Healthcare

Discuss the impact of computer technology on professional nursing practice

The impact of computer technology on professional nursing practice was really something,

it is a very big impact for it really help us in many ways. We all know that nowadays

everything can come instant with the help of technology, like when someone or we are sick

we simply search on what medicine to take on the internet and then with just one click the

answer is there.

So in nursing practice using computer technology like the EHR ( electronic health record);

CIS ( Clinical Information System) was really a big help because in time of emergency,

nurses or even doctors can had an immediate access or response to the scenario because

having these systems helps health care providers to have an easy access and can have an

instant accurate and complete information, and with that patients will receive a better

medical care!

EHR (Electronic Health Record) can improve the ability to diagnose diseases and reduce,

and even prevent-medical errors, improving patient outcomes. EHR not only keeps a record

of a medications or allergies, it also automatically checks for problems whenever a new

medication is prescribed and alerts us when there are conflicts. So the impact of this will

help us nurses to quickly and systematically identify and correct problems.

CIS (Clinical Information System) is a computerized system that organizes, stores and double

chechs all your medical information, your health history, prescriptions, and all the

information are keep together electronically, this replace the paper charts.

So with CIS we can have an immediate access

to complete medical history and this will save our time . With computer technology this

will lead us to a better health care provider that will help our patients to receive a better

medical care !

List and discuss the new emerging computer technologies in nursing and how they impact patient care

The new emerging computer computer technnologies in nursing are

EHR ( electronic health record); CIS ( Clinical Information System) their impact to patient care was very big too because in time of emergency, nurses or even doctors can had an immediate access or response to the scenario because having these systems helps health care providers to have an easy access and can have an instant accurate and complete information, and with that the impact to the patients will receive a better medical care!

EHR (Electronic Health Record) can improve the ability to diagnose diseases and reduce,

and even prevent-medical errors, improving patient outcomes. EHR not only keeps a record

of a medications or allergies, it also automatically checks for problems whenever a new

medication is prescribed and alerts us when there are conflicts. So the impact of this will

help us nurses to quickly and systematically identify and correct problems.

CIS is a computerized system that organizes, stores and double chechs all your medical

information, your health history, prescriptions, and all the information are keep together

electronically, this replace the paper charts. So with CIS we can have an immediate access

to complete medical history and this will save our time . And we can responds immediately to the needs of our patient and the impact patients will receive a better medical care !

List several examples of how Nursing Informatics affects clinical practice, admministration, education, and research. Identify the role of the nurse in handling health care data

As we all know Nursing Informatics (NI) is a specialty that integrates nursing science,

computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information,

knowedge and wisdom in nursing practice. NI supports consumers, patients, nurses, and

other providers in their decision making in all roles and setting.

Nursing Informatics affects clinical practice through its very helpful and useful use to the

nursing profession. For it gave us an easy access to the medical records so it saves our time

and effort when it comes in documentation , and a more comprehensive and systematic

information with regards to the financial and clinical aspect of the hospitals. Through NI

we can easily communicate with the important person like specialists and doctors, for some

emergency case need their assistance. Nursing Informatics also advantages is to be a

computer literate of the future nurses that they can adjust on the modern technology of

our generation. The only disadvantage of nursing informatics for me is that they can easily

tampered the important documents of the patient and it may be lost in some instances if

there is a virus pass out to the network or in the computer. But I believe that Nursing Informatics is

a big help in the improvement and enhancement

of Nursing Care.

The role of the nurse is to characterize and evaluate health care processes and medical records to

all patients. Nursing informatics can also influence the nurses to develop and implement

heightened decision support systems. With nursing informatics, nurses will be able to improve and

promote clinical information system to patient and to other health care practitioners.

Discuss the difference between data, information, and knowledge. Define data integrity and its relevance for health care

Data is unprocessed facts and figures without any added interpretation or analysis.

Information is data that has been interpreted so that it has meaning for the user.

Knowledge is a combination of information, experience and insight that may benefit the

individual or the organisation.

Data integrity refers to maintaining and assuring the accuracy and consistency of data over its entire life-cycle.

As a health care provider, i can provide the privacy and maintain the confidentiality of my

client’s data through the information about my patient should contained on disks that can

and should be secured with other confidential client files.And I can highly recommend

simple controls such as using passwords, wiping and/or reformatting scratch disks and

using hidden files and hidden characters in file names.Having integrity is important in a

health care provider because your data is more likely to

be safe when stored on a system that is well-designed and well-manufactured, rather than

one that is cheaply made.