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Nursing
Informatics
Introduction
The worlds of health care, communication, and information technologies
are ever evolving, separately and together. As nurses in the the community
expand thier practice definition to embrace new information technologies,
opportunities for improved health care to populations seem endless. This
evolution is seen as a merger of health care technology with information and
communications technology, fostering the design and implementation of health
care management information systems in a variety of clinical practice
settings.the clinical practice settings involved in this new technology include
both the acute care and community-based practice environments. Organizations
such as hospitals and community-based agencies such as public health
departements and home agencies use information and communications
technologies to collect, restore, retrieve, analyze, and present client care data in
the care delivery settings. Health care continues to be a human endeavor that is
necessarily complex in nature. Decisions related to client care continue to
increase in complexity, with the need for rapid, accurate information for clinical
decisions making as a priority for effective care.
Definition of Nursing Informatics
Nursing Informatics uses nursing science, computer and communications
technologies to produce effective and efficient client outcomes for individuals
and communities.
Informatics
Informatics generally can be defined as the art and science of turning data
into information. The more recently informatics defined as the study of the
application of computer tcchnology and ststistical techniques to the
management of information.
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General Application
Nursing Practice → medication instructions, discharge instructions for
patients.
Administration → automated staff scheduling.
Education → Access to library and internet sources for students.
Research → Computerized literature searching.
It will add to nursing knowledge, improving quality of care, and provide
high level of competence of patients care.
Internet can provide marketing services such as job postings,
advertisment of health srvices, dissemenation and revision of product
information and on line risk assessment.
The Science of Nursing Informatics
The emergence of the specialty known as nursing informatics is not a
recent phenomenon. That nurses have been using computers since the 1950s and
emerged as an advanced specialty in the 1980s. According to Graves and
Corcoran devised aconceptual framwork describes the relationship among
computer science, information systems science, and nursing science. That
believed that information management processing of nursing data is achieved
through the collection of data, the transformation of nursing data into nursing
information, the finally into nursng knowledge.
Nursing
Nursing Data . information Nursing knowledge
For example
The collection of individual data element "Raw Data" the transition of
raw data to knowledge is a three phased process.
"Nursing Data" is the raw data such as client name, age, gender, diagnosis
when the nurse form a relationships between the raw data elements " form fully
picture of client's clinical status this is called "Nursing Information "
then the nurse acts on this information by formulating a set of interventions to
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deal with the particulars of a specific client care situation. That are in a form
that can be subjects to analysis and interpretation. Nursing information realidy
lends itself to archiving or storage in computer data bases that allow rational
grouping of nursing information then allows for aggregation of information and
the systematic study of nursing related phenomena . sets of nursng information
that conform to theoretical and conceptul frameworks are known as " Nursing
Knowledge"
Hence, computerized information systems used in the comunity health
nursing practice setting can assist in the development of nursing knowlege
throuhgh the automated process of collecting.
Benefits of Nursing Informatics for Community Halth Nursing.
1- Help in collect client data for other disciplines, the profession
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complications and number of hospital visits. It also supports the data collection
and documentation by using technology.
Web Based Solution for care coordination can integrate results from
biometric measures and diagnostics tests to antomatically alert the clinican
about the panic values.
Elderly with hearing problems can use the mail order to maintain
communication and not use the telephone conversation.
In elderly homes, the institution can use monitoring system which contain
sensors to detect falls and alert the nurse to the problem. Also she can use
informatics in data collection and documentation .telecommunication and web
based management can used in elderly homes.community health nurse should
create a strategy that puts them in control of their roles to improve the CHN in
balance with the rapid technology.