Registered Nurse: Informatics, Social Media, and Person-Centered Care

This essay delves into the multifaceted role of a registered nurse, exploring the significance of nursing informatics and social media systems in modern healthcare. The essay begins by defining nursing and the responsibilities of registered nurses, emphasizing the importance of nursing informatics in managing and promoting healthcare services. It then describes person-centered care and its eight principles, highlighting how nurses cater to individual patient needs. The essay also explores nursing informatics, detailing its core operations and the use of social media for advertising and promotion. It proposes the purposes of nursing informatics, such as computer learning, distance learning and customer documentation, alongside the benefits of social media in reaching a wide audience. The key elements of both systems are identified, and the impact of nursing informatics and social media on nursing practices and the quality of person-centered care are analyzed, including both positive and negative aspects. The conclusion reiterates the essential roles of nursing informatics and social media in enhancing healthcare delivery and patient awareness.

ESSAY

TOPIC: “ Becoming a registered nurse”
INTRODUCTION
Nursing refers to the professional course which is related to the health care industry. Only
registered nurses refers for providing medical services. This report is based in becoming
registered nurses (Broadbent and et. al., 2014). The present essay is present in context with key
features of nursing informatics and online social media system. Nursing informatics system
refers to the practices through which individual is able to handle nursing along with
management. In this approach various skills and approaches are required in order to maximise
health promotion activities (Kumaran and Carney, 2014). It helps in providing services to the
maximum patients. During this process the nurses have to handle various process such as
communication, information technology and consultancy and policies.
The key elements of nursing informatics are identified as promotional activities,
implementation of advance technologies, applying networking and internet for increasing
effectiveness of services (Garneau and Pepin, 2015). Social media is considered as one of the
largest platform for promoting and advertising.
Description of Person centred Care and its principles:
Person centred care is considered as process through which the people of healthcare
sector is able to develop plans and effectively monitor them. It is considered as an essential step
in order to ensure that demands of the users are meet. It helps in determining the needs and of
patients based on the environment, life experience, values, etc (Craft and et. al., 2017). It is helps
in analysing the requirements of the person, the services are provided by the nursing staff of the
healthcare sector. This process is developed on following eight principles:
Respect for patient's preferences, through this principle patients are involved into the planning
and decision making activity. It helps in determining the needs and requirements of the
individual. Second principle is based on coordination of care, through this step effective
coordination is implemented between various unit of the health care industry. The third step is
information and education, while examination of the patients their worries and fear is identified
by the doctors (Edgecombe, Jennings and Bowden, 2013). To counter their worries they are
considering various health promotional and self care activities. It help in making people aware
about the problems. This is the fourth principle, physical comfort is considered in order to
maintain the environment and surrounding of the hospital. The fifth principle of this centred care
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approach is emotional support, with the help of this step the nursing staff is trying to reduce the
anxiety and fear of patients. Sixth principle is based on involvement of friends and family.
Through this step they are providing accommodation facilities with patients. Family members
are able to take decisions for patients. Along with this the hospital is also providing various
services for family. The seventh principle is continuity and transition, various informations are
provided related to physical activity of the patients. Along with this continuous support is
provided on the basis of medical, financial and social. The last principle is access to care, with
the help of this transportation, hospitality and appointment related information is provided to the
patients(Nielsen and et. al., 2013).
Description of nursing informatics and Social media system:
The nursing informatics is considered as a practice thorough which individual is able to
promote health care services (Cant, McKenna and Cooper, 2013). For this knowledge of various
other skills are also required such as management, implementation of computer and information
technologies and so on. These services can be provided by the registered nurses. There are
various certification courses are available for the same. With the help of this activity the nurse is
able to bring advancement into their organisation. There are various core operations are
considered that supports effective performance, such as represent ion of concepts and issues
with the help of proper evidence, research facts and figures (Spector, Zhou and Che, 2014). It
helps in influencing users and make aware with the advance health technologies. For this all the
data should be gathered by considering the standard medical infrastructure and national health
related information.
Along with this various latest researches and inventions of medical and health care
industry should be considered (Broadbent and et. al., 2014). For effectively implementing these
advertisements and promotional activities implementation of technologies should be done
effectively. However, is social media system is considered as a platform thorough which
promotion and advertisements are done effectively. It is considered as one of the advance
approach for attracting and making people aware. In this process effective implementation of
internet and networking is required (Kumaran and Carney, 2014). In this sector various service
providers are available such as Facebook, EPAS and electronic health record maintaining
system. With the help of these approaches large number of people can be informed about the
latest and advance services related to the health care (Garneau and Pepin, 2015). According to
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various research it is analysed that 25 to 30% of advertisement activities are done through these
platform (Duffield and et. al., 2014). It helps in influencing large amount of people by spending
small amount of capital. Along with this most of the people are using these platform therefore,
connection can be established easily. With the help of these service content is easily shared from
one to another due to this maximum number of people are able to know about the services and
products.
Propose:
The purpose of promoting services is make maximum number of people aware of
different health and medical services available in the market. Through which life of an individual
