There was a time not long ago, when physicians and nurses didn’t
have much else to offer patients other than personal attention, comfort,
compassion and concern for their ailments. Medical professionals were revered
and respected for that and for what little they could do in regard to
symptomatic treatment for incurable conditions. But because technology is
approaching not only therapeutic communications are given.
When we hear the word
technology, immediately comes to our mind that there is a transformation
occurring to a thing or livelihood. The general public believes that technology
will improve health care efficiency, quality, safety, and cost. However, few people
consider that these same technologies may also introduce errors and adverse
events.
We all
know that everything has its consequences,
the only difference is, it is how you handle on it.
Patient care technology has become increasingly complex,
transforming the way nursing care is conceptualized and delivered. Before a
wide-ranging application of technology, nurses relied heavily on their senses
of sight, touch, smell, and hearing to monitor patient status and to detect
changes. Over time, the nurses’ unaided senses were replaced with technology
designed to detect physical changes in patient conditions.
One
of the important roles of the nurse is to be a patient advocate and to protect
the interests of patients when the patients themselves cannot because of
illness or inadequate health knowledge. The use of information
and communication technology in nursing, is revolutionizing the way
nurses interact with patients, deliver care and communicate with
colleagues.
Health care is one
of the most pressing challenges facing our nation. Almost any discussion
related to improving healthcare, whether it implicates reducing costs or
improving patient safety and satisfaction, usually has technology as a core
Technology will not solve the problem, but used
appropriately will contribute to the transformation of healthcare, as it has in
many other industries. With the progression of health care and technology
over the last decade, example is the electronic medical record (EMR), we
have seen many benefits to patient care including improvements in
documentation, better legibility of chart notes and prescriptions, improvements
in awareness of drug interactions, more attention to preventive health care and
improved tracking of test results, and scheduling of follow up visits and
future testing, to name a few.
While
technology has the potential to improve care, it is not without risks.
Technology has been described as both part of the problem and part of the
solution for safer health care, and some observers warned of the introduction
of yet-to-be errors after the adoption of new technologies. For example, nurses
and other health care providers can be so focused on data from monitors that
they fail to detect potentially important subtle changes in clinical status.
Problems may emerge based on the sheer volume of new devices, the complexity of
the devices, the poor interface between multiple technologies at the bedside,
and the haphazard introduction of new devices at the bedside. Despite the
billions of dollars spent each year on an ever-increasing array of medical
devices and equipment, the nursing profession has paid little attention to the
implementation of technology and its integration with other aspects of the
health care environment.
At the end of this discussion:
- you will realized how nursing informatics are important.
- nurses common error turn to smoothly precise.
- will determine what are the importance of nursing informatics
References:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2686/
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