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Teaching Nursing Informatics Is A Must in The Philippines

The document discusses the importance of teaching nursing informatics in the Philippines. It notes that in 2008, the Commission on Higher Education required nursing programs to replace basic computer courses with 3 units on nursing informatics. Nursing informatics can be applied to various areas of nursing including clinical practice, administration, education, and research. The document provides examples of how computers are used in nursing education, practice, and research. It also gives an overview of the historical development of automated systems in Philippine hospitals from the 1970s to the 2000s.

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Teaching Nursing Informatics Is A Must in The Philippines

The document discusses the importance of teaching nursing informatics in the Philippines. It notes that in 2008, the Commission on Higher Education required nursing programs to replace basic computer courses with 3 units on nursing informatics. Nursing informatics can be applied to various areas of nursing including clinical practice, administration, education, and research. The document provides examples of how computers are used in nursing education, practice, and research. It also gives an overview of the historical development of automated systems in Philippine hospitals from the 1970s to the 2000s.

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Teaching Nursing Informatics is a must in the Philippines.

 January 2008 - CHED memorandum order CMO NO. 5 series of 2008 to all deans of the
colleges of nursing throughout the country.
CMO NO. 5 series of 2008
 It requires the replacement of basic computer with 3-unit Nursing Informatics in the
new curriculum.
Application of Nursing Informatics
 Nursing Informatics can be applied to all areas of nursing practice, which include;
 clinical practice
 Administration
 education, and
 Research.
1. COMPUTERS IN NURSING EDUCATIONS
1) PDA (Personal Digital Assistants)
2) LCD Projectors
3) Wireless Routers
4) Desktops
5) Laptops
6) Smartphone
7) VIDEOS/ANIMATIONS
8) Distance learning
9) Testing (NCLEX)
10) Student and course record management
2. COMPUTERS IN NURSING PRACTICE
1) Records client information
2) Provides access to other departments
3) Used to manage client scheduling
4) Documentation of clients status & medical records keeping
 Provides access to standardized forms, policies and procedures
 Access data about client that may be somewhere in the medical record or
elsewhere in health care agency.
5) BEDSIDE DATA ENTRY
 records clients assessments, medication administration, progress notes, care
plan updating, client acuity and accrued charges
6) COMPUTER BASED CLIENT RECORD EMRs/CPRs
 Provides easy retrieval of specific data such as trends in vital signs,
immunization records, current problems
 It can be designed to work providers about conflicting medications or client
parameters that indicate dangerous conditions
7) ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO CLIENTS
 Used extensively in health care to assess and monitor clients conditions
 Data accumulated from various electronic devices are stored for research
purposes
 Can monitor client
 Computerized diagnosis
 Telemedicine
8) PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
 Used to order supplies, tests, meals, and services, from other departments
 Allows nursing service to determine the most costly items used by a particular
nursing unit.
 May provide information or decisions to modify budget, provide different
staffing, move supplies to different locations, or make other changes for more
efficient and higher quality care
3. COMPUTERS IN NURSING RESEARCH
1) PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
 Useful in locating current literature about the problem and related concepts.
Helps in searching for existing documents, and e-mail to colleagues.
2) LITERATURE REVIEW
 Software facilitate searches, contains thesauruses so that the most appropriate
terms can be selected.
3) RESEARCH DESIGN
 Search literature for instruments that have already been established or to
design and test instruments that need to be developed for past study.
4) DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
 Helps create form for the collection of data such as informed consent,
demographic data, and recording forms.
Commonly used software for quantitative data analysis: SPSS ( statistical
package for social sciences), SAS (statistical analysis system), Sys STAT, MYSTAT
5) 5. RESEARCH DISSEMINATION
 computer word processing programs are used to author the final reports of
research and send research to various readerships.
Help speeds completion or research projects

Automated System in the Philippines

 1970s
 Computers are mainly used to automate billing.
 Hospital networks expanded to include information process in admission, discharge and
transfer (ADT) (mid 70s)
 Networks now include pharmacy section, now connecting 3 big departments:
accounting, ADT and pharmacy. (late 70s)
 1980s
 Laboratory and imaging departments are already using their special computers (early
80s)
 Integrated system expanded to the clinical area. (mid 80s)
 90’s hospital bought conversion software and hardware in order to deliver the
laboratory and imaging machines to link their main system creating interfaced systems.
 2000s –
 LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM (LIS) & RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEM (RIS)
started to enroach into the main hospital information systems.
 Late 2000s – The Philippine Heart Center will soon implement the internet-based
hospital information system (HIS) to allow healthcare team to access access it anywhere

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