The Role of Health Information Technology in Nursing Services

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the critical role of health information technology (IT) in modern healthcare, with a specific focus on its impact on nursing practices. It emphasizes the significance of IT in improving clinical services, including database management, electronic medical records, and digital tools, to enhance the therapeutic care process and patient satisfaction. The report highlights the importance of nurses' involvement in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), detailing their roles in planning, requirements definition, analysis, system design, implementation, and post-implementation support. Key considerations include analyzing current nursing practices, addressing medication errors, and ensuring compliance with health IT standards to optimize patient outcomes. The report references several academic sources, underscoring the significance of health IT in modern healthcare.

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Health information technology is a very critical aspect of the care process and it is a
very critical aspect to the modern day health care system and service delivery (Mackert et al.,
2016).. The database management as well as the use of electronic medical records in addition
to digital posters that are used in the health care organization framework and in different
departments to help the various ways of the clinical flow is pertinent to a nursing process
establish its prowess in the whole aspect of the therapeutic service process delivery. It is to be
understood that in a clinical scenario – various aspects of medication administration errors
made by the nurses and non-compliance with hand hygiene and non-wearing of the personal
protective equipment lead to different types of the causations of the hospital acquired
infections that in turn play a part in the play a deterioration of the service delivery process
and decrease in patient satisfaction with the level of the care process delivered (Wachter,
2016). Thus, it is very critical to be understood that the health information technology, in the
modern era, play a crucial role in the better flow of the clinical services of which the nursing
service delivery is one of the most inherent aspects of the delivered therapeutic care. Thus, as
a graduate level nurse, participating in the implementation process of the Systems
Development Life Cycle (SDLC), is vital and the nursing professional play an important
functional role in each step of the cycle.
Planning and requirements definition – in this stage the nurse must be involved in the
actual decision making and strategy making process that precedes the actual health
technology implementation process. The feedbacks from the other nurses and the assistant
staffs must be taken by the nurse in order to strategize the technology application better
(Cresswell et al., 2017).
Analysis – in this stage the various drawbacks of the nursing daily day to day practice
has to be analyzed properly in addition to the current needs of the clinical scenario (Singh &

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Sittig, 2016) and planned and delivered in a very pertinent of manner so that the various ways
of the health information technological interventions finds the right outcomes. The dynamics
between the nurses, the workplace safety and the skill sets of the nurses in addition to the lag
has to be analyzed by the nursing profession in this stage.
In the phase that that succeeds is the ‘Design of the new system’ and the nurse can
help the actual designers by helping them with exact needs and gaps presented in a daily day
to day clinical practice scenario, so that the problems that presents itself regularly in the
nursing profession are addressed in an imperative manner.
Implementation stage is the active stage of the cycle where the nurse would empower
the other nurses and train the other nurses in order to be correct and appropriate with the
compliance parameters related to health information technology.
Once, the health information technology has been applied to the health care system,
Post-implementation support is the next stage where the nursing professional has to take
more feedback from the team and provide more training as well as workshops to empower
the other nurses with the skills related to health information technology.

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References
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Mackert, M., Mabry-Flynn, A., Champlin, S., Donovan, E. E., & Pounders, K. (2016). Health
literacy and health information technology adoption: the potential for a new digital
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Singh, H., & Sittig, D. F. (2016). Measuring and improving patient safety through health
information technology: The Health IT Safety Framework. BMJ Qual Saf, 25(4), 226-
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Wachter, R. (2016). Making IT work: harnessing the power of health information technology
to improve care in England. London, UK: Department of Health.