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The power of nursing informatics in streamlining patient data
At the Australian College of Nursing's recent National Nursing Forum, assistant director of clinical services at Cairns Day Surgery, Sharon Downman, spoke about nursing informatics and why it is important to nurses.
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Thank you for this topic/article. Nursing Informatics (NI) is certainly upon us more than ever. A few comments I had are as follows: What does this mean? “develop prioritised actions to ensure all nurses have the skills and knowledge to undertake nursing informatics activities at a range of levels,”
Nurses are a wealth of information. If and when nurses undertake NI activities, they will be helping (by using/applying this knowledge) an NI specialist analyse information requirements; design, implement and evaluate information systems and data structures that support nursing; and applying computer technologies for nursing (ANA Council on Computer Applications in Nursing. Congress of Nursing Practice unpublished report, 1992).
“Healthcare is an information intensive environment and data helps us at our bedside to put evidence-based care in the hands of nurses at the point of care.” Rather, healthcare is a data rich environment and the information we are able to glean from it (information processing) reinforces and provides evidence-based care in the hands of nurses.
Just as nursing continues to evolve, so will the role of NI.