Professional informatics standards alignment

Ensuring that informatics standards align with NMC professional standards is vital in developing nursing and midwifery informaticians and a digitally capable workforce for now and into the future.

Stimulated by results of annual surveys of its membership, the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) is undertaking a piece of discovery work to identify the actions that the organisation would need to undertake in order to embed its professional informatics standards into existing professional regulatory frameworks. The FCI published a Core Competency Framework (CCF) for Clinical Informaticians in July 2020. The CCF describes the knowledge and skills-based competencies for all Clinical Informaticians across health and social care. As a profession it is vital that nurses and midwives guide this work to ensure the alignment with NMC standards.

Taking this into the nursing & midwifery profession should be in a position to:

• Make an analysis of the requirements of Nursing and Midwifery frameworks, as they relate to operationalising professional informatics standards.
• Compare these requirements with relevant planned outputs from the Competency Framework Working Group (CFWG) within FCI and developing work within the professions
• Identify actions that the profession will need to undertake in order to effectively engage and embed professional standards into existing nursing and midwifery regulatory frameworks
• Encourage nurses and midwives to join FCI and contribute to its ongoing professional agenda