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Nursing Informatics

Nursing informatics equates to nurses using computers in health care. In Nursing Informatics: An Evolving Specialty, registered nurse and author Ginny Meadows (2002) discusses computers have more than impacted nursing, they have evolved new kinds of nurses.

The article discusses how computers and computer information systems employed in heath care have enabled health care providers to improve patient safety, reduce variability of care, and increase staff efficiency (Meadows 2002). When computer information systems were first introduced into health care, many nurses struggled to keep up with the learning curve. As Meadows (2002) explains, ômany informatics nurses started working in information systems with little or no specific informatics education, but learned æon the jobÆö (301). As health care providers and nurses began to rely more heavily on computers, nurses began to evolve competencies in informatics. Health care providers and nurses continue to utilize informatics as a means of reducing medication errors, providing clinical decision support, and as a way to help combat the growing nursing shortage in light of increased on-the-job demands.

The demands for cost-savings and improved efficiencies in health care, in addition to the nursing shortage and graying of the work force, created greater reliance on computer information systems to deliver quality health care efficiently. Over the past ten years, nurses have begun to evolve into informatics nurses. As defined by the American Nurses Association (ANA), nursing informatics ôsupports the nursing process by helping to integrate the data, information, and knowledge required for clinical decision makingö (Meadows 2002, 300). Nurses have long been involved in computer information systems, as their expertise and input were often solicited during the design and implementation of systems.

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