Assignment on Nursing - NURS 0000

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Walden University
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(Example: NURS 0000 Section 01, Title of Course)
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The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Health Outcomes
According to the definition of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
s nursing informatics is considered as a specialty which integrated nursing science, computer
science as well as information science for communicating data and managing data in nursing
practice.” In this context, nursing informatics has become extremely important due to rapidly
changing technologic advances. As discussed by Booth et al. (2017), in the United States,
previously nursing professionals experienced various challenges associated with documentation,
difficulties in the communication of patient data and care, decision making which resulted in
compromised quality of care, high medication, documentation and communication errors, and
mortality rate. On the other hand, Kinnunen et al. (2017), suggested that the majority of the
nursing professionals lack the knowledge of technology or databases which resulted in
compromised quality care, high cost of the health care, frequent breaching of confidentiality
ethics. The purpose of this paper is to implement nursing informatics by integrating a server-
based electronic medical database system which will improve the outcome and efficiency of
health care. Kotter’s change management would be used for implementing the nursing
informatics projects.
Stakeholders impacted by the project:
Four stakeholders would be directly impacted by implementing the nursing informatics
would be nursing professionals, physicians, non-health care staffs and patients. The nursing
professionals would be highly impacted by the projected as it will enable nursing professionals to
secure patient data and send information to the physicians quickly and efficiently, improve daily
work flow, provide the best possible data and restore confidentiality of the patient without doing
communication and documentation errors. It will also help nursing professionals to assess

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potential issues associated with patient care and nursing practice. it will help nursing
professionals to improve decision making, use critical thinking skills and improve health
outcomes. Storing information in server-based electronic medical databases will be more easily
available to all members of the multidisciplinary team, especially physicians. It will further
enable professionals to gain the information quickly, interpret data and develop an appropriate
plan of action (McBride & Tietze, 2016). The project will implement help other non-health care
staff to gather information for collaborating in the care process so that each patient receives
standardized care. Considering the fourth stakeholder, the implementation of nursing informatics
will improve patient care which in turn improve patient satisfaction and improve health outcome
(Honey et al., 2017). While the project will have a positive impact on these stakeholders, the
negative impact of the project would be that due to lack of expertise, many professionals,
especially nurses and physicians may be subjected to a high level of psychological distress such
as anxiety, depression and reluctant to adhere to the project (Ashrafi et al., 2019). Hence, in this
context, necessary education and training are required to give to the stakeholders for the
successful implementation of the project and gain a positive impact.
Explain the outcome or efficiency and process of implements:
The positive outcome of the project will be improved the efficiency of the care process
and quality of care process. Applying informatics to the clinical setting will help nursing
professionals and physicians to identify potential issues associated with care. For example, after
gaining quick information with the help of electronic documentation the server-based databases,
the nursing professionals and physicians can identify quick changes in the patient status such as
vital signs of the patients. The standardized nursing language will facilitate the acceptance of
advance methods of the documentation in the server-based electronic databases (Adams et al.,