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NURSING INFORMATICS, USE OF
COMPUTERS, EMR & TELENURSING

NURSING INFORMATICS Please Note

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C mponents of information systems :
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C mputer hardware and software
eT lecomunications
Databases Student’s Space

Use of Computers in Nursing rP actice

Admission, dischager and transfer

Nursing documentation
Online appointment system
Electronic medical records
OT Scheduling
E-books/online libraries/online encylopaedia
Learnig through animations
Creating question bank for students.
Records of students (personal/academic)
Records of employee of school.

Nursing Informatics

The term, nursing informatics was coined by Scholes and

barber in .1980
Nursing Iformatics combines nursing science, information
science, and computer science to manage and process
nursing data, information and knowledge to facilti ate
the delivery of healthcare. (ANA, , 208 p. 7)
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Student’s Space
The Goal of Nursing Informatics

oT improve the health of o p pulations, comunities,

families, and indvuals by optmizng nfo
i rmation
management and comunication.
Direct provision of care.
Efective adminstrative system
Supor ting life-long learnig
Supor ting nursing research

Nursing Informatics

eT chnologies that have evolved due to health care/nursing

informatics include:
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C mputerized provider order entry (CPOE)
Electronic medical records (EMRs)
Progress notes
Nursing notes
Medication records

Importance of Nursing Informatics

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C llection of data
Generation of knowledge to supor t nursing practice
Enter, retrieve and manipulate data
Decision-making process
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C ntrolled, specif and systematic way of findg relevant
information on a specif topic
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Application of Nursing Informatics

Examples of Currently used Systems
Computer-based patient record (CPRS) (Institute of medicine)
Nursing minimum data set (NMDS)
Nursing intervention classification (NIC)
Nursing outcomes classification (NOC)
North american nursing diagnosis association (NANDA)
SNOMED
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Student’s Space
Starting a Career in Nurse Informatics

→ Nurses with strong analytical and critical thinking skills

→ Project management skills
→ Master’s program in nursing (MSN) or doctoral degree
program (DNP).

Benefits

→ Use of EMR
→ Decision support software
→ Point of care computers
→ World wide web usage
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→ Complex conceptual design process
→ Acquisition cost will be very high
→ Need for multiple external databases
TELEMEDICINE
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Telemedicine refers to the practice of caring for patients

remotely when the provider and patient are not physically
present with each other. Student’s Space
“The remote delivery of healthcare services”

Elements of Telemedicine

→ Interactive Medicine
→ Asynchronous telemedicine
→ Telemonitoring

Uses of Telemedicine

→ Chronic disease management

→ Medication management
→ Sharing medical information
→ Emergency room (ER) diversion
→ Mobile health
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Uses of Telemedicine Please Note

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Student’s Space

Benefits of Telemedicine

→ Increases access to healthcare

→ Improves health outcomes
→ Reduces healthcare costs
→ Overcome healthcare shortages
→ Remote care/monitoring
→ Access to specialists

Barriers of Telemedicine

→ Confidentiality
→ Uncomfortable
→ Illiteracy and ignorance
→ Power Supply
→ Internet service

Telenursing

→ Telenursing is defined as the “use of telecommunication

technology to deliver nursing services to client at a
distance”.
→ Providing community services
→ Remote care for chronic conditions
→ Coordinating patient care
→ Assessment of conditions and triage