Question

1. You are a student nurse providing care for patients in a hospital setting. Your nursing informaticist specialist is holding a meeting with all staff to explore alternate methods of documenting patient data. The hospital currently uses hand written records.
   1. What are the advantages of having the technology available to institute electronic health records?
   2. What is the role of the nursing informaticist specialists in this process?
   3. What are the basic steps the staff will follow when using the system development lifecycle (SDLC) process to ensure successful implementation of a new electronic health record?
   4. Discuss use of the core terms basic to informatics.

Answer 1

a.a)providing accurate,up to date,and complete information about patients at the point of care., b)enabling quick access to patient records for more coordinated,efficient care .c)securely sharing electronic information with patients and other clinicians, d)helping providers more effectively diagnose patients,reduce medical errors,and provide safer care,e) improving patient and provider interaction and communication,as well as health care convenience,f) enabling safer,more reliable prescribing,g)helping promote legible, complete documentation h)reducing costs through decreased paper work.

b)Informatics nurses embrace the use of data generated from EHR to support knowledge and wisdom development, because they are well positioned to recognise health care gaps and find transformative ways to guide practice.Informatics nurses lead initiatives that improve patient wellbeing.Informatics nurses use the electronic health record to support knowledge and wisdom development.

C)The steps to take for a successful implementation of EHR are the following.

1.build your EHR implementation team.

2.prepare the software.

3.determinevyour hardware needs.

4.consider the patient treatment room layout.

5.transfer data.

6.create workflow

7.what to do when your EHR is down.

d)the core terms are,used to collect, create and distribute data, development,use and manage of an organisation' IT infrastructure.