OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY

Valenzuela City • Quezon City • Antipolo City • Cabanatuan • Pampanga

Nursing Informatics

Name: BACUNAWA, ERIC S. Section: 2Y3-1

Program: NURSING

Devise your own Committee Structure responsible for developing Clinical Information System in the
Philippine setting. Personalities may be included (hypothetical or based on the significant persons in the
industry).

The provision of services can't be effective without reliable and valid knowledge being exchanged
between the various levels of the health care system. It is important that health care professionals and
care staff provide at least three different levels of clinical information to ensure proper care for their
patients. It is crucial for healthcare providers to include a variety of documentation that includes
therapeutic, operational, managerial, and supply records to properly monitor, manage, and evaluate the
performance of their operations.

Information and information exchange are crucial to the delivery of care on all levels of the health care
delivery system the patient, the care team, the health care organization, and the encompassing political-
economic environment. To diagnose and treat individual patients effectively, individual care providers
and care teams must have access to at least three major types of clinical information the patient's health
record, the rapidly changing medical-evidence base, and provider orders guiding the process of patient
care. In addition, they need information on patient preferences and values and important administrative
information, such as the status and availability of supporting resources

To integrate these critical information streams, they will also need training/education, decision-support,
information-management, and communications tools. For individual patients to participate as informed,
“controlling” partners in the design and administration of their own care, they must also have access to
much the same kind of information and education, decision-support, and communications tools in a
“patient-accessible/usable” form.

At the organizational level, hospitals and clinics need clinical, financial, and administrative
data/information to measure, assess, control, and improve the quality and productivity of their
operations. At the environmental level, federal/state funding and regulatory agencies and research
institutions need information on the health status of populations and the quality and
productivity/performance of care providers and organizations to execute regulatory oversight, protect
and advance the public health (surveillance/monitoring), evaluate new forms of care, accelerate
research, and disseminate new medical knowledge/evidence.
Develop a document on a “hypothetical healthcare device” that would probably be
necessary in the nursing practice in the Philippines containing the following information:

1.) o Device name :

Medicine Delivery Machine

o Picture/ Draft
:

o Rationale

: Nurses are sometimes overloaded with the work, this medicine delivery
machine can help nurses lessen their work.

o Functions/ Features

: It delivers the medicine from the patient’s room the nurse will
just put the oral medicine inside it.

o Implications to Clinical Practice

: It will lessen the work of the nurses it comes with

an instruction for the medicine so there would be no problem that will occur In the
future.

2.) o Device name:

HeartStart FRx Defibrillator

o Picture/ Draft
:
o Rationale

: The device will generate a controlled shock to the patient through

multifunctional defibrillator to restore the patient's normal heart beating.

o Functions/ Features

: for emergency responders to managed abnormal heart rhythm the

most common indication of sudden loss of cardiac function and
pulseless rapid
heartbeat.

o Implications to Clinical Practice

: uses two stimulation electrodes sensors positioned on

the patient's chest to provide the patient with electrical activity of the heart. Sensor
detects irregular heartbeat, and can warn the user that "shock" from the defibrillator to
restore regular heart
pumping is necessary. It provides voice and text commands to
guide the user to a process like cardiopulmonary resuscitation It’s an essential in the nursing practice considering that it help in by having an intuitive
step by step voice instructions, help guide basic live support while treating suspected cardiac arrest.
 “Studies relating to the application of technology in Nursing Research and Education”

Information Technology in Nursing Education: Perspectives of Student Nurses

Advances in Information Technology (IT) have impacted the healthcare landscape globally. There is constant
pressure to challenge the status quo and improve the quality of nursing education and nursing practice in
order to keep up to date with contemporary developments and challenges. While developed countries
remain the pioneers and at the forefront of IT, developing countries like South Africa acknowledge and slowly
respond to the need for IT in the healthcare environment . This changing environment requires healthcare
practitioners to keep pace with practice innovations such as Health Information Technology (HIT) and
Electronic Health Records (EHR). Nurses must be motivated and willing to utilise IT for the advancement of
science and nursing practice. It is therefore pivotal that nursing education equips nurses with the necessary
knowledge, skills and competencies to utilise IT effectively and efficiently.

Public and private healthcare institutions in South Africa have incorporated IT in varying degrees from
computerised medical equipment, automated systems for admissions and stock controls to EHR. Nursing
forms a major component of the healthcare sector. The effective and efficient utilisation of IT is dependent
on nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and facilitating conditions. Therefore, nursing institutions must be
challenged to include IT education as part of nursing programmes .
Nursing Education Institutions (NEIs) in South Africa are integrating IT into nursing programmes in order to
prepare student nurses to meet the demands of a contemporary healthcare industry. While public NEIs lag
behind, private NEIs are committing to adopting and implementing best practices from abroad with the aim
to create dynamic, highly competent, evidence-based nurse practitioners who are able to function
competently in IT-driven healthcare systems.

