The impact of nursing informatics on patient outcomes and patient care efficiencies
THE IMPACT OF NURSING INFORMATICS ON PATIENT OUTCOMES AND PATIENT CARE EFFICIENCIES
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In a 4- to 5-page project proposal written to the leadership of your healthcare organization, propose a
nursing informatics project for your organization that you advocate to improve patient outcomes or
patient-care efficiency. Your project proposal should include the following:
Describe the project you propose.
Identify the stakeholders impacted by this project.
Explain the patient outcome(s) or patient-care efficiencies this project is aimed at improving and explain
how this improvement would occur. Be specific and provide examples.
Identify the technologies required to implement this project and explain why.
Identify the project team (by roles) and explain how you would incorporate the nurse informaticist in
the project team.
Use APA format and include a title page and reference page.
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The impact of nursing informatics on patient outcomes and patient care efficiencies
The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies
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The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies
Nursing informatics specialists are key people transforming healthcare by integrating health technologies. Their knowledge of information systems and nursing enables them to design and monitor systems, train nurses, ensure HIPAA regulations are followed, and evaluate system effectiveness in meeting intended objectives. With the evolving healthcare and technological landscapes, having an organization-wide EPIC electronic system would help improve patient health outcomes and streamline operations. The system will help support clinical decision-making and enhance communication.
Project Description
The project is to implement the EPIC system by prompting an organization-wide migration from manual operations. The system will be implemented in the nursing department within three months and evaluated before hospital-wide changes using the PDSA model. The system integrates different clinical functions to support clinical decisions, reduce medical errors, reduce patient waiting times, document and record all procedures, and connect other professionals within and outside the hospital. The nurse informatics specialist should understand the hospital's needs and work with the IT team to design and implement an effective system. Leaders should first inform all the staff and gather their opinions and concerns. They should communicate the importance of embracing the change to elicit their support. The experts are to train nurses and offer support as they monitor the system's operations. The PDSA model should allow the team to plan and implement the change first while collecting data to assess its effectiveness. The final step of making organization-wide changes will rely on the efficacy and adjustments made to the system. How well it works in the nursing department will determine whether it will help other departments.
Stakeholders Impacted
The project will profoundly impact patients who are the direct care recipients. They will experience better services due to streamlined activities and have reduced waiting times. Care providers will rely on adequate data they access from the system when making clinical decisions. Their health will also improve due to the elimination of medical errors. Second, nurses should have reduced work burdens due to the simplification of specific tasks. Automating the documentation process makes their work easier. Sutton and Pincock (2020) state that reduced medical errors and easy access to data sources further build their confidence. Improved patient outcomes will eventually reduce the burden of caring for patients. Third, medical staff will have enhanced collaboration through information exchange through the system. Increased efficiency in operations will boost resource allocation, enabling the hospital management to plan and budget effectively. Also, nursing informatics will be affected since they will oversee the project implementation and monitor its effectiveness. They include nurse informatics specialists and the IT department.
Patient Outcomes and Care Efficiencies
Patient outcomes will improve due to reduced medical errors. Electronic health records (EHRs) will allow clinicians to make informed decisions based on available and necessary data. Enhanced collaboration through data sharing increases accountability and eliminates individual decision-making that may result in medical errors (Shayganmehr et al., 2022). Second, patients will experience reduced waiting times due to streamlined operations. Reduced delays and hastened services will allow patients to receive timely care. Therefore, their experiences will be enhanced (Shayganmehr et al., 2022). Third, Sutton and Pincock (2020) explain that there will be care efficiencies from reduced paperwork. Unnecessary processes will be eliminated by automation of clinical functions and data sharing. Therefore, clinicians will dedicate more attention and time to patient care than non-clinical functions. Fourth, the ease of care access reduces the time they have to wait for and get relevant and essential clinical data. Fifth, making clinical decisions is improved further through collaboration with different professionals. In other words, EHRs reduce time wastage.
Technologies Required
The first technology would be the electronic health record software designed based on the hospital's needs and operating capacity. A robust system like EPIC would strengthen clinical functions and enhance data storage and sharing. Its safety should help maintain data integrity and patient privacy (Sutton & Pincock, 2020). The second technology would be barcoding and medication administration software to help automate medication management processes. Such a system will help integrate medication management with other clinical functions to reduce medical errors. Clinicians will know how, what, and when to administer to patients. The third technology is medical devices that allow clinicians to access and share data in the system at the point of care. For instance, computers should help nurses input vital signs data for individual patients at the triage level for physicians to view when treating patients. The fourth technology is telehealth, which supports virtual patient care and data input into the system. For instance, Zoom should record data from remote monitoring to feed into the system. Finally, there should be data analytic tools that allow clinicians to make informed decisions when caring for patients. For instance, clinicians should know what patients are suffering from and get relevant data to support their decision-making.
Project Team
The successful implementation of the project requires a dedicated and informed team. A nurse leader should be the project manager because they know patients' needs and provide direct patient care. Second, a nurse informatics specialist should be present to oversee the project's implementation of the system while training staff, providing support, and monitoring the program's effectiveness. The expert should work alongside the nurse leader to oversee the project's implementation. The healthcare staff are also crucial people and may include nurses, lab technicians, doctors, and other professionals. However, the targeted professionals would be nurses before the hospital makes system-wide changes. IT specialists should help provide continuous support to the staff in implementing the system. They should help maintain the system to safeguard data and patient privacy.
Incorporating Nurse Informatics
Nurse informatics is vital for the project. They bridge the gap between nurses and technology. They conduct a needs assessment to identify care gaps in current workflows for improvements. They also determine the specific needs of nurses. Their knowledge of IT would help them design and select the best systems to align with the nursing requirements (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2021). They would further work closely with the IT team and clinicians to design a suitable workflow and integrate different functions while paying attention to existing HIPAA regulations. Also, they constantly evaluate the system's usability and make adjustments to improve it as the staff continues implementing it. They train nurses to ensure their proficiency and strive for continuous improvement (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2021). While using the PDSA cycle, constant improvement should help strengthen the system before making organization-wide changes. Leveraging help from nurse informatics specialists ensures that technological changes align with nursing needs to improve patient outcomes. The project's success will also depend on other factors like collaboration and support from the relevant stakeholders. Therefore, the team should use a shared decision-making model to leverage input from different people and invite their support to minimize resistance.
References
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2021). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Schunk, D. H., & DiBenedetto, M. K. (2020). Motivation and social cognitive theory. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 60(1), 1–10. ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.101832
Sutton, R., & Pincock, D. (2020). An overview of clinical decision support systems: benefits, risks, and strategies for success. NPJ Digital Medicine, 3(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-0221-y
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