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