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Education and communication
Participation and involvement
Facilitation and support
Negotiation and agreement
Manipulation and co-optation
Explicit and implicit coercion
In the HIMSS (2009) nursing informatics impact survey, nursing informaticists
were identified as the most significant resource among a project team to impact
adoption and change management. The nurse brings the ability to interact with
various clinicians, knowledge of clinical practice, and the ability to empathize
with the clinicians as they experience the impact of workflow change. These in-
nate skills differentiate the nursing informaticist from other ...