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Information systems

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Information Systems

What role do nurses have in selecting and evaluating information systems within your

work environment? What strategies facilitated the implementation of the information

system, and/or what were the barriers to implementation?

A well-designed information system is significant in the healthcare system. This is

because it ensures and facilitates the easier and faster flow of information required for efficient

processing and documentation. Nurses are significant and play an important role in the safety of

patients where the nursing quality and the electronic documentation have a vastly positive effect

on the life of patients. The primary coordinating function of nurses within the team of patient

care has resulted in recognition of nurses as one of the most significant groups and users of

patient record registrar. This is because evaluating the information system is essential for the

determination of treatment side effects, avails the required information for knowledge

improvement, and guarantees the presence of an efficient information system. Therefore, nurses

play a fundamental role in the selection and evaluation of information systems within the

hospital work environment.

One of the primary roles of nurses in the selection and assessment of information systems

is to stay up to date with contemporary technologies. The nurses have significant roles in

evaluating efficient, inexpensive, efficient, and effective technologies in producing better

outcomes that result in improving patient lives. With the rise in technology and the various

modern ways of patient care, the nurse is charged with the evaluation of technologies that are

relevant and results in the best practice of care to enhance and improve life (Nelson & Staggers,

2014). Secondly, nurses also select and evaluate information systems with the role of making

shared decisions. Information systems should enhance the opportunity for shared decisions to
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improve patient care and healthcare delivery. As such, evaluating the system by nurses involves

assessing the accuracy and shared decisions making of the system to prevent compromise.

Additionally, nurses can also evaluate information systems to assess the advancements attained

and the roles of the system within the system of healthcare for patient care. This is because

healthcare information systems should strive to enhance healthcare delivery, and if a system falls

short of that, it should be discarded (Nelson & Staggers, 2014). Moreover, assessing and

selecting technology is done merely to expose and find out the problems in particular

technologies and request necessary alterations. The alterations performed on the assessed system

should ultimately result in improved patient care.

The main strategy, which facilitated the implementation of the information systems,

includes the need to lower the time wasted and spent unnecessarily. The information systems

enhance the process of data retrieval and analysis that avoiding wastage of time. Additionally,

the information systems are implemented to enhance and fasten actions. By implementing an

information system, the nurses and medical practitioners can access data readily and thus avoid

time-wasting (Ammenwerth et al. 2011). Besides, the information systems also enhance

healthcare delivery by limiting patient errors during patient care. As such, the nurses can care for

the patient error-free. Notably, the implementation of the information system is also done due to

the need to monitor and read the vital statistics of patients accurately and be alert to avoid

complications and consequences. This ensures that the patient achieves the maximum and

beneficial care since the system also increases the time the nurse spends with the patient.

Nonetheless, there are barriers to the implementation of the information systems. For

instance, hospitals are faced with the problems of the high cost of procuring information system

devices. The majority of modern devices are expensive and often have maintenance issues that
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also require financial strength. Additionally, hospitals also lack trained medical staff to handle

and manage the current information systems (Recerca Salut, 2014). Additionally, the staff is also

unable to identify the faults in the systems in case of breakdown. The lack of competence in the

use of new technologies and inadequate training to nurses about the latest technologies are also

significant factors and barriers that impact the implementation of the system.
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References

Nelson, R., & Staggers, N. (2014). Health informatics: An interprofessional approach (2nd ed.).

Mosby. 

Master Recerca Salut. (2014, March 27). Information Technology To Support Nursing Decision-

Making [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/kldCT3ml_OQ

Ammenwerth, E., Rauchegger, F., Ehlers, F., Hirsch, B., & Schaubmayr, C. (2011). Effect of a

nursing information system on the quality of information processing in nursing: An evaluation

study using the HIS-monitor instrument. International journal of medical informatics, 80(1), 25-

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