Using tech in nursing

Benefits of informatics

• Increases visibility

• standardizes nursing language

• creation of nursing minimum data set (NMDS)

ICNP

• developed by the council of nurses

• only unified international terminology for recording nursing practice

SNOMED-CT

systemized nomeclature of medicine clinical terms

C-HOBIC project

• Canadian health outcomes for better information and care

• multiprovince project to implement standardized nursing documentation approach

PIPEDA

• og only applicable to personal info collected in commercial activities by private sector entities reg. by federal government

• now extended to retail, publishing, service, and stuff

Types of electronic systems

1. point of care systems (EMR)

2. Electronic health records

3. Consumer health solutions (PHR)

point of care systems

allow entry and viewing of data within an organization

Electronic health records

allow entry and viewing of data across multiple services and a lifetime

Consumer health solutions

enables pt to enter, review, and share personal health information

Benefits of EMRs

• easy and quick documentation access

• improved monitoring by trending and tracking health services

• access to guidelines and clinical tools

• tool for health teaching

• research opportunities

International classification of nursing practice

• created i response to invisibility of nursing care

• stnadardization

• captures nursing practice across practice settings

ICT

integrated communication technologies