Introduction and Objectives In the contemporary healthcare landscape, the convergence of technology and patient care necessitates the integration of nursing informatics to optimize outcomes. This proposal advocates for the creation of a nurse informatics position focused on enhancing patient education through digital platforms. By examining the role's significance and potential impact, this proposal aims to justify the need for such a position within our organization. Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist Nursing informatics is essential in healthcare for optimizing patient outcomes through the integration of technology, data management, and nursing practice. This proposal advocates for the creation of a nurse informaticist position …show more content…
These challenges, if left unaddressed, have the potential to impede healthcare delivery and compromise patient outcomes; however, fostering open communication, providing comprehensive training, and actively involving stakeholders in the integration process can serve as effective resolutions to mitigate these challenges and ensure successful implementation of nursing informatics (Peloton, 2023). Collaborative Efforts Collaboration serves as a key strategy to address all challenges associated with establishing the nurse informaticist position. Nurse informaticists assume a pivotal role in fostering collaborative efforts aimed at enhancing workflows and ensuring technology plays a supportive role in delivering high-quality patient care (Sieja et al., 2019). Their collaborative endeavors entail working closely with healthcare professionals, IT specialists, administrators, and other stakeholders to seamlessly integrate technology into the healthcare environment. Through effective collaboration, nurse informatics can overcome obstacles and drive positive change within the healthcare …show more content…
Furthermore, nurse informaticists collaborate with clinical nurses to understand their workflow, identify challenges, and devise informatics solutions to enhance patient care and streamline processes. This collaborative approach extends to working with IT specialists to ensure the effective design, implementation, and maintenance of health information systems, thus facilitating the integration of technology into healthcare workflows (Moore et al., 2020). Additionally, collaboration with educators and trainers is crucial for developing educational programs that enhance the digital literacy of healthcare professionals. Overall, effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders is indispensable for the success of nurse informatics in implementing and optimizing health information systems, ultimately leading to improvements in healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, and overall system efficiency. Benefits of Scope Nursing informaticists serve as central connectors between healthcare, technology, and information management. Justifying the necessity for a nurse informaticist within a healthcare organization, and referencing pertinent scholarly or professional resources to validate this claim, is imperative. The integration of a nurse informatics scope enhances healthcare delivery
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Working as a professional registered nurse in the hospital, I realized how nurses struggle to find balance between devoting the time charting on the computer and spending time taking care of the patients. Moreover, I’ve seen nurses where they get discouraged trying to find this balance between patients and charting. As a bedside nurse, I would love nothing, but to tend to the needs of my patients. The length of time consume on electronic charting all day, take the very essence of bedside nursing away from nurses, which is caring. Reducing the time of nurses being occupied on charting by eliminating redundant tasks while conforming to their standard, are the changes I would like to make. These are a few of the reasons why I wanted to pursue a degree in informatics. I would advocate for nurses everywhere and to become an instrument in providing them a better electronic health system to work on. Pursuing the degree in nursing informatics will benefit me in
McBride, S., Delaney, J., & Tietze, M. (2012). Health Information Technology and Nursing. American Journal of Nursing, 112(8). Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/pdf?AID=1402619&an=00152258-201301000-00010&Journal_ID=&Issue_ID=
Healthcare is constantly changing with the intention of improving patient care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report introducing five core competencies for health professionals, in order to improve the Untied States healthcare system: provide patient-centered care, work in interdisciplinary teams, employ evidence-based practice, apply quality improvement, and utilize informatics (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2003). IOM proposes that if all five core competencies are utilized by health professionals, quality patient care can be achieved. The facility in which this nurse work, is in need of improving their charting system. The facility currently utilizes two different software systems for charting, in addition to
The authors consist of nurses, specifically: a Chief Nursing Officer, a Nursing Informatics Officer, and a Dean/Professor of Nursing at Belmont University. The article described how vital nursing documentation is to achieve optimal patient care, including improving patient outcomes & collaborating with other healthcare providers. Using Henderson’s 14 fundamental needs as a framework for their research, the authors proved a definition of basic nursing care and incorporated it into an electronic health record. The authors utilized a team of 16 direct care nurses who were knowledgeable with documenting ele...
