The Future of Nursing Informatics

“Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.” Myrtle Aydelotte

From meaningful use to accountable care, healthcare trends are transforming nurses' roles, responsibilities and career trajectories. Key to being part of this change is nursing informatics. The field has already begun to flourish.

The American Nurses Association has developed standards for nursing informatics. The American Organization of Nurse Executives has endorsed principles to enhance clinical outcomes by leveraging technology.

Another guidepost is the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative Foundation, which recommends educators adopt informatics competencies for all levels of nursing education and practice, and reform the nursing curriculum by integrating healthcare information technology.

Achieving success in developing nursing informatics will also require collaboration between hospital executives, nursing leaders, nursing management, nursing staff and nursing schools.

http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Features/Articles/Informatics-the-Future-of-Nursing-Practice.asp

Healthcare and technology are two important topics that continue to change and grow as time moves forward. Nursing Informatics is only going to get bigger and better. I see nursing schools offering an informatics class to students in their first semester, and I also hope to see the nursing profession embrace technology better.

http://cebunurse.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/what-is-the-future-of-nursing-informatics/ 

Many future nursing informatics guideposts involve education. Educational programs must prepare nursing students to work in multidisciplinary teams. Future nurse informaticians will be professional knowledge workers who will employ advanced information technologies and new health care information content to help to create and evaluate innovative solutions that coordinate future health care delivery by care teams. New nursing information management systems must be developed to help nurses evaluate workflow, assess risk, plan care strategies, and evaluate outcomes. Inherent in this process is a critical need to develop Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) knowledge, which is underway through numerous collaborations with university and other health care organizations and industry. The electronic health record vendor community can contribute by partnering with academic centers, to create curriculums that teach EBN embedded in EHR-related content and processes. This will enhance nurses developing new skills as knowledge workers with expertise in clinical decision support. Such a vendor-based strategy can build a nurse community/vendor industry model network. Frameworks to embed the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) and the Nursing Management Minimum Data Set (NMMDS) into the EHR provide another nursing data model focused on the continuum of health care.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2215078/

Promising Future for Nursing Informatics

Nursing informatics is an excellent career choice for nurses who want to apply technology and information science to their clinical base. The future of this industry is very promising. Respondents of the 2007 HIMSS/McKesson survey gave varied positive responses for their vision of the future of nursing informatics.

• Nursing informatics will be integral in an organization's decision making process in purchasing and implementing clinically related technology
• Nursing informatics will continue to expand and flourish as healthcare technology grows, eventually affecting other departments such as IT and assuming more administrative roles
• Nursing informatics will improve the quality and safety of patient care while lowering cost
• Nursing informatics and EMR will positively influence each other

http://www.allhealthcaredegrees.com/career/informatics_nursing.htm

The Impact When Caring and Technology Meets <3

Caring is the essence of nursing.  ~ Jean Watson

Caring and Technology had different capabilities, but in caring in the patient with technology may give the best quality of care. why did i say it give the best quality of care? As a nursing student i want to learn everything to apply all knowledge in caring all the patient but sometimes we cannot give whole quality of care without the advance technology. some example of technology use in hospital settings to reduce error and to easily identify the problem are X-ray machine, Ultrasound machine, and many more.

Caring is not a simple way because in caring the patient is still a trial and error. During the treatment of patient you don't have any assurance that the patient is recovered because you applying all knowledge you learn how to care the patient but still they had a chances of error.

Technology is not function without the command of the person, still the machine cannot treating the patient but in the combination of caring and technology will reduce the error and can easily work fast. Now, it is not difficult to care the patient because of the help of two words which is CARING and TECHNOLOGY and had a differ meaning.

Caring and Technology had different function but is still they help each other to be accessible all information by caring the patient.

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Technology is a knowledge of using tools and machines to do tasks more efficiently. We use technology to control the world we live in.   Since the art of making fire and creating handcrafted tools, our civilization has come a long way. Science and Technology are making advances at an astonishing rate. From telephones to the Internet, calculators to computers, cars to rockets and satellites, we are part of a new world of discoveries and inventions made possible by Science. Fields like Medicine and communications have changed our cultures and our lifestyles. The technology that surrounds almost everyone in the modern society, affects both work and recreational activities. Technology is one of the principal driving forces of the future; it is transforming our lives and shaping our future at incomparable rates in history. Technology is constantly changing, and advancing.

