Health Care : Current Reviews

Mapping critical data skills for tomorrows nurses and paramedics: The informatics competency challenges and trends

27^th International Congress on Nursing Care & Nursing Education

November 21-22, 2018 Bangkok, Thailand

Joseph Tan

McMaster University, Canada

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Health Care Current Reviews

Abstract:

Nurses, first responders and paramedics, often regarded as a critical group of experts and community heroes, must now be armed with new skills and competencies to ensure the successful digital transformation of organizations and work processes throughout the world via e-technologies and secured network infrastructures. In past decades, major global destabilization, rapid aging populations as well as ongoing unpredictable events (Fukushima, climate change and new kind of warfare), have called upon the need for nurses, first responders (i.e.., community workers) and paramedics to practice timecritical and technology-savvy solutions globally. In an era of rapid digital transformation of organizations and the internet of things, many governments are looking to train a new breed of health practitioners and social workers. This study overviews prevailing informatics competency challenges and trends for next generation nurses, community workers and first responders, providing insights into new type of data skills and ongoing challenges arising from applications of emerging technologies. Such challenges include (1) applying data sciences to enhance problem solving in health engineering and operational management, (2) acquiring new knowledge/skills to translate lean thinking into workplace practices such as nursing, (3) incorporating smart interfaces to improve user engagements of healthcare services and the monitoring of key health indicators as well as (4) understanding the influence of social media for transforming nursing care and nursing practices.

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E-mail: tanjosep@mcmaster.ca