Question

1. What are the advantages of an information system?
2. How are the nursing process and critical pathway protocols related to nursing information systems?
3. What are the impacts on nursing and other health care professionals associated with order entry, laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy information systems?
4. In what ways can mobile devices such as personal digital assistants, tablet computers and IPODs improve the utility of health care information system?

Answer 1

What are the advantages of an information system?

• improved clinical care and patient safety
• quick and coordinate care
• reduced readmission
• ability to provide a user with the information needed to do any task effectively and efficienly
• computer databases and paper records provide data, but information systems provide the appropriate data about each user's tasks in a format best suited to the user
• improves the quality of plants by providing relevent information for sound decision making
• increase the size and complexity of organizations
• communication
• globalization and cultural gap
• cost effectiveness and productvity

How are the nursing process and critical pathway protocols related to nursing information systems?

A well desihned information system can facilitate and provide and faster information flow that is needed for efficient documentation processing. nurse play an essential role in patient's safety where the quality of the nursing environment and electronic documentation has a positive influence on patients

What are the impacts on nursing and other health care professionals associated with order entry, laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy information systems?

positive impact of information systems: speed in access to information, created newstartup,

negative impact of information systems: competition is not healthy, mass layoffs, privasy

In what ways can mobile devices such as personal digital assistants, tablet computers and IPODs improve the utility of health care information system?

• convenience
• begtter clinical decision making
• improved accuracy
• increased efficiency
• enhansed productvity