TIGER Initiative: Usefulness and Impacts on Nursing and Healthcare

The TIGER Initiative
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The TIGER Initiative
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative was developed in the United States in 2006 to incorporate informatics skills in nursing education and learning curriculum. Since its formation, the TIGER initiative has transformed into a larger healthcare model in nursing. For example, in 2009, TIGER established informatics competency policies that outlined enormous information technology skills needed for professional practices (O’Connor et al., 2017). The TIGER initiative has played a significant role in healthcare in various dimensions. It enables clinicians and nurses to exploit information machines, their ethics, and underlying nursing philosophies to improve patient care in medical institutions. The TIGER initiative empowers trainees and educators as change agents to prepare inter-disciplinary and inter-professional healthcare personnel for the digital era. In this context, it offers academic support to clinical lecturers and students with educational resources to train healthcare informatics and promote community development (Hübner et al., 2018). Furthermore, the TIGER initiative has provided support to other sta...