Nursing Informatics in Health Care

 
Nursing Informatics in Healthcare Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation

Nursing Informatics in Healthcare Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist What is nursing informatics? Nursing informatics refers to the specialty that links analytical science, information technology, and nursing science to manage, define, communicate, and identify data, wisdom, knowledge, and information in the practice of nursing (RegisteredNursing.org, 2021). What is the role of the nurse informaticist? Nurse informaticists integrate the technology with the practice of nursing and play the following roles (Health Information and Management Systems Society, 2019):
They incorporate technology, information, and nursing sciences to develop and maintain electronic medical systems and data that support the nursing practice and improve the outcomes of patient care.
Nurse informaticists use technology and data to monitor electronic systems, patient care, and the daily operations of a health organization.
These specialists choose and test new healthcare devices that can help nurses to improve their services.
They reduce operating costs and medical errors.
Nurse informaticists improve clinical procedures, protocols, processes, and policies by using technology.
They align the best nursing practices with patient care and clinical workflows.
These experts provide training to health professionals on the most effective ways of using technology to improve medical services.
Nurse informaticists enhance the continuity of patient care and effective treatment.
They perform research and disseminate relevant knowledge to health professionals so that they can incorporate evidence-based data in their practice.
Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations
What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
Healthcare organizations with nurse informaticists have significantly benefited through the improvement of their effectiveness in the provision of medical services. One good example of a health institution that was transformed by nursing informatics positively in 2018 is the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System, which is in Tyler, Texas. Specifically, its organ transplant conversion rate increased by 88% and the effectiveness rate by 81%. The hospital won the Life Champion Partner Gold Award (Nelson & Parker, 2019). Indeed, it implemented an electronic health record (EHR) that enables caregivers to save around 30 minutes when inputting patient information and make referrals. Another example is Carolinas Healthcare that implemented EHR in 2016. After two years, the system helped the hospital save $60,000 annually on operating costs (Davis, 2017). How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team? Nurse informaticists interact with the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team in various ways. First, they meet during the development and implementation of the EHR or other technologies that a health organization wants to use. Nurse informaticists gather users’ requirements to ensure that the electronic system facilitates the effectiveness and efficiency of medical services. Second, the...