Nursing Informatic Analysis

Nursing informatics is an important aspect of nursing practice. There are various definitions of nursing informatics but it all come down to the merging of patient care (nursing) and technology (Birz, 2015). I personally have not had any experience of working in the healthcare and my knowledge is limited to my observation at clinical during my LPN program. I noticed the use of computers for dictation and the barcode scanning when giving medication and I felt that was pretty cool. The healthcare delivery system drastically continues to change and nurses and other health care providers are expected to be technological competent to keep up with the change. Nurses have be up to date with the new medication, development and technology (Daniel & Oyetunde, 2013). Access to up to date information is a very significant part of decision making and nursing practice in the health care. Nurses are constantly working in an information intensive environment (Canadian Nurses Association, 2001),

In the clinical practice, it could be the use of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Computer-Based Patient Record (CPR), monitoring devices that record vital signs, the use of computer – generated nursing care plans and critical pathways or work lists to remind staff of planned nursing interventions, etc. The administration use of nursing informatics involves the health care information system, analyzing outcome, quality assurance, etc. (Bengan, 2013). In education, this is similar to what we are doing now, the use of various technologies in studying, PowerPoint , MS Word, online learning session, interactive videos, etc. Finally in the Nursing research, informatics is very important in searching through academic and scholarly journals such as CINAHL, Medline and Web sources, the use of evidence based practice, etc. (Bengan,