Maria Lazarte
Safety is a broad term used to explain conditions that are not likely to cause harm. In the healthcare domain, safety culture is a framework that ensures that the patients admitted at the facility are less prone to injuries and damage. An example of a breach in the safety culture is the mix-up of health records that give the wrong medication to a person because of an error in naming the files (Chegini et al., 2020). Since nurses are responsible for patient safety in the healthcare facility, they can use the latest technology such as electronic data storage to ensure each entry is accorded a unique identification number which completely eradicates confusion leading to better health outcomes and improved safety for the patients.
Healthcare informatics is a science, engineering, and technology field that cascades evidence-based practice to acquire, process, and store healthcare data for better patient management. The significant advantage of healthcare informatics is that it helps in reducing medical errors, maintaining data storage that contains well-arranged data without confusion, and providing confidentiality. Cascading the role of nurses with healthcare informatics makes it more effective and improves patient safety (Costa et al., 2018). The central part is to ensure that patient data is effectively stored using Electronic Health Records and retrieved effectively without confusion. Further, the role of nurses is to reduce errors or near errors in the healthcare field and ensure that patients are well treated. Since the use of electronic records reduces errors, the role of nurses in providing safety is achieved.
Nurses are supposed to closely monitor all patients to ensure that their health condition is not deteriorating. Record keeping on the patient could have been misplaced, and the next nurse on shift may not be aware of the special considerations to a particular patient (Hassan et al., 2019). However, by incorporating the new technology, the reports on the monitoring are created in the patient’s portfolio, and the next nurse on shift will be able to notice any special consideration that is meant to be accorded, and the healthcare outcome will be improved. The monitoring report will also be easily communicated to the relevant medical authorities to follow up and ensure that the people are safe.References
Chegini, Z., Janati, A., Afkhami, M., Behjat, M., & Shariful Islam, S. M. (2020). A comparative study on patient safety culture among emergency nurses in Tabriz’s public and private hospitals, Iran. Nursing Open, 7(3), 768-775. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fnop2.449
Costa, D. B. D., Ramos, D., Gabriel, C. S., & Bernardes, A. (2018). Patient safety culture: Assessment by nursing professionals. Texto & Contexto-Enfermagem, 27. https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-070720180002670016
Hassan, M. K., El Desouky, A. I., Elghamrawy, S. M., & Sarhan, A. M. (2019). Significant data challenges and opportunities in healthcare informatics and intelligent hospitals. In Security in smart cities: Models, applications, and challenges (pp. 3-26). Springer, Cham. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328747941_Big_Data_Challenges_and_Opportunities_in_Healthcare_Informatics_and_Smart_Hospitals
Inalvis Diaz
Health informatics and nursing informatics are very relevant in evolving health systems. New technology and initiatives are constantly being developed. These new innovations do not go without implications in the clinical setting, managerial setting, and the policy setting. It is crucial that all participants whether it is the nurse, manager, provider, politician, lobbyist, or President of the United States remain coordinated. Multidisciplinary unity is crucial to ensure public trust in our health systems and to provide safe and effective patient care. Nursing professionals have an ethical duty to ensure patient safety . Increasing demands on professionals in complex and fast -paced healthcare environments, however ,may lead them to cut corners or develop workarounds that deviate from accepted that expected practice protocols. Patient safety is a very important issue in health care . The key for organization is to invest in their users and choose wisely so that the technologies they are adopting will be interoperable and easily upgradable as technologies and safety practice evolve. On the other hand , The profession of nursing is viewed as both an art and science. Evolution of nursing includes evidence-based practice and rapid incorporation of advances in technology. Nursing informatics is a field that has widespread uses in healthcare, including specialty practice. Numerous roles have developed based on the growing education and applications of the nursing informatics knowledge base. Educational curriculum and certification are options for nurses to pursue in this exciting field.
References :
American Nurses Credentialing Center. (2012). Informatics nursing certification. Retrieved February 13, 2013 from www.nursecredentialing.org/NurseSpecialities/Informatics.aspx • American Medical Informatics Association. (2009). Nursing informatics. Retrieved February 25, 2013 from http://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/nursing-informatics

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