Workgroups and leaders

Workgroups and Leaders

Workgroups are composed of volunteers focused on specific topics aligned with the NKBDS Initiative’s vision and mission.  They meet virtually throughout the year in order to achieve their action plans.  All are welcomed to join any workgroup.

Data Science and Clinical Analytics

Co-leaders:
Steven G. Johnson, PhD, FAMIA
Ann Wieben, PhD, MS, BSN, RN, NI-BC 

Purpose: To apply data science and clinical analytic methods, incorporating validated
information models derived from diverse sources of health care data, to address nurse-sensitive
clinical research questions that have the potential to inform and educate nursing and
multidisciplinary approaches for better patient care and outcomes.

Determinants of Health

Leader:
Kathy Bobay, PhD, RN, ACHIP, FAAN

Purpose: To support the standardized collection of determinants of health data into sharable,
comparable, and actionable nursing practice to improve the health of individuals, families,
communities, and populations.

Digital Health and Innovation

Co-leaders:
Kelly Resco-Summes, DNP, MAdm, RN
Kecia Hayslett, CHWI, HTC, RN

Purpose: Identify and support activities and resources to address unmet needs and create
opportunities in digital health and innovation.

Knowledge Modeling and Encoding

Co-leaders:
Tess Settergren, MHA, MA, RN, NI-BC
Stephanie Hartleben, MSN, MHA, RN, NI-BC
Kay Lytle, DNP, RN, NI-BC, NEA-BC, CPHIMS, ACHIP, FHIMSS, FAMIA

Purpose:
• Derive nursing knowledge models from EHR documentation and "best evidence",
• Map the core, essential concepts, and values to data standards for interoperability, documenting
heuristics,
• Submit requests for new LOINC® terms and SNOMED CT® concepts where gaps exist, and
• Disseminate the deliverables for replicability.

Learning Collaborative for Digital Health

Co-leaders:
Mary Jane Rivard DNP, RN, NI-BC
Nancy M Husson DNP, RN, CHSE

Purpose: The Learning Collaborative for Digital Health's purpose is to engage nurse educators
and practice partners with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) to educate nurses at all
levels of participation and to lead the digital evolution, improving healthcare and health globally.

Nursing Value

Co-leaders:
Greg Clancy, DNP, RN
Liz Swanson, PhD, RN

Purpose: To examine and measure the value of nursing within the context of care and supporting
the tenets of health equity. Therefore, the intent is to maximize the development and
dissemination of measurable and comparable nursing terms critical to the context of care and the
value of nursing.

Policy and Advocacy

Transforming Documentation

Co-leaders:
David Boyd, DNP, RN, CNS, NI-BC, CPHIMS
Bonnie Adrian, PhD, NI-BC

Purpose: Explore ways to decrease the documentation burden and serve up information in the electronic
health record at the right time in the workflow to support evidence-based and personalized care.
Elevate purpose-driven, role-based, patient-centric, evidence informed documentation
transformation to capture nurse observations and interventions and drive purposeful secondary-
use and precision nursing. Transformation supports enhanced data utilization to drive and
measure improvement in patient outcomes and illuminate nursing's value and contribution in
healthcare.