Nursing Informatics has to do with nursing integration, management of information, processing information and communication technology, to support people’s health worldwide (HIMSS, 2007). However, the course facilitators of this program can help nursing students feel empowered by developing creative teaching strategies or enhancing the quality of teaching, learning and preparing students to manage the increasing volumes of existing information. For instance, The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative has an objective to empower the nursing body which includes both nurses and nursing students to fully participate in the digital period of health care. A Delphi study was done to indicate the need for a list of informatics …show more content…
The best evidence currently available for clinical decision making, is to provide the most appropriate patient care categorized by registered nurses (p.40). An example of human error was outlined when nurse Adams lost her patient after she did something that she was taught in nursing school she should always practice, always keep bed rails up to ensure patient safety. The same intervention that usually would protect patients contributed to killing this said patient. Now she questions if it was the right intervention an what could have been done differently (p.41). Research shows that Information technology can contribute to the reduction of human errors by preventing errors along with its contrary events that may occur. There is provision of a more rapid response after such an incident has happened, along with timely and more reliable feedback about adverse experiences (Bates & Gawande, 2003). With that said documentation has been shown to take 13%- 28% of the nurses time, valuable time that can be used to interact and communicate effectively with patients (TIGER Initiative, 2007). However, as online documentation such as electronic health records are being introduced in certain health institutions across the globe , the nurse along with the healthcare team can save a lot of time by being provided the opportunity to have quicker …show more content…
There are many causes of healthcare disparities ranging from race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. In order to eliminate bias there must be equitable healthcare by improving access and working on the elements that promote these disparities in health care. It also means creating systems that are patient centered, provides care that support healing and caring relationships that are reactive to patients’ needs and requests .Such disparities include; lack of health insurance coverage and low socioeconomic patients which are highest in the list . There is potential for healthcare disparities to widen just as much as there is potential for it to decrease depending on the measures put in to place to curb existing ones as technology advances (NCBI, 2016). On the other hand, nurses( mainly in the first world countries, like United States of America, for instance) are being introduced to better technology and improved quality and safety education and training which in turn can contribute to a reduction in healthcare disparities (Cronenwett et al.,