Victor, I agree with you on Nursing Informatics. According to the American Medical Informatics Association (2015) nurse informatics develops communication and information technologies, educators, researchers, chief nursing officers, chief information officers, software engineers, implementation consultants, policy developers, and business owners, to advance healthcare. Nursing Informatics also promotes the best health possible by integrating nursing, its information, and knowledge, with the management of information and communication technologies. Applying Informatics knowledge allows healthcare providers achieve the quality of patient care and promote the health of patients, families and communities both local and global (American Medical…
Science becomes more revolutionary as time progresses forward. New advances in technology display human’s natural desire for success and development. However, are all advancements in the technological field beneficial? Bianca Banova states in a recent article, “The Impact of Technology On Health Care, “Technology today affects every single aspect of modern society”. She discusses the importance technology has placed in the field of healthcare.…
Every day, nurses are keeping up with evidence-based practice and updating their nursing practice. Innovation does not have to be a large change- it takes one person to light the fire. As the nurse conducts the assessments and evaluations, they can determine whether their interventions were successful. If not, they change their practice by involving new medications, equipment, or assistance from others. On a bigger level, there is a wide variety of medical and pharmaceutical companies that create new machines and medications that provide improved care.…
Piscotty, R. J., Kalisch, B., & Gracey-Thomas, A. (2015). Impact of Healthcare Information Technology on Nursing Practice. Journal Of Nursing Scholarship, 47(4), 287-293 7p. doi:10.1111/jnu.12138 This article by Piscotty, Kalisch, & Gracey-Thomas discussed the impact that healthcare technology has on nursing as a whole and how it ensures each patient receives the same level of care.…
Increasing patient acuity together with the complex nature of our healthcare system calls for better patient management across the care continuum. As an advanced practice nurse, I need to translate evidence into practice change, and implement quality improvement processes in specific practice settings, systems, or with specific populations to improve health or health outcomes. Additionally, I need to be prepared not only use, but also help design the required health information technology. While I was introduced to many of these concepts during my Master of Science program, I wish to continue my education in preparation for the profession’s eventual move to DNP as entry to practice.…
"Nursing's future will be created only as the discipline underlying nursing practices is identified, structured, and continuously updated by systematic inquiry." 1. What does this mean to Schlotfeldt? The nursing future will be created as a discipline underlying the nursing practice (Cody. 2013. P. 15), through the years of the nursing profession, practices have been researched and evidence based practices (EBP) has been used to put the nursing practice into play.…
The evolution of advanced nursing practice has been influenced by changes in healthcare delivery, financial constraints and consumer demand. Also as the result of the Affordable Care Act implementation, diversity changes already occur in the health care system. Nurses like me, from old school have to adapt to the new electronic world and innovative-technologic changes. As an advanced nurse practitioner is vital to acquire the competencies and skills necessaries to function appropriate. Nurses are the front line of defense to the new challenges in the healthcare system (Wagner, 2014).…
Technology created a tremendous change especially in the aspect of healthcare and medicine. According to Banova (2013), technology has an immense impact in health as it revolutionized how healthcare is delivered. Thus, modern technologies have changed the organization and structure of the entire medical field. These health inventions have an indispensable impact to people, especially in terms of better way of living. At the same time, these inventions massively influence the economy.…
In this essay, I have discussed part of the hard work a nurse is responsible for doing with all the patients she/he is in charge of, the steps you have to follow if you want to be a nurse, and how advanced technology is. Being a registered nurse is an admirable profession that can allow one to impact the lives of others. Medicine is important for everyone and it has been proved that technology plays an important role in…
Many opportunities for nurses in coming changes will be available and will be ways to help design the future of healthcare. Because of social movements and technologic advances, the profession of nursing has growth and developed in levels of higher education, expanded practice, and the advanced practice role. Also, nursing practice has been affected by medical advances and cost containment strategies. Information technology, computers, and systems have changed the way nursing is perceived. A new level of consumerism is expected in the future as well as an older population.…
Hello, Rebecca~~ This topic is interesting to me, because when I did working as a nurse, there was a transition to bunch of new technologies, such as from hand writing to electronical charting by computers, delivery from in person to through the special tunnel like blood sample, patient’s chart, prescription, etc, at that time. According to Weckman (2009), Nurse, including one at the time of the treatment at any stage of the introduction of new technologies is to use a new technique to facilitate and increases the nurse system buy-in a smooth transition. Nurses will be adopted nurse new technology, if they have the opportunity to provide input to other planning and implementation process by carrying out various kinds of clinical trials of the device in other clinical settings, and they are to evaluate the process design whether to improve change to ensure effective work environment it was.…
It is anticipated that the use of technological tools in the nursing field will increase. There are a few components which contribute to the growth of telehealth and technology that will impact the nursing field. These factors include; demographics, nursing and health care workers shortages, chronic diseases and conditions, educated consumers, and economics. First, demographic is a change that occurs in large groups. Many Americans are living longer, raising the amount of older people in America.…
Mary, I like your post and it made me wonder about the future of nursing and health care. Do or have you had any personal “paradigm shifts” that have made an impact on your career or others’? I had a short discussion with a person in the elevator today. I asked him wondered what it would be like 30 years from now. He responded that we were already supposed to be in hover crafts and no longer in cars.…
With these changes, the nursing field is slowly becoming more…
. Computers are very vital in nursing education as they are able to store and make information available by processing it quickly. It helps to facilitate audio-visual representation of information that is taught and as such making the learning process to be both interesting and interactive. The computer assisted teaching is probably one of the best things that has happened to nursing education as it enables nurses gain more understanding and knowledge from different learning environments. However, the traditional way of acquiring knowledge is in a classroom.…