Importance of Informatics in Nursing Education and Professional Practice

Running head: INFORMATICS RESPONSE
Informatics Response
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1INFORMATICS RESPONSE
Response 1
In nursing profession, it is imperative to include informatics in nursing education and
professional nursing practice. Nurses are required to achieve professional roles through
developing competency in informatics system. Nursing goals to achieve high quality patient
care involve the use of efficient communication and information exchange and cooperation
with health care colleagues. The nursing practice and efficient care delivery to patients
involve communication and sharing of information as the core requirement to achieve high
patient outcomes (Lin et al., 2014). Nursing education therefore needs to be at a high level to
promote effective communication and relay of critical information between health care
colleagues. The advancement of health care treatment options through incorporating high
throughput technological equipments requires that the nurses become efficient in
computerized system operation and informatics skills in order to allow a smooth flow of work
within the hospital settings; this will minimize the medical errors that occurred previously
(Huston, 2013). Informatics act as a communication medium in nursing professional practice
to provide retention, storage and transfer of clinical information for increased patient
outcomes (Lin et al., 2014). The increased organisational impact of nursing on health care
delivery must establish effective information systems and therefore developing informatics
competency in health care delivery is imperative to promote efficient professional
performance in nursing.
Response 2
The transforming health care system in US with increasing patient population
demands for high accuracy and quality of care delivery. The health care institutions are often
connected in order to promote a global care management approach through sharing of care
template plan. It is demanded by the patients that their health status and other medical details