Essay On Nursing Informatics

Nursing Informatics and its Concepts

Nurses are viewed as knowledge workers regardless of their specialty. Nursing knowledge is generated by Nursing Informatics (NI), through the process of science and practice and using the theory of “data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.” The main goal of NI is to facilitate communication through innovated technology that will promote positive patient outcomes. NI, recognized by the American Nurses Association (ANA) in 1992, has increased the visibility and value of nursing practice. The implementation of the previously mentioned method promotes nursing beliefs, individualizes nursing care and implements nursing language (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to use the nursing informatics concepts to explore and understand ICU psychosis/delirium in order to provide evidence-practice that can limit its occurrences.

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Psychotic episodes are prominent in the patient population in the Neuro ICU where I work. This critical dysfunctional state is induced by a prolonged ICU stay or intubation period and lengthen neuropsychological deficits, all noted in the Neuro ICU environment. Studies have shown that the treatment of ICU related psychosis is provided to 80% of the patients, incurring a cost of 4 to 16 billion dollars in the United States. Regardless of all the research, adverse results and the high pervasiveness, the problem of developed ICU psychosis/delirium often goes unnoticed or considered a temporary state that will reverse once the patient leaves the ICU environment (AACN Practice Alerts, 2012). The question to assess the problem is, what is the adequate tool in detecting ICU psychosis/delirium that can be implemented to the Electroni...

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