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Technology savvy nurses will develop careers to help the nursing workforce learn & incorporate AI into their practice & care of patients.

Great career opportunities for those interested in this emerging field.

Nurses and midwives need to move away from a screen to caring for their patients again. IT work is taking up more time than patient care

More time caring, less time typing

Multi Site Consensual Validation of Workflows to capitalize on the most effective practice from the bottom up

AI analysis of large scale datasets from existing EPRs correlating specific intervention with the most positive outcmoes

Mental Health: Predictive Algorithms could help Primary Contact MH workers screen for those who might be at risk of needing inpatient care

Predictive Algorithm

In Mental Health Nursing- it could support diagnosis and treatment

it could help mental health nurses with decision making. AI would be able to detect the similarities of that assessment to specific behaviours/ diagnosis. In some settings like Crisis it could support timely decision making.

Many jobs for nurses doing virtual health need to be a prescriber. If the companies don’t offer in-house training they will use up nhs staff

A good specialist team is made up of a variety of professionals (nurses / doctors / allied HC professionals) who all have a care input.

Professions should be respectful of each other and provide specialist evidence-based knowledge and skills according to their individual discipline. For nursing: Specialist nurses should be knowledgeable and trained appropriately for their role. Nurse leaders should be 'succession planning', and ensuring they invest in our future specialist nurses (funding for example MSc Advanced Nursing Practice). There should be a register of such advanced nurse practitioners kept by each employer. Ideally, specialist nurses should be linked in nationally and locally to ensure access to peer support and information about best practice.

Remote triage/assessment is a specialist skill and should be recognised as such. Not all clinicians can safely remotely assess over the 📞

Staff working with IT need to have skills in working with the IT kit provided, so it is used to it's full potential.

A 'team' of professionals and non professionals supporting each other to fulfil the needs of the service/specialism - see further notes

Senior position e.g. B7/8 nurse/midwife, supported by B5/6, obstetrician/specialist doctor, with enough staff to cover leave/sickness etc. Admin support and close links with other specialities for MDT working, and other teams such as IT/Informatics CNO/board level/directors, robust and supportive regional LMNS/ICB(S) and national relationships. For digital maternity - leadership, informatics and business analyst training, QI, Clinical Safety, relevant clinical experience/mandatory updates, communication, RCA. Support and buy in required from wider leadership team and clinical staff - change army, winning over hearts and minds

Reporting tends to rely on amount of data captured not the quality. would be good to have targets to improve quality not just the quantity

Quality not quantity

Digital nurses, CNIO, CNOs have to receive better training in data utilisation

So many organisations work with metrics shows some senior nurses have a poor understanding of data utilisation. Nurses in leading roles need to gain this somewhere in the leadership programmes run in the UK. 'Making data count' work started to explore and expose the extent this was needed.

Improvement not assurance

Common observation is that nursing data is used for assurance, is often clunky and manual and reliant on the person collecting the data/doing the audit being consistent in their approach. We need the ability to look at data, use tools to inform opportunity for improvement and benchmark across organisations and systems

Make the data relevant to those adding it

Relating how and why the data is used and the reciprocated impact on practice, resources and finance might help to drive a sense of improved entry by practitioners; show people why what they are doing is important and how it will impact citizens

Ask the clinicians what information needs to be gathered to show quality! Stop putting quantity over quality.

What proves our worth ?

Multiple benefits currently conflict with areas for improvement

If used effectively, it can improve communication and streamline processes, whilst simultaneously identifying and monitoring areas for improvement. Constantly evolving digital landscape means that currently users are frustrated with inefficient systems and the burden this can place on care offered - interrupting person centred and place based care. Technology can widen access to services, removing physical boundaries to care and reducing inequalities, but only if used correctly and efficiently - still a work in progress in many areas and often a source of frustration, especially for those used to practice pre digital era. Once refined, digital processes have the potential to improve person centred care, freeing up time to have more contact 'with woman/person' and reducing the burden of documentation and communication

Digital Literacy

Proactive/self Healthcare

Signposting and social prescribing to support patients and families becoming better able to have autonomy in their health and well being. Part of TTO and safety netting at point of discharge.

Currently too much dependency on GP to prescribe for the service and cover leave gaps in rotas

Succinct data capture when F2F

Making systems more "pick up and play" while capturing essential data would enable us to be more interactive with the woman while documenting her care

We need digital competencies that are embedded within training and continual role appropriate digital competency training and frameworks

On going digital learning

Time to learn and practice

Teams are often provided minimal support. They may not move on from basics, so will complete the minimum requirements often learning bad habits or taking shortcuts. Teams need time to practice in a safe space with someone showing them how to gain more out of the system-ongoing learning.

Mandatory training, establish 'digital carers' to support patients and staff to gain digital skills and access equality in healthcare.

Training and support with 'digital carers' for all!

Tapping into Healthcare Assistants extensive knowledge and experience

I feel that a seperate course should be created for Healthcare Assistant who have extensive knowledge in a particular speciality and they are upskilled to RN or NA post instead of waiting for students to qualify every three years. This will reduce the burden of RN's similar to the use of CNA in the USA

Digital literacy education and training made mandatory for career progession

Any nurses or midwives wishing to progress into managerial or advanced practice roles should have mandatory digital literacy knoweldge and skills. CPD courses or Masters in digital health or health informatics as a minimum

Allow the data to flow, use standards including terminologies get the basics right allow patients to participate in development and care

By patients recording their vital signs and symptoms remotely and a nurse monitoring the dashboard means patients are prioritised by need

Create a common language through standardising data standards to support information flow, improve clarity and access across systems.

Patient's don't change, why should their data

The new advances and innovations in ICT, has favored the implementation of the different modalities of teleconsultation in nursing

Teleconsultation is emerging as a new organizational system, a new way of organizing and managing the provision of health services for the benefit of patients, professionals and the health system in general, establishing a fast, fluid, effective and efficient communication channel that has repercussions directly on the patient, reducing time to resolve their health problem, avoiding unnecessary travel and reducing costs.

Portable devices have potential to increase patient involvement in their care as can be used at bedside. Needs good mobile UI development.

Portable devices and patient involvement