Nursing Informatics

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This paper discusses the role of informatics or ICTs in the field of nursing as a medical profession. The researcher posits that, for an ideal and efficient nursing informatics operation, two important objectives must be met: an increase in the efficiency of handling healthcare servicing to patients and an increase in the potential of getting nurses involved in research and studies. The paper discusses these objectives in relation to the implementation of an ideal informatics system in the workplace setting among nursing professionals.

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"The introduction of a database system, then, would automatically quantify patient cases that can become potential data or information that nurses could use for their research on specific topics or areas relevant and significant to the improvement of nursing science. The ease of collecting data/information about nursing and its application in the medical field is an important advantage that an efficient database system can provide to healthcare professionals like nurses. Another potential that nursing informatics can provide for nurses is the determination of "nursing problems, interventions, and outcomes in a standardized format to be stored in administrative and clinical data repositories" (Swan, 2004:330). With these efficiencies in terms of storing and retrieving data and patient cases both for research and administrative uses, informatics or the establishment of a database system in the medical workplace will help pave the way for the improvement of quality nursing care and healthcare service, not to mention the improvement in nurses' skills and knowledge in the field of nursing science and research."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Pressure growing for healthcare IT adoption." (2006). Healthcare Financial Management, Vol. 60, Issue 1.
• Swan, B. (2004). "Access to quality health care: links between evidence, nursing language, and informatics." Nursing Economics, Vol. 22, Issue 6.
• Young, D. (2002). "CMS starts nursing-home quality-performance reporting project." American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Vol. 59, Issue 2.

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