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Reflective Journal 4
Introduction
During my fourth week of the EPIQ-RN course, our educator taught us about nursing
strategic planning, patient satisfaction, and, ultimately, patient outcomes (Wang, Gephart,
Description
I felt excited to learn about nursing informatics system, as it was a new topic for me. Back in
my home country, there is no system of nursing informatics. If anybody wants to know about
the patient, there have to go to the record room and find the correct file of the patient, which
is very time consuming and sometimes they never find the correct file.
Feelings
I felt that it is an essential part of the infrastructure to improve access to health information,
make patient care safer, decrease health care costs, and improve outcomes (Pordeli, 2018). I
also felt that there should be a nursing informatics system in every hospital to ensure that
Evaluation
The whole experience taught me how nursing informatics work and how it benefits the
patient’s outcomes.
Analysis
Today, nurses are working in advanced technological healthcare systems but many entering
the workforce are not prepared and lack the informatics competencies needed (Found, 2012).
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Conclusion
Nursing informatics has become an essential and fast-growing specialty. Hence, nurses
should know regarding it and reflect in their practice. Nurse leaders should support, promote
Action plan
In the future, I intend to make myself more familiar with nursing informatics system. I would
also plan to attend online training and seminars about nursing informatics to update me with
References
Informatics, 7(2).
Wang, J., Gephart, S., Mallow, J., & Bakken, S. (2019). Models of collaboration and