Technological advancements continue to affect our daily lives by reshaping how certain tasks are carried out. One particular industry that is evolving in how care is delivered is the healthcare industry. Technological change affects healthcare organizations as a whole. It can affect healthcare organizations socially and ethically as well (Liebler & McConnell, 2008, p. 10). Since nurses help make-up the largest amount of workers in any healthcare organization, I decided to primarily focus on some of the challenges that nurses face with technological changes in their industry, as well as legal and ethical implications of these changes. (Kleib, Simpson, & Rhodes, 2016). Information technology such as informatics and its success is highly determined
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In figure 1, healthcare, ethics, and informatics are intertwined (ALUAS, 2016). This figure is meant to highlight the three different parts that cannot successfully exist independent of one another. Since one of the implications of technology in health care is added responsibility, health care providers like nurses who may practice informatics need to pay special attention to informatics ethics. A few of the information ethics include “respect for information property, respect for privacy, fair representation, and non-maleficence” (ALUAS, 2016). Although Asmelash agreed that the additional code of ethics is necessary. She also mentioned how herself and other nurses were better able to grasp the seriousness of the ethics when given the possible risks associated in the misuse of specific ethics. Next, I will discuss a suggested integration method that may prove to be helpful to …show more content…
With continuing advancements, how can healthcare organizations properly integrate these new systems with healthcare providers? Well, one way to increase integration success is by adequately training health care providers in order to encourage more positive views of these changes. Since the relationship between nurses and technology such as informatics can affect how care is delivered, nurses who participated in the informatics “educational event” were found better aware of the importance of informatics (Kleib, Simpson, & Rhodes, 2016). Asmelash said she would support educational events as she says it may help nurses who need higher informatics competency. The main important point that the educational event brought to light is that organizations have to keep educating their nurses to ensure they meet informatics competency. The continued education must be a requirement for organizations who seek to ease the transition within the organization. The reason this type of continued education is crucial is because it places patients as a top priority (Parker,
In figure 1, healthcare, ethics, and informatics are intertwined (ALUAS, 2016). This figure is meant to highlight the three different parts that cannot successfully exist independent of one another. Since one of the implications of technology in health care is added responsibility, health care providers like nurses who may practice informatics need to pay special attention to informatics ethics. A few of the information ethics include “respect for information property, respect for privacy, fair representation, and non-maleficence” (ALUAS, 2016). Although Asmelash agreed that the additional code of ethics is necessary. She also mentioned how herself and other nurses were better able to grasp the seriousness of the ethics when given the possible risks associated in the misuse of specific ethics. Next, I will discuss a suggested integration method that may prove to be helpful to …show more content…
With continuing advancements, how can healthcare organizations properly integrate these new systems with healthcare providers? Well, one way to increase integration success is by adequately training health care providers in order to encourage more positive views of these changes. Since the relationship between nurses and technology such as informatics can affect how care is delivered, nurses who participated in the informatics “educational event” were found better aware of the importance of informatics (Kleib, Simpson, & Rhodes, 2016). Asmelash said she would support educational events as she says it may help nurses who need higher informatics competency. The main important point that the educational event brought to light is that organizations have to keep educating their nurses to ensure they meet informatics competency. The continued education must be a requirement for organizations who seek to ease the transition within the organization. The reason this type of continued education is crucial is because it places patients as a top priority (Parker,