Nursing informatics could be applied to all areas of professional nursing practices. When it comes down to keeping patient records safe and performing better patient care there should be no room for mistakes. Every patient should be able to trust healthcare professionals with their personal information and subjective assessment findings. I was unaware what nursing informatics was until now and now I know we use informatics pretty much all the time in such health care professionals and facilities. Looking back on many of my clinical experiences, nursing informatics is a huge deal. During clinical I have witnessed all of the nurses are sure that they log off each computer before they leave the computer screen alone and walk away this ensures …show more content…
During clinical hours I get to observe the nurse administer medications to patients and I see that once you scan the patient you must enter in the correct site, and amount of medication that needs to be administered at what rate and must document what time and route the right medication was given. The software that the hospital uses to document on patients assists nurses with providing the best care possible for their patients and is the key to communication among all health care professionals involved in a certain patients care. Once I was in the med surg floor and the nurse I was following had to discharge a few of her patients, I found it very interesting that on the same software that healthcare providers use to document and keep patient records is the same software that can also provide the patients nurse with research and education for discharge services. Any certain type of disease process that the patient may have, the nurse can print out information that is provided by the software in order to educate the patient on certain diseases to become compliant with such complications and try to maintain the healthiest life style possible. This paper is very informative