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1. Discuss the impact of informatics on nursing care.

Nursing Informatics has been defined by many great scholars who have
contributed a lot with the increased exploration and understanding in this field.
McCartney define Nursing Informatics as the 21st century science with great
potential for improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care
(McCartney, 2004). Nursing Informatics is a technology-focused, that is why it
makes sense that its definition, role, education, competencies, and the career path
of its practitioners changed significantly through the years. So, what are the
impacts of Informatics on the nursing care? First and foremost, since the goal of
Nursing Informatics is to improve health and to utilize technology, I will be
categorizing it by, first, how is the effect of improving the health to the patients.

Second, how is the effect of utilizing technology changes the way health care
is delivered. In terms of improving the health, NI helps the nurses or clinicians
have better understanding in clinical communication that are making it easier to
manage clinical work flows, improve coordination, and patient outcomes which
leads to better patient care and safety. NI also helps in clinical documentation,
since clinicians have more access to electronic health records, diagnostics,
treatment plans, etc.. For instance, they can record the roots of mistakes done in
an unexpected situation, so that they can learn from their mistakes and learn from
each other.
Moreover, utilizing technology can really deliver better patient care in terms
of safety, evidenced-based care and/or clinical documentation. In conclusion,
informatics has great impact on nursing care as they take a big role in the delivery
of care, building of knowledge, skills, and experience in the use of information
technology.

2. What surprised you or caught your attention after reading the above-mentioned
article?

In the given article, it was mentioned that the importance of Nursing


Informatics stems from the fact that, as estimated, nurses spend about 50% of
their time in the gathering, coordinated, and documenting of information
(Meadows, 2002). So, this caught my attention as it breaks what I thought about
being a nurse. For me, it basically means that, half of what you are actually doing
as a nurse is to gather data/information, coordinate, and documentation. And what
I thought about being a nurse is to take care of the patients or being by their side
24/7 to help or assist them in their medical needs. Though gathering,
coordinating, and documenting helps the patients, I haven’t thought of that kind
of help to the patients, that is why it surprised me.
Another thing that caught my attention was the fact that, Nursing Informatics
is one of the newest specialties in the nursing profession and is as well a
distinctive subspecialty of the interdisciplinary field of health informatics.
Nursing Informatics as a specialty is globally known that even here in the
Philippines, it was recently approved to be offered as a specialty. So, the fact that,
even our country has started in this kind of field, it can be seen that remarkable
advancement has been achieved, since Nursing Informatics is a technology-
focused.

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