specialization. This module emphasizes self-reflection, goal-setting, and participation in nursing informatics organizations or networks to increase collaboration and leadership opportunities.

Nursing Informatics Leaders

The second module explores the history of technology and its relationship to the beginning of nursing informatics. Learners will delve into the AMIA Nursing Informatics History Project, gaining insights into the pioneering leaders in nursing informatics and the leadership lessons learned from them.

Nursing Informatics Leadership Theory and Practice

The third module focuses on understanding effective leadership styles for nursing informatics in clinical or academic contexts, discovering core values that support effective leadership, and determining personal informatics leadership style based on the Minnesota Informatics Leadership Inventory.

Nursing Informatics Training and Education

Module four delves into the training and education leadership skills necessary for nursing informatics leaders. Learners will gain an understanding of relevant course development in clinical and academic settings, develop a prototype course syllabus, and explore the benefits of formal and informal mentoring for nursing informaticians.

Leadership in Interprofessional Informatics

The fifth module emphasizes leadership in interprofessional informatics, examining models for interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, communication techniques, and envisioning futures literacy in interprofessional informatics scenarios. It also includes the creation of a portfolio, peer-reviewed to integrate and document learning through the specialization.

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