Nursing research focused on the use of informatics for patient safety needs
to move from formative or process evaluations to outcome evaluations
• Nursing informatics researchers should explicitly assess their research for
potential contributions to error prevention and promotion of patient
safety
• Nurse researchers should increase their participation and leadership in
interdisciplinary patient safety-oriented informatics research
• The phenomenon of near misses should be explicitly explored from the
perspective of nurses' work and informatics support for prevention of near
misses
• Doctoral programs in nursing informatics should evaluate their curricula
from the perspective of patient safety and make revisions as necessary