Why not just any nurse can be a nurse informatician.

Embracing the unique technology-driven clinical contributions to nursing practice that only nurse informaticians can provide demands that nurse leaders at all organizational levels lock arms to take three definitive steps towards advancing patient care and the practice of the nursing profession. • First, BLOCKINnurse BLOCKINleaders BLOCKINmust BLOCKINselect BLOCKINa BLOCKINproperly BLOCKINeducated BLOCKINand BLOCKINskilled individual for the critical role of nurse informatician (NI). • Once BLOCKINthe BLOCKINnurse BLOCKINhas BLOCKINbeen BLOCKINselected, BLOCKINthe BLOCKINnursing BLOCKINorganization BLOCKINwill BLOCKINneed to standardize its clinical practice around a universally accepted taxonomy and nomenclature if it is to leverage the data analysis and clinical intelligence that a nurse informatician can deliver to the organization. • Finally, BLOCKINnurse BLOCKINleaders BLOCKINwill BLOCKINneed BLOCKINto BLOCKINimmerse BLOCKINthemselves BLOCKINin BLOCKINacquiring the BLOCKINknowledge BLOCKINrequired BLOCKINto BLOCKINthoroughly BLOCKINevaluate BLOCKINand BLOCKINunderstand BLOCKINthe technical innovations brought to them by vendors of information technology.