BARCODE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION1
Question 1
In order to improve the outcomes of patient care and support the nursing practice, by
developing and maintaining medical systems and data, the nursing field incorporates information
sciences, computer and nursing, altogether which is known as Nursing Informatics (McCormick
and Saba, 2015). The priority areas in the Nursing informatics, to internationally promote health,
are mobile health, patient safety, big data sciences, patient engagement, clinical decision support,
clinical implementation/evaluation, electronic quality measures, usability, data exchange,
interoperability and education & competencies. From the given case study of Computerization
can create safety hazards: A Barcoding near miss by McDonald, C, I think that the disorientation
created in between the bar coded wristbands of patients Mr. P and Mr. D (both suffering from
different illness) can result in fatal consequences in terms of patient’s health. For me, with the
technology advancement, the need of nursing informatics is extensively important to improve the
healthcare. At the same time, the evolution of nursing informatics requires extra attention as to
avoid severe consequences regarding patient’s healthcare. The use of barcoded wristbands is
useful to maintain, transfer and extract the patient’s health records and the hospital officials trust
the barcoded wristbands blindly, so if there are any unintentional mistakes like the one in the
case, the consequences will be suffered by the patient, which could be hazardous (Bonkowski et
al., 2013). Therefore, I think the use of nursing informatics is exceptional and remarkable but
when it comes to the patient’s healthcare and treatment, extra efforts and crosschecking
mechanisms should be developed in order to escape any fatal consequences.

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