Western Governors University
Nursing Informatics
Nut 1 Task 2 It is often times a question as to how we, as healthcare professionals, can go about strengthening and bettering the quality of care that we provide to our patients. There are a number of ways to do that, including purposeful rounding, treating patients as a whole rather than just diagnoses, providing family and patient centered care, etc. One important action that can be taken to better the quality of care is through the use of our ever changing, always advancing, technology. Years ago, when computer systems did not exist, we did what we could to provide the best care we could, with the most efficient communication, charting, etc. Today, with the use of our advancing technology, we have the ability to use computerized management systems for efficiency, proficiency, and increased quality of care. The various aspects of using computerized management systems in the healthcare setting, including the efficiency, privacy, and cost will be discussed.
How Computerized Management Systems Increase Quality of Care It is not easy to give up old habits and pick up new ones and it is certainly not easy to do that in the healthcare setting when people's lives are under our control. Computerized management systems are the use of technological advances such as computers and handheld devices to gather and input data on each patient entering and exiting your care. The use of this technology allows us, as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to be more efficient when we document, search, input orders, etc. The epitome of nursing care is documenting care that has taken place and that we have performed for each patient. With the use of computerized management systems, instead of having to remember each and every single action carried out for the patient, there could be about 15 columns of preset