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My current practice setting is a family medicine practice. I am an RN supervisor there. We see about 100
patients every day, depending on how many providers we have working that day.
Informatics is used every day. We
use it daily by using triage protocols to help assess our patients over the phone. We have electronic health records,
secured phones to text and chat about a patient. Monitors that are used to assess patients and more. Our goal as a
nurse is to be able to provide high quality care to our patients and their well-being. Informatics is accountable for
being able to improve this and giving us the nurses time to deliver this care.
In our facility, our organization uses EPIC as it server.
This is a well-known and comprehensive healthcare
informatics platform (Jha et al., 2009). This system is our primary system. We use this daily for charting, documenting
our vital signs and key assessments. Medication administration. We also can use this to communicate daily through
our web portal with patients to help keep the updated with their health. A great key with EPIC is if we are using the
MAR, and a patient has a specific allergy to a medication, it will not allow you to scan and it will give you a pop up as
to why. This is great to help reduce medication errors. If there is a drug to drug interaction, if will alert you and you
may need to confirm with the ordering provider if they still want to precede with this medication.
It also will give you
pop ups for high alert medications such as insulin. In our inpatient setting you need two nurses to sign off on these
medications, this again gives the room to check again, and have someone else check prior to give these high alert
medications.
The purpose to heave health care informatics and the technology that we do have it to be able to improve
patient care, and reduce medication errors, and near miss events. One topic that I would like to use for my module
eight assignment is how informatics can help to reduce medication errors, and another choice may to how we use
secure messaging/telehealth in healthcare. When COVID hit, we used telehealth and secure messaging as a way to
still provide healthcare to our patients. Telehealth is a growing and becoming very big in healthcare facilities.
References:
Jha, A. K., DesRoches, C. M., Campbell, E. G., Donelan, K., Rao, S. R., Ferris, T. G., Shields,A., Rosenbaum, S., &
Blumenthal, D. (2009). Use of Electronic Health Records in theU.S. Hospitals. New England Journal of
Medicine, 360(16), 1628-1638.https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa0900592
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