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Part 1

Your response to your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts.

Future Vision of Informatics

Technological innovations in the healthcare industry have always influenced healthcare practices, and nursing practice has received a significant influence from the technology. The success story of informatics in nursing practice corroborates an assuring future in its use in nursing. Innovations in the future of nursing informatics will be based on automated clinical and patient data documentation, streamlined data collection, analysis, and tracking, improved healthcare operations at healthcare facilities, and instantaneous access to patients’ health information anytime (Headquarters, 2020).

Informatics will increase connectivity between nurses and other healthcare providers, which will increase sharing of knowledge and teamwork between hospitals, nurses, and patients globally. Besides, informatics will help improve nursing research and support disease diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and treating diseases and global pandemics (Headquarters, 2020). The systems will be faster and making interactions between nurses and other healthcare providers efficient. Nursing informatics will also corroborate the analysis of patient data. Since nursing informatics uses computational systems to evaluate massive data sets to disclose prototypes and trends, promoting patient health and improving healthcare quality, nursing informatics will advance to make data analysis much more manageable and efficient.

Moreover, I envision a future that will be all about telenursing, where nurses worldwide will be using technology to provide their patients with nursing care through mobile devices and computers (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2021). This will make access to healthcare easier and affordable as many people will be accessing nursing services via their mobile phones and computers. There is a projected increase in mobile device accessibility in the future, enabling everyone worldwide to have a mobile device or a computer that will allow them to receive nursing services while at home. Nurses will be providing health assessment, treatment solutions, monitor the health of patients, monitor at-home care, and help in emergency situations. This will enable nurses to provide nursing care to patients in remote areas where healthcare facilities are limited and far.

In the future, technological advancements will enable nurses to easily access electronic health records, which will allow them to share information with their patients and other healthcare providers electronically. As a result, there will also be close to zero medical errors and improved nursing care because of improved nurse and patient interaction, communication, and healthcare expediency. In addition, nursing informatics will enable safer and more dependable prescriptions, thus reducing medical errors.

Furthermore, I envision a future where informatics will make it easy for nurses to share educational materials with patients as information technology will provide the nursing profession with a prompter capacity for creating and distributing novel knowledge in nursing. Informatics will ensure there is a constant creation of educational tools across healthcare settings that focus on enhancing health outcomes (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2021). With the availability of these educational tools, patients will receive educational materials that will provide them with deeper insights into their health, disease prevention, and health promotion, thus reducing diseases and promoting the health of many.

Finally, nursing informatics will improve therapy simulation that nurse educators use for simulation-based training for nursing students, providing simulation laboratories to teach nursing students basic skills (Headquarters, 2020). Additional development of simulation technologies will enable nurses to improve their advanced skills, and multimedia computer-centered training will enhance practical laboratory encounters even more in the coming years.

References

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2021). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

 

Headquarters, S. (2020). Summary Report: 2006 TIGER Summit-Evidence and informatics transforming nursing

Part 2

 

Your response to your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts.

Future Vision of Informatics

I will start with a word of caution that my vision for the future of informatics in nursing practice is extreme, but in my opinion, attainable. At the very least, it is an act of aiming at the sun to reach the moon. The basis for my optimism is the rapidity of development and advancement in computer technology, including in informatics. For example, the advent of iOS and Android was only over a decade ago, and in those ten years, the technology world has evolved almost every year. Therefore, I believe that the change in the next decade will be more significant than in the past decade. Furthermore, since COVID-19 has made healthcare the most critical issue in this decade, I believe that the world will invest more in advancing healthcare technology, including informatics in nursing practice.

What if extensive data analysis, including predictive analytics, would have predicted the spread and impact of COVID-19 in the USA, including guiding public health experts about which cities would be affected the most and in which order? Perhaps many of the tens of millions of Americans who had confirmed infections would have been spared their suffering. More importantly, some of the over half a million Americans would have been saved. Current trends in predictive analytics reflect a capability for predicting how communicable diseases and other health problems will affect communities. Such systems process past information to predict the future.

Nurses and other clinicians collect vast amounts of data and store it through electronic health records. Such data would be invaluable in predicting future health problems and enabling clinicians, leaders, and policy-makers to prepare for the same (Khanra et al., 2020). However, such a vision is hampered by the two main limitations of a lack of investment and the presence of limiting laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). For clarity, the HIPAA safety rule and HIPAA security rules are vital to protecting safety information (Shay, 2017). In addition, patient confidentiality is vital in ensuring that patients are candid with clinicians about sensitive health and social issues.

Nevertheless, we need to admit that privacy today is not what it was at the turn of the century. Most people post multimedia content about their healthcare experiences on their social media accounts. Social networks where people seek funds to pay medical bills will often have data that falls under the HIPAA safety rule, published with the full consent of patients and often by the patients themselves. Based on the above, most people are willing to forego their demand for privacy when their health and safety depend on it. I would argue that the need to prevent a recurrence of the vagaries of the COVID-19 pandemic, whose adversities are still ravaging all areas of American lives, deserves a relaxation of HIPAA rules. Such a relaxation would facilitate utilizing the data collected by clinicians and stored in electronic health records to be used in big data analytics to predict health outcomes. Such a move would allow investors to pull resources for the development of big data health analytics systems. The fact that more than one American company found enough funds to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time creates hope that funding for big data analytics for healthcare is possible.

The impact of big data analytics in nursing practice would be significant for nurses and their patients. Nurses would prepare for essential health issues in advance, making it easier to care for patients. Significant sacrifices would be necessary to facilitate this vision for the future of informatics in nursing practice, but its rewards would be worth the investment.