• 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
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Doctoral programs with an emphasis on patient safety should evaluate
their curricula from the perspective of informatics and make revisions as
necessary
Nurse leaders should work in relevant policy arenas to ensure that the
policies that are developed in regard to health information technologies
are inclusive of nurses and advanced practice nurses (e.g., incentives for
EHR adoption must not be limited to physicians)
Increased mechanisms for funding research at the intersection of patient
safety, nursing, and informatics should be developed