Article 1 (from e-journal portal UKM) : Nurses and Informatics

We are so depending on information system in our daily life. It plays an important role in our daily life nowadays. We are living more easy and systematic because of the existence of information system. Why I say so? Banks, stock market, airline industry, factories, stores, schools and even in health industry are all using and depending on information system in order to function well, easy and systematically. Nurses are increasingly using information systems to assist them to fulfill this role in clinical practice, administration, research, and education.

In this article, it explains what is nursing first then it explains what informatics is. After that, it did explain the definitions of health informatics, medical informatics, and nursing informatics and how to differentiate among them. Health informatics has become the umbrella term encompassing medical, nursing, dental, and pharmacy informatics among others. Health informatics focuses attention on the recipient of care rather than on the discipline of the caregiver. It explains the nursing’s early role in medical informatics. The nurse’s early role in medical informatics was that of a consumer. It did explain how the nursing informatics develops and the impact of nursing informatics on nursing.

Nursing informatics has moved beyond merely the use of computers and is increasingly referring to the impact of information and information management on the discipline of nursing. Nurses form the largest group of health care professionals in any setting to have a health information system. When providing patient care, nurses make use of information management more often than any other group of health care professionals. The nursing profession is recognizing the potential of informatics to improve nursing practice and the quality of patient care.

After reading this article, I get more clear idea about nursing informatics. Nowadays, nurses are so relying on nursing informatics which are really saving much of nurses time and reduce the mistake that made by nurses such as during giving medications.