Importance Of Nursing Informatics

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Nursing informatics is an emerging field that integrates both the medical field of patient care with computer science and technology. In today’s society, we relieve a lot on technology as it has improved and become more accessible over the years. Access to the internet is now at the tip of our fingers as we can use our mobile phones or even our cars to explore and surf the World Wide Web. With the quick access comes positives and negatives, as anyone can publish anything on the internet; which is why as health providers it is important to direct our patient’s into the right direction. For example: cdc.gov, the Centers for Disease Control and preventions, offers up-to-date resources of any medical condition and also …show more content…

Informatics allows researchers to take patient data and enter those into a database and computer system which analyses the data. Then the researcher is able to interpret the data and publish their findings in order to improve patient care. Informatics allow nurses to research numerous topics to implement into their everyday practice. A health care provider can go to a website, such as guidelines.gov, to find articles that has been researched and has a positive correlation between two variables that can benefit both the patients and nurses. Let’s say I wanted to improve “end of shifts reports”. Based on guidelines.gov researchers integrated multiple searches from different databases and weighted each one based on a rating scale that rated the outcome evidence levels. The ending result of the search revealed, “It is recommended that nurses perform bedside shift to shift report to increase patient/family satisfaction (National Guideline Clearinghouse, 2014).” From reading the article, the nurse could take the end results and implement bedside reports or the nurse could continue her search to find another article that supports her finding before sharing it with …show more content…

Sand-Jeklin and Sherman (2014) studied seven medical-surgical units by having a control group who did their regular routine and an experiment group that implemented bedside reports. As the experiment concluded there were some positive outcomes such as, better communication between the nurses, more involvement from the patient, also fewer falls and medication errors were found based on the study. On the contrary, the study showed that some nurses had negative attitudes toward the amount of time to take to complete bedside reports, and some nurses wasn’t consistent with the implementations of the reporting (Sand-Jeklin and Sherman, 2014). This study shows not only does bedside reporting had positive outcomes, but also some nurses was not satisfied with the format. So the consumer of the article it is important to weigh both the positive and the negative and come on with what could work for

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