Nursing informatics: A road for progression

Nursing informatics is a combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science, designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge to support nursing practice, education, research, and administration (Graves & Corcoran, 1989).

As time goes by many development happened in our country. A decade ago one problem that we faced is how to make life easier. In terms of health, an example was the cancer. Before when we hear the word cancer, we lose hope immediately because we knew that there is no cure for this sickness. The use of information technology has perpetuated this approach to clinical decision making through various applications.

The astonishing collection of information available electronically is one such application. The development of digital nursing languages and nomenclatures are another important supportive application. The ability to use computers for every stage of the research process, both quantitative and qualitative is another key application. Modern health care administration is strongly focused on the incorporation of all three of these developments to shape the activities, directive, and focus of contemporary nursing.

The use of technology in nursing is not new, in fact nurses have become proficient in utilizing and adapting complex technology into caring nursing practice for decades, at least since the time of Florence Nightingale in the United Kingdom and even earlier, when Jeanne Mance (1606-1673) founded the first hospital in Montreal, Canada in 1642. Various forms of machinery such as ventilators and physiological monitors were first used in intensive and critical care settings, and are now currently used in adapted form in less acute areas, even in home care. Nursing has evolved significantly over the past few decades, with many of the changes being driven by advances in information and communication technology (ICT). Indisputable, there are lots of advantages that a technology helps us. 

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 Improved workload functional - The need for high-quality healthcare implies that accurate and timely information should be of primary importance.

     
Enhanced decision making - Decision support modules also provide prompts and reminders, and guides to disease linkages between signs or symptoms, etiologies or related factors and patient populations. Right clinical decisions need right information, such as accessing medical resources online and identifying the right information that is critical in decision making.

     
Improved drug administration - formation systems enable electronically prescribed drugs to become more understandable, as it is less likely that you can administer wrong drugs to patients. By using patient-charting modules, the patient's vital signs, admission and nursing assessments, care plan and nursing notes can be entered into the system and then stored in a central repository that you can retrieve when needed for drug administration.

   
Clinical data integration - Patient records have become more readable and accurate with the application of nursing information systems, which have ensured improvement of standards of keeping records.

 People who work in nursing informatics aim to develop systems that are both effective and user-friendly. Nurses may not be inclined to use a system that is too complicated, cumbersome, or takes time away from their first priority, which is patient care. Nursing informaticists also must make sure new systems integrate seamlessly with existing hospital systems and the routine workflow of the nursing process.