Technology is transforming the world…FAST! Every aspect of our lives is being impacted by this constant change. My first grader can run a computer better than my 61 year old mother. My 13 year old nephew can write computer programs. I have my i-Phone, laptop and desktop computer and I still feel technologically challenged too often.
According to Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, nursing informatics is “a combination of nursing science, information science, and computer science” (McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K., 2009, p. 5). As I read this definition, the first thing that pops into my mind is “I went to school to be a nurse…I don’t have a communications degree and I definitely had no desire to work in IT!” Here’s the deal—it doesn’t matter! McGonigle & Mastrian (2009) also explain that:
Nurses are knowledge workers, working with information and generating information and knowledge as a product. We are knowledge acquirers, providing convenient and efficient means of capturing and storing knowledge. We are knowledge users, individuals or groups who benefit from valuable, viable knowledge. Nurses are knowledge engineers, designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining knowledge. We are knowledge managers, capturing and processing collective expertise and distributing it where it can create the largest benefit. We are knowledge developers or generators, changing and evolving knowledge based on the tasks at hand and information available. (p. 9).
And to that extremely long but amazing quote I say, WOW! We nurses are pretty amazing people!
I carry a handheld computer around at work and I scan medications and patient’s wrist bands. I chart on a computer in the patient’s room or the COW in the hall or the desktop/laptop at the nurse’s station. The IV pumps I use are all computerized and the clinics, doctor’s offices, and hospital computers are all networked together. When I fax a medication order it is scanned automatically into a computer for the pharmacist. That’s where the information science and computer science come into play.
I will graduate next spring with my BSN and I am taking Health Care Informatics. As I read the syllabus and learned that I was going to twitter and blog for this class I questioned the validity of the assignment and quite frankly, asked myself how that really applies to nursing. What the first week of class taught me is that caring for my patients is still my main priority; however, technology has changed the scope of nursing. Electronic records, e-mail, internet, and social networking require us to enter the electronic age. Don’t forget…we nurses are knowledge users!
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2009). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC.
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