¶ … computer science, information science, and nursing science designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge to support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care"
INTRO SLIDE#2
Why Nurses Need To Understand Nursing Informatics
"track patient outcomes"
"find data trends"
"assess workload and interventions"
"develop technologies, such as apps, to help health care workers virtually monitor and stay in touch with patients"
"improve workflows"
"help patients deal with their diseases"
(McGonigle Hunter et al. 2014, 324)
(Insert Slide#1 Organizational structure and model of Nightingale Home Care, Inc.)
(Insert Slide#2 Organization chart for Nightingale Home Care Inc.)
SLIDE#3
PART ONE
Role of Informatics Nurse at Nightingale Home Care, Inc.
Informatics centralizes the available data for any given patient
All information collected and stored on a central computer
Reduces need to take down same information twice
Reduces chance of error when that information is recorded multiple times
SLIDE#3
PART TWO
How Does Nightingale's Structure Influence Informatics?
Looking at the chart for Nightingale, you will see that ADMISSIONS and actual NURSING are in different organizational branches.
How do they communicate with each other?
Through IT and the use of standardized nursing terminology (SNT).
SLIDE#4
How Does Nightingale's Organizational Model Influence Informatics?
Hospital nursing informatics has a centralized location
... Home health care nursing informatics is de-centralized:
Nurses need to supply all the data or there won't be any!
Hospital nursing informatics emphasizes communication with doctors
... Home health nursing informatics emphasizes communication with patient:
Facilitating patient communication / monitoring patient remotely
SLIDE# 5 PART ONE
The Informatics Nurse and the IT Department
Nurses are trained to deal with patients -- not computer systems
The essence of informatics: put patient data into a centralized computer system
This requires training for nurses to gather and enter relevant data
Crucial for IT: the use of Standardized Nursing Terminologies (SNTs)
SLSLIDE#5 PART TWO
What is a Standardized Nursing Terminology (SNT)?
-- Informatics relies on data: SNT is how nurses record the data on a daily basis
-- The use of the same vocabulary to describe the same things every time.
-- Consistency and ease of use for data analysis
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