Response to decision making

Role of Nursing in Decision Making Regarding Information Systems

 

Peatrian Samuels

NUR 422: Informatics in Nursing

April 8, 2021

 

Role of Nursing in Decision Making Regarding Information Systems

Nursing has a massive contribution to the selection of information systems. Essentially, all the decisions that nurses make while carrying out their nursing care impact clinical practices. Various studies suggest that most nurses spend about 15% of their time taking care of patients directly and more than 50% of the time maintaining and managing patient data (Rangraz et al., 2017, p. 69). Also, nursing decisions determines patient's outcome and their satisfaction. Advanced information systems help nurses promote health care delivery in an organization; thus, they need to be involved in decision-making processes.

Documentation

Nursing information systems help nurses to improve their mode of documenting patient records. Proper clinical documentation has a significant role in all health care systems. Therefore, it is the role of nursing to provide easy recording mechanisms through information systems to store necessary data. On the same note, the method used for data storage must be reliable, systematic, and uniform to allow nursing staff to render good care to patients. Some of the data that nurses store in the information systems include drugs to be administered, dosage, medical test schedules, medical test results, and other relevant patient information ((Rangraz et al., 2017, p. 75). Nurses takes part in decision-making regarding information systems to reduce the possibility of redundancy in paperwork. Similarly, nurses should choose a documentation method that would enhance easy accessibility of patient's histories whenever required.

Assessing Suitability for Tasks

Nurses have to use information systems to assess and evaluate patient's understanding, condition, and plan for appropriate care. Therefore, in decision-making regarding information systems, nurses give their opinions about the systems' effectiveness. On the other hand, nurse leaders should ensure all nursing data is captured and stored safely for future use (Simamora, 2019, p. 151). Nurse managers should ensure that the installed information systems enhance the nursing staff's easy supervision to deliver better health care services. Thus, nursing decides on the appropriate information systems that would reduce medical errors and potential risks.

Planning of Care

Every nurse is directly involved in the decision-making process regarding the patient's treatment. Nursing should have personnel who can think critically about patient assessment processes to come up with the most appropriate plan of care. For nurses to make proper communications regarding patient's health, they should be involved in information systems' decision-making. In this regard, they will become conversant with its operations and functioning, resulting in excellent and efficient communication in an organization (Simamora, 2019, p. 147). Information systems in nursing help to grow communication capabilities hence promoting developments of care plans.

Finally, information systems help in the decision-making of nurses. Therefore, nursing has a role to play in determining appropriate information systems that suit their tasks. That way, nurses can ensure patients satisfaction due to proper documentation of information. Also, nurses easily plan for their patient's care because of good communication channels in health care organizations. The integration of nursing information systems gives room for data synchronization in all medical facilities, thus reducing possible medication errors.