Nursing documentation is an important factor of healthcare delivery today. The use of information and communication technology offers opportunities for improving patient care delivery while reducing nurses’ documentation load and increasing the time available for caring for various patient populations (Munyisia, Yu, & Hailey, 2012).
Technology has consumed our daily activities and continues to grow in importance as the need to simplify our world increases. With healthcare needs also steadily increasing, it is necessary to compile and retrieve patient information in an efficient manner. Thus, the Nursing Informaticist is born.
Information Systems/Technology and patient care technology for the improvement and transformation of health care is an important part of the DNP. Technology has transformed every aspect of human life in positive ways. Technology brought efficiency and improved healthcare deliverance system. Healthcare technologies enabled practitioners to better understand disease process and how to implement best treatment plan. DNP programs across the country embrace information systems and technology in their nursing curriculum because, it prepares nursing students to be innovative and deliver best care (AACN, 2006). DNP graduates must have the ability to use technology to analyze and disseminate critical information to find solutions that
Over the past decade, technological advances have paved the way for nurses to provide, quality, safe, standardized and individualized patient care (Saba & McCormick, 2015). The use of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) to manage patient data is quickly becoming widespread in the healthcare industry. The emerging use of the Electronic Health Record, is transforming how nurses care for patients. By creating and implementing an electronic, comprehensive, standardized method of recording patient data, nurses can facilitate and coordinate patient care with members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team. The use of the Electronic Health Record will promote positive
Judy Murphy wrote the article “The Nursing Informatics Workforce: Who Are They and What Do They Do?” in 2011. She is the Vice President-Information Services at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The article explains how nursing informatics (NI) workforce has changed due to what’s happening with technology and electronic health records. I will summarize the article into the three main issues that Ms. Murphy discusses and then why the article interested me.
Informatics is the science of processing data (Collins English Dictionary). Nursing informatics is defined by the American Nursing Association as “a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice” (ANA, 2008). Technology in the workplace has become one of the most talked about trends in nursing from the mid 1990’s to now as the technology nurses see on the unit and in the community rapidly changes and grows even daily. Various technologies encompassing nursing informatics are computer-based schedule system to assign staff; patient safety tracking; helping patients use a device to partake in a research project; handheld computer for educating patients; using online learning in nursing education; use of a hospital information system; finding and using research on an online network. Technology has evolved with the nursing practice from hand written charting in a patients chart to tick charting on a computer system; nursing documentation has evolved along with how nurses receive and retrieve current information from the patients. Technology helps our systems grow from one unit seeing patient information to the goal of one country accessing the same database to provide continuity of care for each patient. “By the late 1980s, most hospitals had at least a rudimentary information system that required nurses to enter common data such as admission profiles and basic care requirements like diet, medications, and treatments into a computer as part of their routine duties“ (Kwantlen University, 2011). Every day, nurses are learning new and interesting ways to do their job; convey the information and care for their patie...
The goal of this literature review is to increase our knowledge about technology use in practice and to identify where there is need for improvement. Information technology seems to be a widely discussed topic these days and most nurses have no clear idea how it can transform the way we do things on an every day basis. We will also look at the impact technology has on nursing, patients, and colleagues. We will then focus on a specific nursing setting, in this case the emergency room. This literature review is organized to grow on each independent section so that you, the reader, can form your own opinion, but take with you the universal understanding of how information technology will lead us down a new and exciting career path.
Overview of Nursing Informatics Amber Morelli Overview of Nursing Informatics This chapter outlined the history of nursing informatics (NI), discussing the evolution of NI from a definition into a recognized specialty by the American Nurses Association (ANA). Important Concepts in Nursing Informatics Graves and Corcoran provided a description and definition for nursing informatics that eventually became widely accepted in the 1990s. In 1992, a few years after this definition was coined, nursing informatics became a recognized specialty by the American Nurses Association. The ANA currently defines nursing informatics as a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practicing.
Nursing Informatics is a nursing field that involves record keeping and focuses on finding ways to improve information management and communications in nursing to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enhance the quality of patient care. This field is primarily administrative but plays a part in patient care and quality of health care. There are other types of nurses, but many people focus on the nurses who perform the medical treatments with the doctors. This is evident in many films, TV shows, and in other popular media outlets. However, many people do not know what nursing informatics is nor pay attention to that side of nursing which involves the documentation of records and other miscellaneous items, use of advances in technology to improve