Nursing Informatic Analysis

1 CURRENT USES OF IMFORMATICS APPLICATION IN HEALTHCARE
This concept was taken from module 1" foundations of nursing informatics", sub topic 2" roles and functions of nurse informatics".
The word informatics is derived from a French word "informatique" meaning computer science. It can be defined as computer science plus information science.
It is the application of computer and information science in the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in any discipline or organization.
Nursing informatics as defined by staggers and Bagley-Thompson 2002 "facilitates the integration of data, information and knowledge to support clients, nurses and other providers in their decision making in all roles ad settings".
Nursing informatics

Personally I have come to understand that in my line of practice most of this applications have been used. This applications have been used to promote the services that we render to our patients. Patients are been admitted, discharged and transferred from one facility to another with the use of this applications. Personally, in my facility whenever any patient is been discharged you only need to key into the system and you will see the order and from there the order is followed.
Informatics application have been used for documentation in the healthcare facility. Whenever patient's vital signs are checked, the measures are entered into the system. All drugs that are administered to the patient are entered into the system and all procedures carried out on a patient are documented like wound dressing, catheterization, oral care, bed bathing etc.
I have also been opportune to see the accounts department and how they operate. Patients are been billed according to services that is recorded that was rendered to them. For instance when a patient is sent for investigations, the cost of each is recorded and this is seen by the accounts department for which the total cost for the patient is

All this are some of the uses of informatics applications.
SIGNIFICANCE TO THE NURSING PROFESSION: this concept is important as it have helped to advance the profession and move the profession from paper age to computer age. With the use of this applications nurses have been able to improve in the care they render to their patients. They have been able to say time spent on carrying out task in the ward thereby giving them more room to focus on the care of their patients.
IMPORTANCE TO THE WORLD: this concept is important as it helps generally in improving the life of the population. When proper care is rendered to patients it helps in reducing the number of sick individuals in the nation. With health awareness made possible through the media people are now more involved in preventive precautions to aid good health.
RECENT RESEARCH:
In a study carried out by American Nurses Association it was showed that “Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information and knowledge to support patients, nurses and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes and information