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Informatics is known as putting data into information (Hebda & Czar, 2013). This is significant to nursing and health care because healthcare workers use informatics everyday. Through the use of technology, data is taken and transcribed into information in healthcare. I will use software to input a client’s information; I can use it to communicate with other healthcare workers and share needed information. Informatics develops my career as a nurse and helps me advance the maximum effort I can put in as a healthcare worker. Whether its using an electronic blood pressure machine or reading x-rays from a computer, informatics plays a significant role in healthcare. Throughout this paper, informatics will be discussed on how it influences nursing, changes the future of health care, and how I will play a role informatics in the future.
Informatics has integrated itself into the nursing practice daily. Sensmeier (2010) states, “Nursing informatics is known today as the "specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice." A main part of a nurse’s job is gathering data and turning it into information that all of the healthcare takers can use. For example, a nurse must take vital signs as part of their “data” and in turn put it into the computer system as information. This information is used to help care for the patient. Informatics impacts a nurse’s duties because of the technology utilized each day. The use of this technology developed transforms the nursing career because it improves patient safety, quality, and efficiency of care delivery (Sensmeier, 2010). Within the technology, nursing care is ultimately impro...

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...advanced extremely. Informatics will continue to advance and I plan to develop in the future as well.

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Cipriano, P. F. (2011). The future of nursing and health IT: The quality elixir. Nursing
Economics, 29(5), 286-289. Retrieved from http://www.nursingeconomics.net/n ecfiles/news/so_11_cipriano.pdf Hebda, T., & Czar, P. (2013). Handbook of informatics for nurses & healthcare professionals (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Sensmeier, J.E. (2010). Nursing informatics: Designing the healthcare of the future. Nursing
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Stevens, M. (2010). Nurses as power users: The role of nursing informatics in health IT is growing. Clinical Innovation + Technology. Retrieved from http://www.clinical-innovation.com/topics/clinical-practice/nurses-power-users-role-nursing-informatics-health-it-growing

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