Nursing Informatics Finals

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Florence Nightingale once said, “Decision making must be based upon the use of accurate data”. For me, it is definitely true, because information technology did a very big help through computers. Many hospitals from other country preferred to use computers to improve patient’s care, to conduct research by analyzing patient trends, variability in practice and outcomes of care. The uses of high-technologies nowadays are not impossible but the reality. It doesn’t mean just for fun, because as of now, computer plays a very big help especially in the nursing and health fields. Doctors and nurses don’t only depend on the computers’ abilities, but they decide with the computers’ ideas. The role of the computers in our profession is to give suggestions/ideas to the health practitioner in which the health practitioner is the one responsible to give what he/she thinks is the best intervention to perform to improve the patient’s health status with the help of the computer. So, in short the computer plays a guiding role in collecting accurate datas leading to have possible accurate outcomes.

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

A Clinical Decision Support System(CDSS) has been coined as an “active knowledge systems, which use two or more items of patient's data to generate case-specific advice."

This is an example of a CDSS. CDSS by the meaning itself supports very much in the clinical field. It gives assistance to clinicians in rendering their care to their patients by giving suggestions based on their diagnoses. It helps them to decide and choose the right choice on what action or actions they should perform.

CDSS is also supported by Diagnosis Decision Support Systems or DDSS, in which it take all the patient's data including those that are related on their health status. For me, both are really helpful especially to those physicians in dealing with their patients. By using these, patients can assure that the hospital that is taking all the responsibilities just to cure them can really give them the assurance that there are big chances that they can be treated in their sickness.

Nowadays, many technologies have been made. I am so grateful that CDSS and DDSS belonged to those technologies. I admit that some technologies have bad influences to people, but only some. Because I do admit that CDSS and DDSS gives really BIG help when speaking about our HEALTH, it does not only give clinician the BEST way of dealing with patients but it also give them the RIGHT choices before acting.

"It is the BEST, because it gives all the clinicians the opportunities to practice their professions very well and also to enhance more their knowledge about their fields."

A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a palmtop computer, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet. A PDA has an electronic visual display, enabling it to include a web browser, but some newer models also have audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones or portable media players. Many PDAs can access the Internet, intranets or extranets via Wi-Fi or Wireless Wide Area Networks. Many PDAs employ touchscreen technology.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. In 1996, Nokia introduced the first mobile phone with full PDA functionality, the 9000 Communicator, which grew to become the world's best-selling PDA. The Communicator spawned a new category of mobile phones: the smartphone. Today, the vast majority of all PDAs are smartphones. Over 150 million smartphones are sold each year, while "stand-alone" PDAs without phone functionality sell only about 3 million units per year. Popular smartphone brands include HTC, Apple, Palm, Nokia N-Series, and RIM BlackBerry.

nursing

Florence Nightingale, in her Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, defined nursing as having “charge of the personal health of somebody … and what nursing has to do … is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.” The philosophy has been restated and refined since 1859, but the essence is the same. In the words of nursing theorist Virginia Henderson, nurses help people, sick or well, to do those things needed for health or a peaceful death that people would do on their own if they had the strength, will, or knowledge. The most current definition that reflects the evolution of professional nursing is from the 2003 edition of ANA’s Nursing’s Social Policy Statement:

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

The human response…

1. What defines nursing and sets it apart from other health care professions, particularly medicine with which it has long been considered part and parcel? It is nurses’ focus – in theory and practice – on the response of the individual and the family to actual or potential health problems. Nurses are educated to be attuned to the whole person, not just the unique presenting health problem. While a medical diagnosis of an illness may be fairly circumscribed, the human response to a health problem may be much more fluid and variable and may have a great effect on the individual’s ability to overcome the initial medical problem. It is often said that physicians cure, and nurses care. In what some describe as a blend of physiology and psychology, nurses build on their understanding of the disease and illness process to promote the restoration and maintenance of health in their clients.

Nurses’ broad-based education and holistic focus positions them as the logical network of providers on which to build a true health care system for the future. An acknowledged realization that individuals have considerable responsibility for their personal health has driven an increasing recognition that there is a professional group, whose focus is education and practice, that can facilitate individuals efforts to reach their fullest health potential. This profession is that of registered nurses.