Challenges facing Nursing Informatics in the Philippines

Nursing Informatics is all about technology. The diversity and applications provide both challenges and opportunities to health worker.

The opportunity in Nursing Informatics is to update the knowledge of health workers especially nurses to become more competent in giving care to the patient.

It is great to know that Nursing Informatics is growing and thriving in the Philippines. Growing Informatics in our country is such a great privilege for us Filipinos. We should always be reminded the greatest gift of our country having Nursing Informatics existent.

Through the growing Informatics in the Philippines. It is normal that we were experiencing crisis throughout we found out that there are possible challenges in the Philippines related to Nursing Informatics and we sited three.

One of the challenges in Nursing Informatics here in the Philippines is not all nurses are Tech K, so until now many nurses do not embrace the technology, and they are still in the traditional foundation skills of the nurses.

It result in increasing gap between nurse-user and what nurses need to know to use current system efficiently. We all know that every now and then there are new trends in technology that nurses need to embrace. So, as a health workers/nurses we should  update our knowledge/skills to develop ourselves as a nurse, adopt what the technology had. Because if we don't adopt technologies, the quality of care we give to our patient is not enough. They do not fell satisfy because technology can help us to standardized our service to our patient.

Nowadays Nursing Informatics is already in Nursing Curriculum to emphasize the importance of technology to our profession.

Second, not all hospitals are currently engaged to computers were computer based data's prevailed and still not into EMR (Electronic Medical Record) It would be better if all hospitals in the Philippines were computer based. Why? Because it enabled us to become more competent and it is easier to use, more efficient and faster, So that nurses and future nurses are already equipped with the knowledge of using computer based data and no further problems were encountered.

Lastly the Nursing documentation. It is a dynamic and complex process. As an educator of nursing student, the writer is concerned not only with the present gaps in Nursing documentation to the electronic record, but with the abilities of nursing student is to learn the skill. Because institutions providing clinical experience  to students utilize varying charting methods, students become proficient at documentation. Thede suggest that nurses decide what data is to be included in the electronic record and what terminology is used to record the data, educators must work to establish consistent documentation guidelines for students.

I hope 20 years from now, our country is fully facilitated by technology!

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Is Informatics Existent in the Philippines?

Absolutely Yes, because it was known that Informatics Philippines was established in the year 1994, it is multinational corporation committed to provide quality training and education in information and communications technology to Filipinos.


Informatics has more than 30 centers operating nationwide providing lifelong learning course son corporate productivity, business solutions and higher education from undergraduate to postgraduate degree completions.

The 12th-Asia Pacific Excellence Awards(2005). The national consumers council (2001, 2002, 2004). The National consumers quality awards as outstanding computer school. The company was also elevated to the hall of fame awards for winning the International Master Franchise of the Year Award (Service Category) for two consecutive years (2001-2002) by the department of trade and Industry and the Philippine Franchise Association. 


Informatics was also awarded by the "Parangal ng Bayan Foundation with the National Consumers Excellence Award for Outstanding IT school in view of its significant contribution to the well-being of the Filipino consumers.


Globally Informatics has won many awards including the Singapore Brand-Awards 2002 and 2003, the Singapore quality class for Private Education organization as well as People Developer Standards Award.


Informatics Philippines is part of a network of training and education companies that operates in over 50 countries spreading through Asia, Europe, Africa and South Africa. Informatics Group is listed on the main board of the stock Exchange of Singapore.

Through this information it is basically genuine that informatics really do exist in the Philippines. with those awards given to informatics group here in our country. It is best describe that informatics in the Philippines established a good working society and provide all Filipinos a quality training and education in ICT. 

Can ICT solve our problems in Healthcare?

Good day! As we start the discussion, we need to define first what is ICT, so that we can really understand if it's really does solve the problems in healthcare.


Well, ICT stands for information and communication technologies.It is a technology that provide access to information through telecommunication that includes internet, wireless, network, cellphone and other communication mediums.


Regarding to the topic, can really ICT solve our problems in Healthcare?


Yes! Because nowadays, ICT is very essential tool in our society. ICT served as a means of communications and a medium or a source of information in relation to health cases. Health works becomes easy, fast, reliable and accurate. It lessens the burdens in searching solution with regards to health problems, especially to the nursing students as well as those who practice in medical fields.


Using ICT helps us to managed personal health information which is important part for our changing health care system . Particularly you and your doctor can better managed your particular healthcare by improving on how you communicate with each other and how to you be able to maintain your health information.


Through computers and others electronic devices makes it easier for you, your doctor and other healthcare providers to store, share, and access your health information such as laboratories and X-ray facilities.


Health workers can easily solve problems in healthcare with the help of information and communication technologies which we commonly known as ICT. Heath education is one way to help us prevent existent diseases through ICT is considered one of the most important thing on earth.

   

Nursing Informatics: New Trend for Future Nurses (Student Reflection)

Nurse checking the patient's profile

Greetings to everyone, We are about to discussed Nursing Informatics through technology we were be able to update data such as the patients data that contains patients history, laboratory results, diagnostic procedures and so much more.


Nursing Informatics is a combination of computer science, information science and nursing science. Information is an essential phenomenon of study for an information based-discipline. This can be applied to model the human processing data, information and knowledge within a computer system in order to automate the processing of information to nursing knowledge.


Future nurses are already prepared to used computer to make it more efficient and faster. These enables us to be computer literates. Informatics Nurses see technology as a tool to support rather than hinder the love of nursing as well as the impact for future nursing practices.


Technology is leveraged for the benefit of nursing practice and improve excellence in patient care systems and the processes. Informatics Nurses routinely cationssupport staff in using automated applications in their daily assignments on the units and play an important role that combine the passion for nursing for the love of technology, bringing a nursing perspective into the evaluation of innovative systems so that positive patients outcome are achieved on all levels.


Everyone should know nursing informatics participates strategic planning to determine system solutions that support patient care, set standards for clinical applications, conform to accelerates standards and regulating requirements and transform clinical practice.

This is very essential for nurses working inside or outside the country because these enables us to used computer based data easily which is more efficient to use because all the necessary information were easily found in the computer.