modern world comprising of dynamic health systems

In today’s current world of dynamic health systems

Information and technical skills are important in nursing and education activities. It is critical to prioritize patients’ healthcare. As a result, it is critical to assess the role of nurses while emphasizing the importance of contemporary information technology and educational programs. The educational programs provide nurses with a variety of skills and technical knowledge to improve healthcare. The advancement of technology and nursing informatics is thought to promote improved healthcare (Karsh, Weinger, Abbott & Wears, 2010). In the health industry, technology has led to advancements in systems, networks, and the internet. With the remarkable rise in the development of information age, nurses have been in a position to receive IT training. These trainings are essential in the healthcare sector since it equips nurses with information skills.

Due to the rise in technology and informatics in the health sector

Nurses have been empowered, and quality of healthcare has increased. Many aspects of computer science, e-learning, electronic patient records have been added to information technology. These skills have helped to improve health sector since nurses are exposed to many programs. Computer skills have aided in retrieving patients’ demographic data and documentation of patients’ information for better health care records. Also, informatics knowledge and informatics skills enable nursing data to be used in improving patient care (Karsh et al. 2010). Nevertheless, it has allowed the interpretation and flow of healthcare information within an organization. Clinical systems have been at a position to process information flow charts and develop their database structures. Information skills have led to these achievements and have facilitated clinical care, research, and education. Information and technological skills have promoted better healthcare. Better health care has been achieved by associating the collection of patients’ information with medical diagnostic systems that rely on the information technology to meet these goals.

Section 2

Nurses have played important roles over the years in putting into practice their information and technological skills. The methods have helped escalate the health sector and improved healthcare services. Patients are in a position to receiving more quality health services and outcomes. Their medical data can now be analyzed and kept safely for future reference. All the better patient services are on the courtesy of improved information and technological skills put in practice by nurses (Wears et al. 2010). Nursing informatics have integrated nurses’ specialty in computer science and intelligence sciences. Therefore, nurses have been in a position to manage and communicate information, data, wisdom and knowledge by putting them in practice. The rapid technological advancements further improve nurse’s role in the provision of quality healthcare. Nurses uphold patient safety and security by not exposing their medical information to non-authorized people. Patient privacy has been attained by nurses to achieve the goal of transforming patient’s data into useful knowledge. Nurses have been able to improve the patient’s care provision by integrating informatics with practices that are evidence-based.

Patients’ safety and outcome have been prioritized by nurses

To achieve patient safety, nurses have applied technology to knowledge, therefore, helping them identify potential problems at early stages (Abbot, 2010). For example, use of electronic documentation in identifying changes that may occur in patient status can be achieved quickly due to the readily available information. Nurses can access the vital trending patient signs and intemperate them with the help of computer analysis. With the interpretations, patients can be quickly attended to regarding what they are likely to be suffering. The vital signs enable a nurse to use their technical knowledge to formalize appropriate action plan. Nurses further play a significant role in taking patients records in their notes template. The method assists in reducing daily workload. Use of template models reminds nurses of the relevant information required in patient care documentation. These documentations help with patient’s safety and outcome in giving treatments.

Section 3

Technology has played a significant role in the healthcare sector. It has improved healthcare provisions and how patients are handled. Over the years, nurses have put technology into practice in decision making. Some patients undergo complicated health problems. But with the help of technological advancements, nurses have been able to come to appropriate decisions. It can be reasoned that technology has helped come up with computerized systems that help in decision support (Davis & Kimble, 2011). Nurses have used technological help in clinical judgment. These technologically standardized approaches to making decisions have removed the holistic and individualized care plan practices. Technology only aid in decision making, they provide guidance and advice on the best actions to be taken. Also, it has helped nurses in decision-making. For example, nurses can design a reminder system to assist with recalls of patients screening procedures. It gives them the appropriate decision on time when the process is more applicable. By keying relevant disease data in computer software’s, nurses have attained computer decisions on disease management. These decisions are in long-term management conditions such as heart diseases, asthma, and diabetes.

Ulcers are a common disease; nurses have used the technological information to make decisions on how to approach the disease

Technical equipment and machines have been put in place by nurses to study the disease (Kimble, 2010). The computers make decisions whether improvements are occurring in ulcer patients. The devices can indicate a reducing number of pressure ulcers thus develops the appropriate decision. Nurses can further use the equipment to monitor the safety of healthcare systems and make decisions on individual’s work.

Section 4

The quality and integrity of data that are entered into a database may influence the quality of patient care. For better healthcare standards, the quality and completeness of data must be prioritized. Electronic documentation tools in healthcare facilities offer many features. The features are designed to improve both the integrity and quality of medical documentation. These documentations enhance communication between health care providers. Patients’ data that are documented in the health systems should be valid, accurate, trustworthy, timely and complete. These features of patient data record influence the quality of patient care. Achieving quality patient care requires some rules and regulations that must be put in place to address documentation quality. The guidelines primarily address documentation auditing and authorship principles. In the case of low quality and integrity of data documentation, could compromise patient care, quality reporting, and care coordination (Majid, Luyt, Zhang, Theng, Chang & Mokhtar, 2011). Compromise on patient care documentation is considered fraud and abuse according to patient’s healthcare rights. Documentation Integrity requires an accuracy and the completion of the health record.

In conclusion, literature encompasses patient’s identification, amendments and record corrections for documentation validity. Unless these tools are well used, however, the quality of the data may be considered not genuine. Patients’ records would reflect an inaccurate outcome in case safeguards are not put in place. Health care provider must understand that only default patient data should be reviewed (Chang, 2011). Finally, the quality and integrity of patient’s data entered in healthcare database influence the quality of patient care. For a quality patient care, there is the need for accuracy in data pertaining every patient. With verification of the data, appropriate medical measures can be administered to the given patient. Fault data records can affect medical assignments to a given patient. These can further complicate health conditions of a patient.

References

Davis, A. H., & Kimble, L. P. (2011). The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Journal of Nursing Education, 50(11), 605.

Karsh, B. T., Weinger, M. B., Abbott, P. A., & Wears, R. L. (2010). Health information technology: fallacies and sober realities. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17(6), 617-623.

Majid, S., Foo, S., Luyt, B., Zhang, X., Theng, Y. L., Chang, Y. K., & Mokhtar, I. A. (2011). Adopting evidence-based practice in clinical decision making: nurses’ perceptions, knowledge, and barriers.