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Digital roles

Digital roles

Introduction

The effective use of information and digital technologies is a key enabler in delivering health and social care now and in the future.

Unlike other sectors, health and social care has been relatively slow to realise the benefits of technology enhanced care. But this is changing. The pace of change is accelerating and citizen expectations are growing.

Modern nursing and midwifery requires digital capabilities. This is being reflected in new and emerging roles across health and social care.

We have interviewed nurses and midwives who are in these roles. We asked them how they moved into the role, what their key responsibilities are, and whether they needed additional qualifications.

We hope they will inspire you to explore the career options that are developing and inform you of the career options available.

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Support

In clinical practice:

  • Consider technical devices and digital solutions to solve clinical practice problems.
  • Understand the role of algorithms to support clinical decision making.

 

In education:

  • Teach GDPR, security and social media.
  • Use elearning for personal development.
  • Be a digital champion.
  • Develop simple aids to help others.

 

In management and leadership:

  • Help clinical staff who have little digital/informatics awareness build confidence.

 

In research:

  • Use technology to collect and inform audit data collection.
Adjoa Nsiah-Jennings is a registered nurse working at Saint Francis Hospice as a Digital Educator. Developing technology-enhanced Palliative and End of Life Care education. Supporting staff and volunteers to increase their digital literacy to be better equipped to communicate and collaborate with the people they support. Whilst working to ensure that the virtual teaching remains engaging and accessible for all in this specialist field.

A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Technology Enabled). Adjoa comes to the world of digital with a varied portfolio of nurse leadership experience. Prior to joining the Hospice, Adjoa worked for NELFT NHS Foundation Trust as programme lead for Preceptorship, Apprentice Nursing Associates and Rotational Nursing. In 2020, she and her team at NELFT in partnership with Barts Health NHS Trust; became ÂÌñ»»ÆÞi Nurse Awards Finalists in the Child Health Award category. For their innovative Children and Young people’s physical and mental health rotational nursing programme.

Adjoa is an Action Learning Set Facilitator and recently completed the Shuri Network Digital Nursing Fellowship programme. The Shuri Network was launched in July 2019 to support women from ethnic minority backgrounds in the NHS and care with an interest in digital health.

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Specialist

In clinical practice:

  • Scale alterations to improve patient care.
  • Present the positive changes digital systems can make to clinical care.

 

In education:

  • Lecture in HE institutions and within organisations.
  • Work with varied teams making connections and building interoperability options for systems.

 

In management and leadership:

  • Use service improvement methodology to define and report stages of change in  practice and ensure sustainability.
  • Take part in regional governance and systems development.

 

In research:

  • Inform service improvements based on data and move into active research.
  • Influence the inclusion of informatics in future research areas.

Jayshree Jadav is a Senior Project Nurse within the Digital & Informatics Implementation team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Commencing her career at Airedale General Hospital and Nuffield Health Hospital Leeds, Jayshree’s experience developed in the challenging environment of the Emergency Department at Kings College Hospital, London.

Before long, Jayshree was headhunted by esteemed healthcare IT organisation Cerner where she began her digital healthcare journey. Jayshree’s passion is now focussed on developing the in-house EHR system within the Leeds NHS Hospitals.

As a Senior EHRS Clinical System Designer, Elizabeth has worked closely with clinical staff to analyse their processes, current and future workflows. As part of the clinical documentation team, she has analysed, designed, developed, configured, tested and developed reporting capabilities within the application.

She has also participated in the wider clinical governance and change management organisation for the EHRS programme. She has acted as a Change Management Agent to engage staff in reviewing working practices and communicating changes to practices and policies. Previous roles include Clinical Analyst at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and EPIC Consultant at Mount Sinai Health System in New York.

Catriona Jamieson is a Community Learning Disabilities nurse working for PAMIS (Promoting A More Inclusive Society), the only organisation that works exclusively with people who have profound and multiple learning disabilities and complex health needs. She has lead and develop various aspects of PAMIS' work including PAMIS Digital Passports, our specialist PMLD First Aid course, the specialist epilepsy service, health related services for people with PMLD, and digital services for people with PMLD. She is passionate about using a digital and multimedia approach to assist in developing a broad range of supportive and inclusive services and tools from oral and living history projects to communicating practical health and care information.

If you wish to get in contact with her, you can do so at c.z.jamieson@dundee.ac.uk.

Influencer

In clinical practice:

  • Scale alterations to improve patient care.
  • Present the positive changes digital systems can make to clinical care.

 

In education:

  • Lecture in HE institutions and within organisations.
  • Work with varied teams making connections and building interoperability options for systems.

 

In management and leadership:

  • Use service improvement methodology to define and report stages of change in  practice and ensure sustainability.
  • Take part in regional governance and systems development.

 

In research:

  • Inform service improvements based on data and move into active research.
  • Influence the inclusion of informatics in future research areas.

Roxanne is a postdoctoral ophthalmic nurse researcher and head of research nursing at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility, Moorfields Eye Hospital. She is passionate about improving ophthalmic patient related outcomes through the modelling of real-world clinical data to deliver personalised medicine. She sits on the board of the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ Ophthalmic Nursing Forum and is a Trustee of the International Glaucoma Association.

She is also a Florence Nightingale scholar, a NIHR 70@70 senior research leader and a Topol/Health Education England Digital Health Fellow. Roxanne has several peer-reviewed publications and oral/poster presentations at national and international conferences.

Strategic

In clinical practice:

  • Consultant roles working with executive teams.
  • Explore the art of the possible.
  • Look towards the future with the enablement of clinical technology in practice.

 

In education:

  • Take the professor/chair role, which may be a portfolio.
  • Confidently teach and coach staff to develop digital technologies.
  • Lead on major improvement within digital health informatics.
  • Support the development of relevant HE programmes/faculty.

 

In management and leadership:

  • Work with the organisation’s information and communications specialists to design clinical technology strategy and planning for the organisation.
  • Work in population health level role, regionally or nationally, in directing/influencing/commissioning services and systems.

 

In research:

  • Write and gain bids that inform professional practice and improve patient outcomes based on the patients seen and the data collected.
  • Direct research programmes or strategically influence the future research.
  • Provide expert input into other research portfolios.