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About
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Information
technology provides nurses with more and better information. Better information
improves decision making, enhances resource allocation and refines services.
IT creates a need for additional knowledge and specialization in nursing
practice. The specialty is nursing informatics. Nursing Informatics is the
study of information technology as it applies to the profession of nursing.
The discipline's purpose is to provide both a theoretical and an applied
framework for data and information acquisition, organization and utilization
in all arenas of nursing practice.
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future of the nursing profession is tightly bound to the future of informatics |
The purpose indicates
that nursing informatics has a broad area of influence and it impacts on
nursing practice, service, education and research. The future of the profession
is tightly bound to the future of informatics. The nurse of today and tomorrow
must have a good knowledge base in computer technology to function in this
information rich health care environment. The use of computers has grown
to include discussion forums, on-line research searches and electronic networking
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The parameters of the
nursing process, identification of nursing diagnoses, the nursing minimum
data set and validation of nursing intervention effectiveness and efficiency
symbolize some of Nursing's efforts in the informatics discipline. Federal
and State regulations for computerized patient records, accreditation standards
from JCAHO and third party reimbursement requirements exemplify the impact
of forces outside the profession.
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