The Assignment on Nursing Reflection - Introduction

Running head: NURSING REFLECTION
NURSING REFLECTION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
An electronic health record or a digitalized health record is a digital version of the
patient’s paper chart. This provides real time patient centred records which makes the
information accessible immediately and securely to the authorised users. An EHR does not
contain the treatment and the medical history of the patient. EHR contains the medical history
of a patient, the treatment plans, immunization dates, radiology images, laboratory and the
test results. It provides an automated and streamlined provider workflow. It promotes a
greater ad seamless flow of the information within a digital care infrastructure that is created
by the electronic heath records. Again, Electronic health records have made it possible to
improve the communication between the health care professionals, intended for the research,
legal processes and audits (da Costa & Linch, 2020). It has been found in various surveys
that the nurses have not yet got sufficient training on the information technology system. This
fact have encouraged me to take up this topic for self –reflection. Being a nurse, it is my duty
to help health care setting to adopt the e-health records. I will use the framework of Gibb’s
reflection for doing the reflection.
Personal and Professional self-reflection
I personally believe that electronic health record is one of the greatest inventions in
medical science. Large health organisations and the government agencies have been
recognizing the value of the EHR for the determination of the optimal patterns of care.
Additionally, as per my knowledge the EHR used previously were much difficult to
understand and handle. But with time, everything has been simplified and has been made user
friendly (Boonstra, Versluis & Vos, 2014). EHR records are now being designed, modified,
used and viewed by various independent organsations that included the primary care
clinicians, insurance houses and the hospitals. I have seen how the EHR are being used in the

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primary care exam rooms for documentation The health care providers are now utilizing
order sets, recognition of voice, documentation and barcordes for entering information
directly in to the EHR. The decision support norms and the computerised provider order entry
(CPOE) are also used regularly (Adams, 2015). Nowadays, the mobile devices having high
resolution cameras are also used by the healthcare professionals for capturing the pictures
from the bedside an incorporate them in to the EHR. I have personally gone through recent
papers and have found out that EHR widely improves communication between the health
care providers and the other hospital staffs, as everything is just a one click away. All the
information of a particular patient can be obtained at a go. Hence, we the nurses will not have
to deal with a number of papers. There is less chance of paper getting misplaced and this of
course reduced the chance of medical errors taking place. Again, transferring of the patient
information has been made lot easier by EHR as they can be exchanged via wide range of
techniques like emails and multiple facilities (Adams, 2015). They are also been used in the
home health and in the hospice services for recording the patient services. However,
implementation of the electronic health care records can be difficult to implement as many
current health care professionals got their educational training before the explosion of the
information technology and providing training to this group might become difficult. Again, I
cannot deny the genuine barriers towards the implementation of the EHRs, as many of the
hospitals still have not transformed or have not upgraded from the use of hard copy of records
to computerised health records. The EHR transformation is quite an expensive transformation
as it ranges from buying of the computers, printers and the other hard wares that are required
(Adams, 2015). I also feel that the clinicians do not possess enough knowledge about the
security measures that needs to be followed in order to prevent breaching of confidentiality of
the patient information. Another important issue related to the e-health technology that feels
concerning to me, is the confidentiality issue related to the e-health technologies. Security