"Go into medicine for the right reason. Don’t make it about the money---make it about caring for those who need your healing hands. Nursing is a demanding job, both physically and mentally. You will have to make sacrifices for the job, but the benefits are worth it. If it isn’t in your heart, patients will feel it."
- Palma Iacovitti, Nurse
Today’s healthcare environment continually places increasing demands on nurses to communicate, share data, and synthesize information through the use of information systems, with or without the assistance of computers. In addition to having knowledge of information systems, nurses who are computer literate have the opportunity to use the power and efficiency of computer systems to play an important role in enhancing patient care delivery, offering safe care, and shaping nursing practice.
Nursing Informatics is not new, but it certainly is now! Technology is dramatically altering the ways in which we diagnose, treat, care for and manage patients. Our Mission is to support evidence-based nursing practice and improved patient outcomes with technology solutions that enhance nursing communication, documentation and efficiency. We pursue our mission endlessly and passionately!
I once read an article, from a journal in the internet, "Nursing informatics is known today as the specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. According to the most recent national sample survey of RN's released by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), more than 9,300 nurses work in this specialty, which is focused on optimizing information management and communication to improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals. According to the HRSA report, the nursing informatics workforce is expanding, increasing by more than 6% between 2004 and 2008. Although this growth is significant, the need for informatics nurses in our current environment is outpacing their availability. According to healthcare recruiters, informatics nurses and their clinical informatics partners are in high demand. Healthcare organizations across the country are implementing large-scale, cross-organizational clinical information systems to be eligible for meaningful use incentives. These complex information systems will introduce new technologies and processes that may completely change the way clinicians work. Fortunately, nursing and clinical informaticists are at the front line of this transformation, which, if successful, will ultimately improve patient safety and outcomes."
Nurses play an important role in leveraging health information technology to improve patient safety, quality, and efficiency of care delivery. The nursing workflow is complex, which poses challenges to the adoption of technology. Informatics nurses have the right competencies and skills to drive these changes in the clinical setting, and their leadership is a necessary component for achieving success. Nursing informatics is distinguished from other nursing specialties by its special focus on the methods and technology of information handling in nursing. This focus is on the use of technology and informatics principles to address the ways nurses use data, information, and knowledge to make decisions and deliver care.
As technology expands I really think that we're going to incorporate more of it into nursing. We've already started using robots in surgeries! I could really see doctors offices using websites such as facebook and even blogging to incorporate health care. Even Skype could be helpful. If a patient has a non-life threatening question related to their health or prescriptions, they could easily hop onto Skype and chat with a nurse instead of having to drive all the way into the office.
As we start using technology more, health care should improve. We can get information out to our patients without costing them an arm and a leg for a visit. Also if we could be easily accessed, patients may be less likely to use websites that aren't accredited and may possibly have false information.
As we start using technology more, health care should improve. We can get information out to our patients without costing them an arm and a leg for a visit. Also if we could be easily accessed, patients may be less likely to use websites that aren't accredited and may possibly have false information.
As we look to the future, Patients will be able to access information about their disorder and consult health care professionals who are experts in mental health via the Internet. Self-help communities will be established in cyberspace, with each site devoted to a single health-related topic such as anxiety or depression. These communities will provide "technical medical information, practical coping tips, emotional support, and online second opinions." The patient will be instructed to take more responsibility for his or her care and for us nurses, There are exciting times ahead!.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
~Florence Nightingale.
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