can be saved (Craft and et. al., 2017). For this two methods are considered as most effective and
influential. One is nursing informatics and another is social media system. Following are the
purpose of nursing informatics:
Nursing eduction: With the helps of this method students are able to access data and facts for
systematic learning. It helps identifying various control and prevention measures of the diseases.
Through their large amount of data, people are able to refer for effective understanding.
Computer Learning: Through this nursing students are able to access software in order to
reduce complexity of their work (Edgecombe, Jennings and Bowden, 2013). It helps in
maintaining records of various drugs and their doses.
Providing distance learning: It helps in providing online courses, due to which students are
able to enroll into certified courses and get professional knowledge. Teachers are able to share
their experience with the wider range of students. Through this approach physical barriers in
education can be removed (Henderson and Eaton, 2013).
Customers documentation: Details related to the nursing and medical industry consists of large
amount of data. The informations of past or medical history of patient is also stored. This leads
to a complicated data structure (Johnstone and Hutchinson, 2015). In order to effectively handle
it nursing informatics is approached
The purpose of implementing social media system is enhance the advertisement and
promotional activities (Nielsen and et. al., 2013). With the helps of this method services
providers are able to analyse the views and prospective of people about any issue. On the basis of
that they are able to implement their promotional activities effectively. It covers large area in
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order to influence individual. Along with this it also helps processing and maintenance can be
done effectively (Morrison, Meehan and Stomski, 2015).
Key element:
The key element of nursing informatics is considered as computer, nursing and
information science. With the help of these three element nurses are able to effectively handle
complicate data and information related to the drugs and medicines (Alexandrou and et. al.,
2014). With the help of this medial history of patients can be also effective managed. Along with
this various other elements are also considered such as nurses, patients, health, environment
(Broadbent and et. al., 2014). With the help of this elements functionality of nursing informatics
is completed effectively. In order to maintain effectiveness of the process certain tools are also
considered (Kumaran and Carney, 2014). On the other hand social media is also having some
key elements that are necessary for its effective performance. Some of them are registration of
individual, profile or account to receive information, effective interaction is essential or
analysing the needs and demands of user (Garneau and Pepin, 2015). At the end effective GUI is
also required in order to provide attractive interface to the uses. Through effectively interacting
all these elements social media is able to provide promotional services. This is considered as one
of the most influential approach and able to make aware maximum number of people. Therefore,
it is considered as one of the popular promotional platform (Duffield and et. al., 2014).
Impact on nursing practices and quality of person centred care:
There are significant impact of nursing informatics are analysed such as complexity of
the work is reduced. It helps in coordinating various transaction of victim. Through this approach
service providers are able to generate effective analytical report (Craft and et. al., 2017). Along
with this it speed-up the maintaining process. Thorough this approach nurses are able to
effectively maintain the workflow by implementing their though this and ideas in order to
enhance effectiveness of the results (Edgecombe, Jennings and Bowden, 2013). With the help of
maintaining electronic health record of patients, various timeliness and prescription errors can be
corrected with these method. Along with this paper and documentation work get reduced. It
provides flexibility of accessing the record from any place and time, along with this updates can
be also implemented easily (Henderson and Eaton, 2013). With the helps of web portals patients
are able to get their pathological reports faster as compare to the manual process. Along with this
able to communicate with their respective doctors through their portals. It results into increased
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patient satisfactions (Johnstone and Hutchinson, 2015). There are various navigation software
are also provided to the victims in order to guide them. It helps in providing effective guidance
related to the services along with their use. With the helps of all these analysis nursing practices
are considered as an effective approach (Nielsen and et. al., 2013).
On the other hand social media platform is also considered as an effective promotional
approach. There are various positive and negative impacts are analysed such as implementation
process is one of the complicated step of this method (Morrison, Meehan and Stomski, 2015).
During this process proficiency and experience is required. The developer should be able to
effectively debug all the issues in order to maintain smoothness of the process (Cant, McKenna
and Cooper, 2013). There are various positive factors are also associated with this process, such
as variety of themes and recommendations are provided while implementation (Spector, Zhou
and Che, 2014). With the helps of sharing process of social media people are able to refer the
post, it helps in covering large area and generate effective promotional results. It also provides
interactive platform, where people are also able to present their views and feedbacks. Through
this service messages can be easily communicated to large amount peoples within seconds. This
is considered as one of the advance technique for promotional activities. Engagement, promotion
and advertisement, analysis and measurements are considered as key features of this platform
(Duffield and et. al., 2014). Therefore, both the method are significantly important for the health
care services (Alexandrou and et. al., 2014).
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above essay, it is inferred that nursing informatics is considered as one of
the essential part of health and medical services. It helps in maintaining and handling large
amount of data. Through this approach nurses are able to maintain record of drugs, along with
their doses. It also helps in maintaining the large database containing the information of patients
medical record. On the other hand social media is also one of the important method through
which promotional and advertisement activities are handled effectively. With the help of this
method service provides are able to present their services and make people aware about the latest
and advance medical facilities being provided. It consists of various key elements such as
computer, information and nurses ion order to make ,the processing effective. On the basis of
above discussion both the process are able to generate effective results.
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