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Nursing Informatics: Enhancing Patient Care

This document provides an introduction to nursing informatics. It defines healthcare informatics as the integration of healthcare, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to manage healthcare information. Nursing informatics is the practice and science of integrating nursing information and knowledge with technology to manage and integrate health information. The goals of nursing informatics are to improve patient care, solve problems in the nursing workplace, and produce globally competitive nurses. Factors that paved the way for the development of healthcare informatics include the increase in medical knowledge and cases as well as the difficulty of merging data. The trends toward informatics include changing technology and the need to transform data into useful knowledge while maintaining privacy and security. The role of informatics in nursing is to help

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Nursing Informatics: Enhancing Patient Care

This document provides an introduction to nursing informatics. It defines healthcare informatics as the integration of healthcare, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to manage healthcare information. Nursing informatics is the practice and science of integrating nursing information and knowledge with technology to manage and integrate health information. The goals of nursing informatics are to improve patient care, solve problems in the nursing workplace, and produce globally competitive nurses. Factors that paved the way for the development of healthcare informatics include the increase in medical knowledge and cases as well as the difficulty of merging data. The trends toward informatics include changing technology and the need to transform data into useful knowledge while maintaining privacy and security. The role of informatics in nursing is to help

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INTRODUCTION TO NURSING INFORMATICS Healthcare Informatics

• Defined as the integration of healthcare sciences,


• CMO No. 5 series 2008 – passed by the CHED in Jan., computer science, information science, and cognitive
2008 to all deans of colleges of nursing throughout the science to assist in the management of healthcare
country information. Also called health informatics
1. to replace the basic computer subject with the 3- Subdomains of Healthcare Informatics :
unit Nursing Informatics 1. Medical Informatics
2. to maintain the global competitiveness of Philippine 2. Dental Informatics
nurses. 3. Pharmacy Informatics
4. Nursing Informatics
• CMO no. 14 series 2009- passed in April 2009 to
subject code Nursing Informatics with IT Main Goals of Nursing Informatics
• Improve patient care
• Solve problems in the nursing workplace
• Produce globally-competitive nurses

Florence Nightingale
• early public health informaticist mid 1800, Crimean
war, thought of developing an efficient documentation
system to compare outcomes after applying the best
interventions to wounded war patients.
• led to a total reorganization of how healthcare
statistics should be collected.

Nurses
• Absorb the most impact since they are the ones in
Factors that Paved the Way to the Development of most direct and with most prolonged contact with the
Healthcare Informatics. patient who ultimately receives the latest treatment
and care technologies.
Origin of Healthcare informatics:
Nurses’ top 4 problems in workplace
1. increase in K
1. Documentation is excessive
- many specialties and subspecialties
• Eats up 30 to 60 percent of work time
- better but fractionalized treatment (difficult to view
• Seldom engage in a normal comforting conversation
the entire patient)
with the patient
2. increased number of health cases • Paperless, 15% of a nurse’s shift.
- (pop’n, discovery of more diseases, extension of life
2. Turnaround time too long
expectancy)
• Starts from the time a request is made to the time it
3. difficult to merge data that we find and K we is fully accomplished.
already have • Ideal is 15 minutes for lab pro with simpler prep

4. lack of time to channel them to information and 3. Accuracy of processes


knowledge • Medication errors ( ordering and admin) 1st
• Labeling errors (2nd)
Informatics
• A science that combines a domain science, computer • Automation of these processes mostly done beside a
science, information science, and cognitive science. patient leads to greater reduction of errors.
4. Communication between members of the • provides training & learning based on objective data
healthcare team not efficient • selects and tests new health devices
• Chat, telephony, videoconferencing, e-mail, text • reduces health care errors & costs
messaging • enhances end –to-end treatment and continuity of
care
Nursing informatics
• Practice & science of integrating nursing information
& knowledge with technology to manage & integrate
health information

• goal of nursing informatics is to improve the health


of people and communities while reducing costs

• “specialty that integrates nursing science with


multiple information and analytical sciences to
identify, define, manage and communicate data,
information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing
practice”.

Why the TRENDS towards Informatics?


• Increasingly present in our profession due to rapidly
changing technologic advances
• healthcare systems are assimilating technology into
daily practice at a quick pace
• security and patient privacy must be upheld while
achieving the goal of transforming data into useful
knowledge

The Role of Informatics in Nursing


• help identify potential problems earlier
• identifying changes in patient status can occur
quickly
• information is readily available
• data are interpreted, systematized, & arranged
• formalize an appropriate plan of action
• aligns nursing best practice with clinical workflows &
care
• improves clinical policies , protocols, processes &
procedures
• standardizing nursing language
• use of a template can remind you of important
information required in the documentation of patient
care
• strengthen nurses’ clinical decision-making skills
• enhance nursing practice
• quicker access to patient information
• improve overall efficiency
• reduction in potential errors
• nursing informatics has the potential to change
nursing practice for the better → patient care delivery

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