Title: Preparing for the Future of Nursing Informatics Today | Norwich University Online
Headings: Preparing for the Future of Nursing Informatics
Preparing for the Future of Nursing Informatics
Nursing Informatics Future Trends
How Norwich Prepares Students for Nursing Informatics
Advanced Nursing Role in the Delivery of Healthcare
Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice
Quality Improvement, Informatics, and Healthcare Technologies
Theoretical and Practice Foundations of Nursing Informatics
Strategic Planning and Practice Applications
Using Informatics to Improve Nursing Practice
Nursing Informatics Career Paths
Clinical Informatics Specialist
Director of Clinical Services
Chief Nursing Informatics Officer
Explore the Future of Nursing Informatics
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Content: Before electronic health records (EHRs), nurses recorded patient information on charts. Today, nursing informatics simplifies documentation and automates the transmission of patient data via connected devices to provide access by nurses, physicians, and patients. Understanding the role of nursing informatics in nursing practice is critical for individuals to advance their health care careers. The benefits of nursing informatics include a reduction in medical errors, lower costs, improved nurse productivity, and better care coordination among nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and others throughout various care stages. Advancements in the future of nursing informatics will center on automated patient and clinical data records, improved operations at health care facilities, simplified data collection, tracking, and analysis, and real-time access to patient information anytime, anywhere. Nursing Informatics Future Trends
The success of nursing informatics supports a promising future in its application to nursing practice. In case study after case study, evidence demonstrates that nursing informatics positively impacts the quality of care. The results of one study show that nursing information systems improved quality through better nursing documentation processes, enhanced patient care planning, and optimized workflows. Another case study shows the correlation between the technology used to administer medications and reductions in medication errors, which, in addition to improving patient safety, reduced anxiety in nurses and increased job satisfaction. Which nursing informatics future trends are on the horizon?