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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