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Florida Atlantic University Health Information System Discussion

 

Below I have 2 posts please provide a response for both. 150 words each with reference.

Part 1

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

When a new health information system is presented the nursing staff is trained and evaluate the system. The nursing leaders are aware of the need to manage the nurse resources effectively including nursing intensity, which can collectively combine the different nursing skill levels and workload provided base on the nursing demands of the patients (Moon & Han, 2019). The health information system should be used as an indication that data estimation is the optimum nursing manpower (Moon & Han, 2019). Although some studies have estimated the nursing manpower it is also up to date. According to Moon & Han (2019), This may be appropriate for the estimation of manpower at a certain time point. The ability for the staff members to fully incorporate changes to the system, the leaders always acquire about the manpower to fully operate the system. However, it is challenging for staff nurses to utilize new information systems because of familiarity with the old system. Healthcare professionals should be flexible with new resource management methods to be able to apply to nursing care and improve patients’ care which in turn will create a dynamically change the real-time basis on healthcare (Moon & Han, 2019). With a new information system the healthcare service of crews, nursing units, and the medical institutions will elevate the services provided.

Clinical education is provided continuously and it is estimated to be the most reliable nursing resource objectively, along with the demands on the healthcare system and nursing from the evaluators’ point of view (Moon & Han, 2019). Receiving clinical education on the information system is creating a dynamic change that should be applied in a sensitive manner which in turn classified the patients as a priority (Moon & Han, 2019). Generally speaking, the information system plays a critical role to support an effective decision-making process. By doing so, the staff members within the organization are providing with the most current and accurate training on the systemic information upon collection and modification. All staff members are required to partake in the training and the information generally changes the dynamic in various environments.

In inclusion, the main purpose of nursing information systems is to enhance nursing outcomes and patient care by effective nursing work, improvement of healthcare productivity, and supporting clinical decision-making by both nursing staff and the information system team members (Cheng et al., 2019). According to Cheng et al (2019), in order for the hospital organization to manage numerous resources and maintain flexibly is to enhance the nursing outcomes by responding to various dynamic demands of the patients, nursing staff and develop a nursing information system that integrates changes that acquire several features to save, modify, and edit the health information system that is the most efficient resources for nursing management in a real-time basis.

Below I have 2 posts please provide a response for both. 150 words each with reference.

Part 2

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

Information systems upgrade at my hospital is generally a good thing. Perhaps that statement sounded more guarded than I intended it to, but the excitement of getting a new information system is usually accompanied by trepidation. As nurses, we often worry about how much of our free time we will have to sacrifice for the training program and how long it will take before conversing with the new system. We often also worry about how long it will take after talking with the new system before a new one is put in place.

I usually divide the information systems in our hospital into two segments, the first being the systems we own, such as the advanced alarm system in the cardiac step-down unit where I work. The second component is the hired system, which comprises the electronic health records system that the hospital procures from a contractor. The training regimens for the two categories of information systems vary exponentially. For example, the training regimen for the third-party contractor is more structured, organized, and fruitful, while that of internal informatics is more informal and less effective.

Despite differences in training approaches, the training syllabi for the two programs are similar and include three main components. Component one is how to handle the systems to prevent damage to the hardware or software. Information systems are expensive, and damage can incur monumental losses to the hospital in repairs, replacement, and loss of service (Andargoli et al., 2017). In addition, engineers are keen on ensuring that we avoid inferences or accidents that can damage the system. Indeed, it appears that the institution considers our ability to protect the system as more important than our ability to use it effectively. Nevertheless, effective and efficient use is the second area of training. It involves learning how to apply the systems in our day-to-day work without excessive wastage of time and other resources.

The final area of training is the security component relating to the protection of patient information as provided by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. For example, every electronic health records system upgrade comes with an issue beyond previous data security provisions, such as increased interoperability. Usually, such an upgrade is accompanied by a relaxation of HIPAA rules by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Arnetz et al., 2020). Therefore, these changes form an essential part of our training regimen whenever there is an upgrade of the information system.

Generally, nursing work is demanding and requires sacrifice and dedication, which I am comfortable with, but the training sessions often push me to the limit. Typically, there is no relaxation of work schedules due to a scarcity of highly skilled nurses working in my specialty. Therefore, the training programs are squeezed alongside the regular working schedules, which exacerbates the work-life balance issue. In addition, the more structured and disciplined training program run by the contractors is more efficient than the program run locally by the hospital, increasing our work-related strains. Eventually, the systems upgrades improve our work, making for a welcome change, but the training and transition process can be chaotic.

Finally, nurses are rarely involved in the evaluation of the information systems after implementation. Typically, when the hospital considers an upgrade, our managers will collect our opinions about the current system and what we think needs improvement. However, I have never seen any evidence that our views are inculcated into the upgrades and new acquisitions. When the new program is put in place, we may pass on our evaluations in the form of complaints but not as part of a formal evaluation process.