In our organization, we have a separate department of informatics. To instill in
In our organization, we have a separate department of informatics. To instill information technology in the healthcare field productively, numerous doctors and nurses are made part of the department because it’s the physicians, and other healthcare workers who will be using these software’s in the hospital and clinics. They know more about the kind of software the healthcare people want to work with which will motivate them to use IT in the hospital and clinics. Our informatics is supervised by the head of the hospice department, who is a senior consultant, and under him a group of nurses working as nurse informatics, who work with IT people to formulate staff-friendly software and develop different modules within the EPIC and MyChart for OPDs (Outpatient Departments), admissions and discharges, PACS (Post-Acute Care), etc. The nurse gets training from the IT staff and then they are posted to different departments and train these modules to the staff working there and manage the whole technical issues present in their departments (Snipes, 2016). The evolution of nursing informatics has been a momentous advancement regarding the safety of patients in the healthcare environment. According to McGonigle & Mastrian (2017), The American Nurses Association (ANA) describes nursing informatics as a specialty that incorporates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom within the nursing practice (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). With the direct utilization of informatics, the healthcare environment has converted completely into a technological system where the patient’s data is collected and mainstreamed for healthcare professionals to obtain patient data concurrently. Healthcare professionals can gain a perspective of the patient’s electronic healthcare records and work collectively to provide a greater quality of patient care and safety outcomes. (Ny et al., 2018). Not all healthcare staff use this software, mainly those who are the elder ones who don’t know how to use the computers, so they deny using the new initiatives and demotivate others. Other staff give the reason that the software is not working properly, or server issues are there every time. To defend this, we should provide software that is fully functional and has no server issues. The second thing is to motivate the staff to use electronic health records (EMRs) to conduct opportunities by providing them with proper training, certificates, incentives, and upgrades. Information technology enhances various conditions of healthcare nurses to involve significant communication of patient medical information involving clinicians, expeditious access to policy and protocol, when necessary, comfort in assembling data, and even giving notice when a task has not been performed. Acquiring an integrated system in one spot allows professional nurses and leaders to examine any issues or problems in the current practice setting and ways to improve. (Laureate Education, 2018). The best strategy to improve the relationship between technology specialists and other healthcare staff is to assign a person from the clinical staff only as an informatics specialist; because getting a person from their group only will help other staff to express their feelings and concerns about the usage of computers, what are the difficulties they are facing, they feel free to speak to them because they are telling to a person who is a part of them only and they know that he or she will work in favor of them only by focusing on the needs of the staffs and patients so that the best and efficient health care services can be provided to the patient’s (Mosier & Englebright, 2019). References: Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). Health Informatics and Population Health: Trends in Population Health (Video file). Baltimore, MD: Author. Mosier, S., Roberts, W. D., & Englebright, J. (2019). A Systems-Level Method for Developing Nursing Informatics Solutions: JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 49(11), 543-548. Ng, Y. C., Alexander, S., & Frith, K. H. (2018). Integration of Mobile Health Applications in Health Information Technology InitiativesLinks to an external site.Links to an external site.: Expanding Opportunities for Nurse Participation in Population Health. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 36(5), 209-213. Sipes, C. (2016). Project management: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 225, 252- 256.