The Impact of Technology on the Art of Nursing Care
Renetria Drake
NURS 2412
Abstract
There have been rapid changes in healthcare over the last few years. With Legislation like the Affordable Healthcare Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of 1996 (HIPPA), healthcare and technology collide to drastically change how nursing care is delivered. Several emerging technologies that directly affect nursing care: diagnostic s and treatments, biometrics, electronic healthcare records and computerized physician/provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision and smart alarms.
II. Biometrics In order to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of 1996 (HIPPA) developers …show more content…
With CPOE, providers produce clearly typed orders, reducing medication errors based on inaccurate transcription. It gives clinical decisions support CDS, access to information tools that support the providers in decisions related to diagnosis, therapy and care planning. Clinical decision support is broadly defined as “a process from enhancing health-related decisions and actions with pertinent, organized clinical knowledge and patient information to improve health and healthcare delivery (Huston, 2013). What I would like to see is the doctor equipped with a tablet that they can use at the bedside to enter notes and make orders from. I can’t tell you how often there’s an instance when a patient forgets to ask the physician for a change in medication form from pills to IV or just a different pain med all together etc. All too often doctors enter a room emptied hand or armed with just maybe a pen or a cell phone. Patients suddenly suffer from “white coat syndrome”, too intimidated to ask for what they really want when the practitioner enters the room. Patients almost always wait until the practitioner leaves the room, only to ask the nurse for something moments later that should have been addressed to the physician. Nurses never enter a room emptied handed. Patients expect us to come with the COW, locked, loaded, and stocked with any …show more content…
“Decline in Utilization Rates Signals a Change in the Inpatient Business Model.” http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/03/08/decline-in-utilization-rates-signals-a-change-in-the-inpatient-business-model/
Huston, C., (May 31, 2013) "The Impact of Emerging Technology on Nursing Care: Warp Speed Ahead" OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol. 18, No. 2, Manuscript 1.
Knox, R. (November 2013). “How A Vitamin D Test Misdiagnosed African-Americans”. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/11/20/246393329/how-a-vitamin-d-test-misdiagnosed-african-americans
Papandrea, D. (April, 2015) “7 Tech Breakthroughs that will Make You a Better Nurse” http://www.travelnursing.org/nursing-technology-7-advancements-you-should-know-about/
Peterson, L. & (Feb. 2015) “Fewer Family Physicians Are in Solo Practices” J Am Board Fam Med January-February 2015 vol. 28 no. 1 11-12
Powe, C. (November 2013). “Vitamin D–Binding Protein and Vitamin D Status of Black Americans and White Americans” N Engl J Med 2013; 369:1991-2000.
Readmissions Reductions Program (HRRP) https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/acuteinpatientpps/readmissions-reduction-program.html
Wiser, Nanette. 2016. “NursesRx: The Top Healthcare Trends for 2016”
Renetria Drake
NURS 2412
Abstract
There have been rapid changes in healthcare over the last few years. With Legislation like the Affordable Healthcare Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of 1996 (HIPPA), healthcare and technology collide to drastically change how nursing care is delivered. Several emerging technologies that directly affect nursing care: diagnostic s and treatments, biometrics, electronic healthcare records and computerized physician/provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision and smart alarms.
II. Biometrics In order to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of 1996 (HIPPA) developers …show more content…
With CPOE, providers produce clearly typed orders, reducing medication errors based on inaccurate transcription. It gives clinical decisions support CDS, access to information tools that support the providers in decisions related to diagnosis, therapy and care planning. Clinical decision support is broadly defined as “a process from enhancing health-related decisions and actions with pertinent, organized clinical knowledge and patient information to improve health and healthcare delivery (Huston, 2013). What I would like to see is the doctor equipped with a tablet that they can use at the bedside to enter notes and make orders from. I can’t tell you how often there’s an instance when a patient forgets to ask the physician for a change in medication form from pills to IV or just a different pain med all together etc. All too often doctors enter a room emptied hand or armed with just maybe a pen or a cell phone. Patients suddenly suffer from “white coat syndrome”, too intimidated to ask for what they really want when the practitioner enters the room. Patients almost always wait until the practitioner leaves the room, only to ask the nurse for something moments later that should have been addressed to the physician. Nurses never enter a room emptied handed. Patients expect us to come with the COW, locked, loaded, and stocked with any …show more content…
“Decline in Utilization Rates Signals a Change in the Inpatient Business Model.” http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/03/08/decline-in-utilization-rates-signals-a-change-in-the-inpatient-business-model/
Huston, C., (May 31, 2013) "The Impact of Emerging Technology on Nursing Care: Warp Speed Ahead" OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol. 18, No. 2, Manuscript 1.
Knox, R. (November 2013). “How A Vitamin D Test Misdiagnosed African-Americans”. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/11/20/246393329/how-a-vitamin-d-test-misdiagnosed-african-americans
Papandrea, D. (April, 2015) “7 Tech Breakthroughs that will Make You a Better Nurse” http://www.travelnursing.org/nursing-technology-7-advancements-you-should-know-about/
Peterson, L. & (Feb. 2015) “Fewer Family Physicians Are in Solo Practices” J Am Board Fam Med January-February 2015 vol. 28 no. 1 11-12
Powe, C. (November 2013). “Vitamin D–Binding Protein and Vitamin D Status of Black Americans and White Americans” N Engl J Med 2013; 369:1991-2000.
Readmissions Reductions Program (HRRP) https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/acuteinpatientpps/readmissions-reduction-program.html
Wiser, Nanette. 2016. “NursesRx: The Top Healthcare Trends for 2016”