Seamless teaching and learning of informatics and health information technology competencies found in Domain 8 using a case study approach

Failure to address informatics and health information technology competencies impacts the Four Spheres of Care, Systems Based Practice, and Evidence Based Practice.  Nursing education is dense with concepts and skill-sets of many kinds and thus integrating these Domain 8 competencies will foster seamless learning and the clinical reasoning and leadership that must take place to be a competent beginning professional nurse upon graduation. Informatics and health information technology competencies found in Domain 8 can be threaded through all aspects of nursing education to foster competent nursing practice for the complexity of 21st century healthcare.