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Future of Nursing Informatics

20, 30 years, what will happen to nursing informatics around the world?  

Technology—we can’t deny the fact that technology played a vast role in the progress and development of the nursing community. The need for innovative technologies in healthcare education and service has never been greater. Technology made the life of nurses and other health professionals a whole lot easier and more convenient. 

For quite some time now, many inventions are popping out of different countries that led to major advancements of the nursing field. Examples are the “call bells” that can only be pressed if the patient really needs help, and the “Instapan” or the inflatable bedpan, that with just one press of a button this flat sheeting will inflate to be miniature round rubber raft suitable to catch all excretory needs and many more. These innovations have been great help in the nursing field but one of the major advancements that we can surely say that have a tremendous benefit is NURSING INFORMATICS.

Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers in their decisionmaking in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology. With nursing informatics, the managing of data about the patients being admitted and discharged from the hospital and even just patients having consultations will be easier and there will be less error.

Even now that nursing informatics are just starting to rise, it already made countless contributions for the progress of the nursing field. How much more after 20 or 30 years.

Nursing informatics in the future will be more enhanced. There will be more innovations that will help the nurses in the hospital. Others may say that these programs and these inventions have negative effect in the nursing profession because the nurses will become dependent to the technologies and there will be less man-power in the future because all things found in hospital will become automated. But these are not the main focus why there is nursing informatics.

In the future there will be more patient-nurse communication and patient and health personnel relationship with be strengthen. Instead of having  a long time in charting and looking for information about the patient’s condition, information will be held faster and the nurse will have enough and even more time for patient care. It will convenient to the hospital staff and also to the patients as well.