Information Technology and Decision Making
WEEK 6 DISCUSSION
Information Technology and Decision Making
Patient safety and care is reliant upon the quality of nurses' daily decision making. Nurses are constantly tending to the needs of multiple patients by providing health care information, administering drug treatments, managing patient family concerns, as well as informing other nurses and staff on the patient's condition.
Review your reading from this week and then address the following:
• Explain how well your current work setting supports you and your colleagues in decision making.
• Share your thoughts on two ways that electronic or computerized information technology could help you and your nursing colleagues improve decision making in your work setting. You can include decision support applications or not, as you wish.
Support your ideas or those of others with references from the professional nursing literature.
Post your response by Day 3 of this week. Cite the references used in APA style format.
Respond by Day 7 to at least two of your colleagues' postings in one or more of the following ways:
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Explain how well your current work setting supports you and your colleagues in decision making.
For a nurse every other moment is a chance to make a crucial decision that has to be based on evidence. At every one time the nurses are always taking care of more than one patient, and their decisions have to be based on evidence otherwise the results could be fatal. Upholding the right nursing practices and patient satisfaction therefore is hinged on the ability of the nursing teams to make the right decision every other time. Technology changes rapidly and effects the rate of reaesrch information available, as such, current information becomes obsolete after a while (Anderson & Willson, 2008). This is also hinged to the fact that, there are numerous research findings that are being produced at any given time period. The rate of information update and the production of new results and publication of the finding thereof is not practically the complication. Rather it is the interpretation of these findings and their implication on the decision making process.
At the place of work, the decision making process is hampered by lack of a refined system of reference. Much of the information that exists is therefore not up-to-date. Although there has not been any major incidences that would incriminate the nurses as being under qualified, on the reference basis of inadequate information, the decision making process is painstakingly slow and oblique (Levin, Lunney & Krainovich-Miller, 2004). Sometimes the decision to implementing certain nursing practices, has to be collaborated between several nurses for purposes of accuracy. This aspect makes health care delivery poor and sometimes quite unsatisfactory, to both the patient and the nursing team.
Share your thoughts on two ways that electronic or computerized information technology could help you and your nursing colleagues improve decision making in your work setting.
With the use of a Clinical decision support systems, the decision making process can be improved immensely and the delivery of se...