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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.

Alleviate pressures from repetitive tasks such as reading through patient notes, collating historic patient information & making a decision

AI can help create a patient centric view that contextualises the patient journey through the system and his/her disease progression to present that back to a nurse with a data-driven recommendation on the best course of action for the patient - real-time AI CDS truly pushing insights in the hands of nurses and midwives to make informed decisions. AI won't replace clinical staff but can help augment decision making and make patient care more informed, proactive and move us to from a reactive to a more preventative model of healthcare provision.

Nurses need robust training, education and guidance around the use of AI software and technologies because of the potential clinical risk.

Training and education important for AI technologies

AI in workflows can lead to more effective clinical decisions, cut down on admin tasks and release time to care.

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

Leader

Recognised Nurse Lead Multi disciplinary team to include IT staff to share knowledge across and upskill each other Education needs to be a blend of IT/Tech and Business Change and Programme Management

The alignment of minimum requirement's for informatics nurses and midwives, with a defined development structure, to nurture new talent

Structured development for staff

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

An open and approachable team who vary in knowledge and skill sets to be able to learn and teach each other and those they influence.

A good team needs to have common goal. The education offered and the roles both clinical and Non-Clinical should strive towards this goal.

Using AI algorithms

Using AI algorithms to analyse data sets to understand gaps within health and social care policy. This would require thorough GDPR practice and tight regulation of the data being used. Data would need to be acquired through a collaborative partnership, most likely involving health and social care providers, the NHS, academics, residents/family associations, DHSC and the CQC. We have seen in social care how AI can be used to help provide voices who are impaired from speaking (severe learning disabilities). By further understanding the use of AI in social care, we can look to identify gaps within policy, and further improve the lives of those most vulnerable.

Data Sourcing and Patient Care

Data is often sourced from a national dashboard like tableau and analysts use the data from this secondary source; as usually large amounts of NHS data sits in National Commissioning Data Repository (NCDR) and from here, a tableau dashboard is created. I'd like to see data capture used innovatively for nursing and midwifery practice, so analysts can extract data and analytics insights directly from source, rather than taken from another layer. This will avoid misinterpretation and ambiguity building up the skills of analysts, who can then help nurses and midwives use understanding and insights of data for the ultimate care of patients and service users.

More mobile technology in clinical practice

More employer provided mobile devices for nurses and midwives to use in hospitals so they don't have to queue up to use the ONE computer in ward areas and can record patient data on the go, speeding up their work and patient care

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

What proves our worth ?

Nurses must understand how the use of data will support improving practice. From quality dashboards to audits, understanding data cleansing

Nurses must understand how the use of data will support improving practice. From quality dashboards to audits, understanding data cleansing and recognising the so what part of capturing data. Feedback of data needs to be part of regular team meetings so that nurses can identify their own gaps in patient care and how they can work as a team to improve this. Data is everybodies business, we need to make is easy for everybody to access in relevant quality dashboards

Currently the digital workload is defeating the concept of person-centred care. Time is needed with patients... ipads to use at bedsides?

Digital tech is not fit for purpose currently in many hospitals

Nurses must be digitally competent to support pts' use of new technologies to support their health or there will be healthcare inequalities.

Digital Competence = Health Equality

Unclear the value of added data ? At times it is to fulfil some other gap in data collection.

In HV services multiple data collection items requested by commissioners, but purpose and use unclear

The nurse who is currently practicing his profession has an enormous challenge in taking advantage of the new technological resources .

The nurse who is currently practicing his profession has an enormous challenge in taking advantage of the new technological resources that are presented to him, so that he can carry out his work in a more efficient, effective way and in the shortest possible time. It is therefore necessary that nurses who are still reluctant to use ICTs reconsider their way of thinking, adopting an innovative attitude in the exercise of their profession. They must understand that technology is a neutral element, it is neither bad nor good, you just have to learn to use it, but it helps the exercise of the profession in every way.

Time spent inputting clinical data into patient records feels to be increasing, reducing face to face contact.

Ensure all training has an element of 'now how do you document' after dealing with any emergency

Ensure that digital competencies reflect both health and social care

There must be a greater drive to showcase the differences between data/technology usage within health and social care and how the latter is its own specialism. Ensuring placements are mandatory for all student nurses within each type of social care service (older/LD care home, older/LD homecare, supported living, mental health), will help show the importance of nursing within social care, but also expose students to the various types of data and tech processes used.

UK AHP Digital Competency Framework

Not my work but it is an excellent resource that would be easily adaptable for nurses and midwives

Inclusion of digital in post-reg education and training

Inclusion of digital in post-reg education and training

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

On going digital learning

Contingency for the digitally disengaged service users, there must be strategies in place to accommodate this issue

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.

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

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

Creating an adjacent 111 triage service that works on remote care for patients

As it stands NHS111 nurses are limited during weekday hours to escalate to doctors as they have to rely on GP's during this time frame. Creating ANP's and Doctors that conduct telemedicine can reduce GP wait time and still provide the best care for the patient