IT is a powerful and valuable tool for supporting learning. IT integration into the nursing curriculum provides
innovative teaching and learning strategies to actively engage the students in the learning process. One of
the main private NEIs in the country has taken active steps to integrate IT into nursing programs, ensuring
ample opportunities for exposure to and experience in IT. Both nurse academics and student nurses are
expected and compelled to utilise IT in teaching and learning. All new students registered for any of the
nursing programmes at the private NEI receive a mandatory short course on computer and research literacy
to assist with programme requirements.

There are numerous benefits to IT, but challenges are also a reality. Developing countries often face
challenges related to technological, financial, and organisational factors. Lack of infrastructure, financial
constraints, poor quality hardware and software can lead to frustration, impaired learning and resistance to
IT in nursing education. Threats related to cyber viruses and malware attacks plague individuals’ willingness
to utilise IT. Inadequate training and supervision in IT can cause student nurses to feel overwhelmed by the
“information overload”. Cybersafety, plagiarism, IT accountability and responsibility are non-negotiable in IT.
A study conducted in South Africa highlighted the lack of accountability and the unethical use of social media
by student nurse. Private and sensitive information may be posted and shared without consent, thereby
breeching individuals’ rights to privacy and confidentiality, exposing the healthcare practitioner and
institution to litigation. Negative attitudes and challenges can threaten acceptance, adoption and effective
utilisation of IT.
There is no shying away from IT in this digital era. In order to make IT more attractive and acceptable to
student nurses, it is vital to gain a better understanding of their perspectives on IT in nursing education.
https://opennursingjournal.com/VOLUME/14/PAGE/18/#:~:text=Information%20Technology%20in
%20Nursing%20Education%3A%20Perspectives%20of%20Student%20Nurses

Use of Digital Educational Technologies among Nursing Students and Teachers: An Exploratory Study

Digital educational technologies (DET) have been used increasingly in recent years due to technological
evolution. It implies profound changes in teaching practices with consequences in the teaching-learning
process. The use of platforms not only for providing academic content, but also for distance learning,
have a great impact on both teachers and students: in the format of the contents that are made
available, in the language used, class duration, time management, methods and hours of study, and in
communication strategies. The recent public health pandemic emphasized the need for digital
technologies use to maintain activity with social distance. In this context, DET represents an added value
since they increase the interactivity and promote additional space for knowledge construction. DET can
be used in an asynchronous or a synchronous way. When used in its asynchronous form, it offers as
added benefits: the possibility of a flexible schedule, the availability of quality material at low cost, and
the potential to reach a high number of students without geographical limits. However, issues on
humanization of education and knowledge systematization are raised and, additionally, although DETs
offer a wide range of possibilities, they do not guarantee learning quality. Still, there is some reluctance
in its use, particularly by teachers, as DETs break with traditional education, placing the emphasis on the
student as the protagonist of the teaching-learning process.

As technology evolves, it has been integrated into different areas where education is included. Having
this in mind, DET can be defined as the use of technological resources to improve teaching and learning,
promote educational development and access to data and material. It implies the use of virtual
scenarios, online platforms, and digital resources, among others. Historically, educational sciences have
used DET as a resource to improve teaching since the 80s, but in nursing its use is more recent. Benefits
can be pointed out from its use, such as improved interaction and content integration, easy access,
more dynamism and interaction with students outside a physical school space. However, constrains can
also be pointed to, namely financial (adopting state-of-the-art technology can be expensive) and
personal (teachers may be reticent to change traditional educational methods). It is not integrated in
any theory of learning, but it fits a diverse theoretical framework. A major element of this theoretical
frameworks is socio-constructivism that underlines the role of social processes in individuals’ learning.
Social constructivism-based theory understands learning as a process that occurs through supportive
collaboration with other people and leads to knowledge and evolution.

In nursing, the use of DET is seen as a resource that is complementary to traditional teaching with
increasing use and good results such as enhanced nursing students’ problem-solving skills. An example
of the use of DET with other educational strategies is its use combined with case studies improving its
benefits. However, Chavaglia et al. pointed to the need for greater diversification in the use of DET. In
their study with undergraduate nursing students, they concluded that digital power point presentations,
email and a google search engine were the predominant digital tools used by students.

A link between the use of DET, nursing education and sustainability is also found in the literature.
Education in sustainable development is recognized as important particularly in health professions such
as nursing. The use of DET offers an opportunity to reinforce this link since DET are sustainable and can
be applied with low environmental impact. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8541222/