The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies
Assignment: The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies
In the Discussion for this module, you considered the interaction of nurse informaticists with other specialists to ensure successful care. How is that success determined?
Patient outcomes and the fulfillment of care goals is one of the major ways that healthcare success is measured. Measuring patient outcomes results in the generation of data that can be used to improve results. Nursing informatics can have a significant part in this process and can help to improve outcomes by improving processes, identifying at-risk patients, and enhancing efficiency.
To Prepare:
Review the concepts of technology application as presented in the Resources.
Reflect on how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence may help fortify nursing informatics as a specialty by leading to increased impact on patient outcomes or patient care efficiencies.
The Assignment: (4-5 pages not including the title and reference page)
In a 4- to 5-page project proposal written to the leadership of your healthcare organization, propose a nursing informatics project for your organization that you advocate to improve patient outcomes or patient-care efficiency. Your project proposal should include the following:
Describe the project you propose.
Identify the stakeholders impacted by this project.
Explain the patient outcome(s) or patient-care efficiencies this project is aimed at improving and explain how this improvement would occur. Be specific and provide examples.
Identify the technologies required to implement this project and explain why.
Identify the project team (by roles) and explain how you would incorporate the nurse informaticist in the project team.
Use APA format and include a title page and reference page.
Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.
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The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies
Nursing informatics is fast developing into a vital component of contemporary healthcare, bearing its impacts in different aspects of patient outcomes. Recent technological breakthroughs in healthcare, ranging from artificial intelligence to real-time location systems, have triggered a positive transformation of healthcare globally. These advancements have reengineered healthcare and saved many lives as it pertains to biomedicine, information processing and retention, and pharmaceuticals, among other multiple aspects of healthcare. Healthcare professionals have been required to match the new technological developments as they foster the needed efficiency in the delivery of healthcare services. While there is a wide array of emerging technologies that can revitalize different aspects of healthcare, this analysis will focus on electronic health record (EHR) systems as they pertain to the impacts of nursing informatics on patient outcomes and patient care efficiencies. The advancements in EHR have changed the current architecture of healthcare and are poised to change its tenets and processes, thereby leading to success in patient outcomes.
Description of the Project
This project proposes the implementation of EHRs in healthcare facilities to deliver the demanded success in patient outcomes. EHRs are considered one of the most important inventions in contemporary healthcare. EHRs are patients' paper charts in a digital version. EHRs are characterized by instantaneous delivery of information to securely authorized users. These systems are also real-time and patient-centered, making them some of the most demanded technologies currently. EHRs can be employed to explore a broader view of patient care besides the stipulated collection of standard clinical data. EHRs can also automate and streamline provider workflow and allow access to evidence-based tools that professionals can employ to make appropriate decisions about patients. EHRs can contain patients' medical history prospects, including laboratory and test results, radiology images, allergies, immunization dates, treatment plans, medications, and diagnoses. Bearing their impacts on every aspect of patient care, EHRs are a significant upgrade from the traditional patient charts.
EHRs are characterized by other auxiliary features that are posed to better healthcare service delivery if implemented appropriately. One such auxiliary feature is that the systems allow authorized individuals to create information in a digital format that eases sharing across more than one department or even beyond one healthcare facility (Mosier, Roberts, & Englebright, 2019). This comes at a time when integration of healthcare services is becoming vital. Healthcare facilities and their professionals are demanding more integration platforms, something that EHRs provide in abundance. Communication integration with other stakeholders such as clinics, emergency facilities, pharmacies, medical imaging facilities specialists, and laboratories expands healthcare services' scope with little investment into materials. As an organization whose intent is to expand its scope, achieve more patient care success, and deliver the best outcomes, implementing a futuristic EHRs must remain a priority.
Stakeholders Affected by the Project
The implementation of EHRs affects multiple stakeholders within the vicinity of the healthcare facility. The primary stakeholders affected by this project are the facility's board. Implementing an organizational-wide project requires the inputs of the board right from formulation to approval. Overall, the success or failure of a healthcare facility is pegged on the performance of the board and its members (Ng, Alexander, & Frith, 2018). The board will achieve more success, accord the hospital more benefits, and deliver according to the mandate of healthcare facilities, which is to deliver the best possible outcomes. The other category of stakeholders who the project will impact is the departmental heads. The formulation and implementation of EHRs are organizational-wide prospects. As such, each head of the department will be engaged in understanding and contributing to the project's prospects. The departmental leaders are also vital to this project as they are poised to steer the changes within their departments.
Healthcare professionals in the functional units are the other category of stakeholders who are likely to be impacted by the EHRs project. Healthcare professionals that include physicians, nurses, clinical officers, and pharmacists, among others, bear the obligation to implement changes within an organization (Ng, Alexander, & Frith, 2018). Such professionals will be the primary users of the new systems. Their involvement in the course of the project should help in defining every aspect that should be added or deleted to accommodate the needs of the entire facility. Also, the professionals in the functional units such as laboratories and bedside nurses interact consistently with patients' needs. As such, involving every department in the project creates a platform for holistic success upon implementation.
Patients are the final stakeholders who will be impacted when EHRs are implemented. The primary reason why advancements in technology are considered in healthcare is to deliver the best patient outcomes. However, it is worth remarking that technologies come with multiple challenges. Failures in technology such as breakdowns or malicious attacks can affect patient outcomes. Importantly, patients' private pieces of information are poised to be left at the mercy of other individuals. To that effect, patients should be aware of the changes that the facility tries to implement. Their inputs could be beneficial to the facility, especially if the implementation process is completed without resistance from vital stakeholders such as patients. Notably, while the above stakeholders will be impacted differently when the technologies are implemented, their inputs must be sought for efficiency throughout the project.
Patient Outcomes and Patient-Care Efficiencies
The implementation of EHRs should come with notable improvements in various areas of patient-care efficiencies and patient outcomes. The first aspect of patient outcomes improved through the implementation of EHRs is quality (Sipes, 2016). Traditional charting techniques limited healthcare professionals' ability to offer the best quality that they needed for their patients. The charts took longer to develop, were prone to destruction, and bulky to access. All such challenges have been solved with the advent of EHRs. These digital records allow professionals to access their patient records ...