Many different elements affect how satisfied we are with our lives. The impact of technology on these elements can change how safe, healthy and happy people feel. Throughout history, people have looked for better ways to meet their needs and to satisfy their expectations. Technology has improved the way people feed, clothe and shelter themselves. Technology has also changed other aspects of everyday life, such as health care, education, job satisfaction, and leisure time activities.

http://about-your-self.blogspot.com/2011/05/impact-when-caring-and-technology-meets.html

One of the important roles of the nurse is to be a patient advocate and to protect the interests of patients when the patients themselves cannot because of illness or inadequate health knowledge. The use of information and communication technology in nursing, is revolutionizing the way nurses interact with patients, deliver care and communicate with colleagues.

Health care is one of the most pressing challenges facing our nation. Almost any discussion related to improving healthcare, whether it implicates reducing costs or improving patient safety and satisfaction, usually has technology as a core component.

Technology will not solve the problem, but used appropriately will contribute to the transformation of healthcare, as it has in many other industries. With the progression of health care and technology over the last decade, example is the electronic medical record (EMR), we have seen many benefits to patient care including improvements in documentation, better legibility of chart notes and prescriptions, improvements in awareness of drug interactions, more attention to preventive health care and improved tracking of test results, and scheduling of follow up visits and future testing, to name a few.

http://www.ciefrenak.org/category/information-technology

Factors of Nursing Knowledge on Health Care Informatics

 "It is not how much you do but how much love you put in the doing." 
- Mother Theresa

 Nursing Informatics is not new, but it certainly is NOW! Technology is dramatically altering the ways in which we diagnose, treat, care for and manage patients. It is our past and it is our present. Our Mission is to support evidence-based nursing practice and improved patient outcomes with technology solutions that enhance nursing communication, documentation and efficiency. We pursue our mission endlessly and passionately! Nursing leadership at Cleveland Clinic has long recognized that superior quality of care depends on the alignment of people, processes and technology. The Department of Nursing Informatics -within the Nursing Institute- plays an essential role in defining and implementing the strategy for innovative technological systems and processes to support the delivery of quality patient care and to enhance nursing practice. Nursing Informatics participates in multidisciplinary strategic planning to determine system solutions that support patient care, set standards for clinical applications, conform to accreditation standards and regulatory requirements and transform clinical practice. The department also facilitates the development of automation policies, procedures and guidelines for nursing and is the primary liaison between the Cleveland Clinic Information Technology Division and the Nursing Institute. The Nursing Informatics department is now comprised of registered nurses, educators, systems analysts, a web analyst, a security coordinator and system administrators whose focus is to enhance nursing practice through the creative use of technology, maximizing nursing productivity, improving the work environment infrastructure and further supporting the Clinic’s world class excellence in patient care. http://kochimomoy.blogspot.com/

Health and nursing information science is the study of how health care data is acquired, communicated, stored, and managed, and how it is processed into information and knowledge. This knowledge is useful to nurses in decision-making at the operational, tactical, and strategic planning levels of health care. Information systems used in health care include the people, structures, processes, and manual as well as automated tools that collect, store, interpret, transform, and report practice and management information. http://nursing-informatics.com/process.html

 Health and nursing information science is the study of how health care data is acquired, communicated, stored, and managed, and how it is processed into information and knowledge. This knowledge is useful to nurses in decision-making at the operational, tactical, and strategic planning levels of health care. Information systems used in health care include the people, structures, processes, and manual as well as automated tools that collect, store, interpret, transform, and report practice and management information. http://nursing-informatics.com/process.html

The realization that health care data and information can be effectively managed and communicated using computer systems and telecommunications has catalyzed the emergence of the science of nursing informatics. More and more, with each passing year, "high tech and high touch" are becoming a way of life in the practice of nursing. This can only become common reality if nurses are comfortable working with computers and advanced technology while providing evidence based care for their clients. http://nursing-informatics.com/process.html

At present, nursing informatics is still an emerging field of study. National nursing organizations support the need for nurses to become computer literate and well versed in the dynamics of nursing informatics. We are at a transition period. Becoming educated in nursing informatics has been, for the most part, a self-directed and independent endeavor. Programs that offer basic and further education in nursing informatics are beginning to spring up around the globe, but many more are needed to provide easy access for motivated nurses. Advances in nursing informatics are in the infancy stage, yet, show promise for the future where this science will contribute significantly to envisioned new health care delivery systems world-wide. http://nursing-informatics.com/process.html