Nursing Informatic Analysis

I see nursing informatics as a specialty title to health care informatics. Informatics is dealing with information, computerized information and telecommunications. Nursing informatics deals with these also but how they impact patient care. Nurses in to days world are almost all familiar with some sort of nursing informatics such as a computerized medication system or charting systems as well as discharge instructions or patient education. Every nurse at my facility uses the computer, internet, and intranet daily to conduct patient care. We punch in on a computer, get our assignment off a computer generated sheet, use Kardexes, again from the computer. I thing you get the hint. There are definitely different levels the variety of nurses …show more content…
It benefits both the patients stay and the work flow of the nurse. From the patients perspective they can expect fewer errors, shorter stays, better communication, and even more high tech rooms with vital sign equipment that enters its data into a computer automatically. Patients can also expect better education and information about a certain disease, even the rarest of them all. The benefits to nurses are tremendous. Medications are already cross referenced for interactions; computers calculate intake and output; all orders are entered and electronically delivered anywhere you want; you can look up a specific doctor in California in less than five minuets; the uses are endless. Any amount of knowledge is at our …show more content…
Nurses always come to me too look up some odd material. The internet has opened us up to a huge amount of information. You have to keep an eye out for bad material but there are plenty of sights that are very medical related. I first will do a search from google or yahoo. There alone you usually can find at least one good material to give to your patient. If I can’t find anything there you can also go into a specific medical sight such as mayohealth.org or webmd.com. Our computer system also has a link to a variety of health care sights and specialty topics to search. If I really need some specific information I put in a request with the librarian who does a wonderful job with complex journal article searches. With in a few minutes you can have virtually some specific information about any kind of topic you can dream up. I also find the internet a wonderful resource in itself. For instance, if a patient has multiple sclerosis, she can type that into a search engine and find thousands of wonderful resources such as discussion groups and even equipment to make your life