Over the past decade, almost every health care industry invested in computerization. The use of technology has become an asset in the health care world relative to the paper or hard copy files. Today, the health care systems is advancing toward relying on electronically entered and stored information to assist the healthcare providers in delivering higher quality of care to their patients.
Several thoughts immediately come to mind about the integration between nursing and trends in computerizing. Kelly (2012) identified, nursing leadership within organizational informatics is pivotal and has evolved over the years. However, without strong nursing informatics leadership, nursing requirements has been overlooked or ignored during the revolution …show more content…
Nursing informatics assist with incorporating data or information, and knowledge to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision making of all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes and information technology (American Nursing Association, 2008). Darkins (2012) mentioned that in order for informatics to work properly, technology needs to stay up to date on current treatments and procedures while also ensuring patient safety. In order to do this there needs to be a spirit of collaboration between all healthcare disciplines to provide high quality of …show more content…
The advantages of EHR are nurses no longer spend excess time consulting with others, trying to translate physician’s order, which leads to errors due to misunderstanding or misreading the orders from unreadable handwriting. With the EHR, nurses are able to quickly access previous hospital visits and care provided by healthcare professionals, as well as pertinent information about the patient in one place; the computer. This type of communication between healthcare providers allows information to be available and be retrieved at any time. In addition, with the EHR, healthcare providers has the ability to access multiple patient information at the same time on different screens tracking medications due at a certain time, new lab results, and physician
Several thoughts immediately come to mind about the integration between nursing and trends in computerizing. Kelly (2012) identified, nursing leadership within organizational informatics is pivotal and has evolved over the years. However, without strong nursing informatics leadership, nursing requirements has been overlooked or ignored during the revolution …show more content…
Nursing informatics assist with incorporating data or information, and knowledge to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision making of all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes and information technology (American Nursing Association, 2008). Darkins (2012) mentioned that in order for informatics to work properly, technology needs to stay up to date on current treatments and procedures while also ensuring patient safety. In order to do this there needs to be a spirit of collaboration between all healthcare disciplines to provide high quality of …show more content…
The advantages of EHR are nurses no longer spend excess time consulting with others, trying to translate physician’s order, which leads to errors due to misunderstanding or misreading the orders from unreadable handwriting. With the EHR, nurses are able to quickly access previous hospital visits and care provided by healthcare professionals, as well as pertinent information about the patient in one place; the computer. This type of communication between healthcare providers allows information to be available and be retrieved at any time. In addition, with the EHR, healthcare providers has the ability to access multiple patient information at the same time on different screens tracking medications due at a certain time, new lab results, and physician