tigercompetencies wiki / Recommendations

TIGER Vision

Allow informatics tools, principles, theories and practices to be used by nurses to make healthcare safer, effective, efficient, patient-centered, timely and equitable

Interweave enabling technologies transparently into nursing practice and education, making information technology the stethoscope for the 21st century

TIGER Website

http://www.tigersummit.com/

TIGER Collaboratives

Fully Engage in HIT Standards and Interoperability Development

Fully Engage in the National Healthcare IT Agenda

Create Comprehensive Informatics Competencies for All Areas of Nursing

Reform Educational Curriculum, Faculty and Program Development

Create Innovative and Effective Staff Development/Continuing Education Programs

Improve Clinical Applications Used by Nurses

A Virtual Demonstration Center to Showcase Healthcare Information Systems and Technology for Nurses

Engage and Support Nursing Leadership

Engage and Support Healthcare Consumers

Draft Recommendations of the TIGER Informatics Competencies Team

Framework

The TIGER Informatics Competencies Team have organized and harmonized the informatics competencies into four primary categories:

1. Basic Computer Competencies

2. Information Literacy Competencies

3. Information Management and Informatics Competencies

4. Attitudes and Awareness Competencies

The "Attitudes and Awareness" category of competencies is related to/integrated within the other three categoreis, and the team has created two graphical representations of this framework for further discussion and feedback from the other participating TIGER teams--Education, Staff Development and Leadership Development.