NR 512 Week 1 Discussion: Integration of
Nursing Informatics Skills & Competencies
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Week 1: Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
Reflect on your own practice. Discuss how informatics is used in your practice. What is your
primary area where you would use informatics? From completing the Pre-TANIC TIGER
assessment for this week, what do you plan to achieve in this course? How did you feel your
competency level was compared to the assessment?
According to The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, nursing informatics is
defined as "a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to
manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice." (Lee, 2014).
Back in the days, it was just paper data, documentations that was driving nurses to make mistakes at the
moment of reading orders. The paper charts leave a LOT OF ROOM for medical errors. When I was
doing my clinical in this setting, they had the physical chart; I found it really challenging to read the
orders, the nursing notes and so on. As a register Nurse I used informatics all the time, to read my new
orders, to review the patient’s charts, to reach medical history, currents treatments and so on, I don’t
see myself without it. Electronic Medical Records allows us to collect this data and share it between the
patient collaborative care team such as physicians, pharmacy, and laboratory to be able to provide safe
and effective care to each patient (Thede, 2012). Patient information such as weight, medication history,
medical history, vitals, current treatments, and results can all be kept within the electronic medical
record making it easy and effective to communicate with the care team and follow the patient’s plan of
care (Thede, 2012). By using the EMR, I’m able to provide education to my patients, to print visual
information that is specific to the patient’s condition. Electronic health records improve the quality of
patient care and reduce errors (Petrides, Bixho, Goonan, Bates, Shaykevich, Lipsitz, & Melanson, 2017).
As well the EMR help to prevent us to do a medical error due to the alerts that pop out, driving us to give
safe care, high quality and cost effective patient care. With the EMR almost everything from different
departments can all be found on one system so that whoever is providing care can have easy access to
the information. Without the use of technology, provider communication may not be as effective or
efficient. One that I love is the translator IPad we have at the hospital, where we are able to use it, there
are many different language, and the camera is incorporated so it is more comfortable to translate.
References
Lee, A. (2014). The Role of Informatics in Nursing. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! , 12(4), 55.
doi:10.1097/01.nme.0000450294.60987.00
Petrides, A. K., Bixho, I., Goonan, E. M., Bates, D. W., Shaykevich, S., Lipsitz, S. R., & Melanson, S. F.
(2017). The benefits and challenges of an interfaced electronic health record and laboratory information
system: Effects on laboratory processes. Archives Of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 141(3), 410-417.
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Nursing Informatics Skills & Competencies
(+Responses)
Week 1: Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
Reflect on your own practice. Discuss how informatics is used in your practice. What is your
primary area where you would use informatics? From completing the Pre-TANIC TIGER
assessment for this week, what do you plan to achieve in this course? How did you feel your
competency level was compared to the assessment?
According to The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, nursing informatics is
defined as "a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to
manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice." (Lee, 2014).
Back in the days, it was just paper data, documentations that was driving nurses to make mistakes at the
moment of reading orders. The paper charts leave a LOT OF ROOM for medical errors. When I was
doing my clinical in this setting, they had the physical chart; I found it really challenging to read the
orders, the nursing notes and so on. As a register Nurse I used informatics all the time, to read my new
orders, to review the patient’s charts, to reach medical history, currents treatments and so on, I don’t
see myself without it. Electronic Medical Records allows us to collect this data and share it between the
patient collaborative care team such as physicians, pharmacy, and laboratory to be able to provide safe
and effective care to each patient (Thede, 2012). Patient information such as weight, medication history,
medical history, vitals, current treatments, and results can all be kept within the electronic medical
record making it easy and effective to communicate with the care team and follow the patient’s plan of
care (Thede, 2012). By using the EMR, I’m able to provide education to my patients, to print visual
information that is specific to the patient’s condition. Electronic health records improve the quality of
patient care and reduce errors (Petrides, Bixho, Goonan, Bates, Shaykevich, Lipsitz, & Melanson, 2017).
As well the EMR help to prevent us to do a medical error due to the alerts that pop out, driving us to give
safe care, high quality and cost effective patient care. With the EMR almost everything from different
departments can all be found on one system so that whoever is providing care can have easy access to
the information. Without the use of technology, provider communication may not be as effective or
efficient. One that I love is the translator IPad we have at the hospital, where we are able to use it, there
are many different language, and the camera is incorporated so it is more comfortable to translate.
References
Lee, A. (2014). The Role of Informatics in Nursing. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! , 12(4), 55.
doi:10.1097/01.nme.0000450294.60987.00
Petrides, A. K., Bixho, I., Goonan, E. M., Bates, D. W., Shaykevich, S., Lipsitz, S. R., & Melanson, S. F.
(2017). The benefits and challenges of an interfaced electronic health record and laboratory information
system: Effects on laboratory processes. Archives Of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 141(3), 410-417.
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