Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates technology in managing healthcare information. Patients’ safety in healthcare is crucial as it protects the privacy and confidentiality of patients and promotes the recovery of patients during care delivery (Farokhzadian et al., 2020). By incorporating nursing informatics in healthcare, patients’ information remains safe, avoiding the loss of important data. There are wide areas of applying nursing informatics. One of the ways how nursing informatics is applied in healthcare is by keeping patients’ information through electronic health records. This makes it easy for patients and healthcare providers to share crucial healthcare information. Moreover, it is possible to use nursing informatics to develop and enforce privacy policies according to the ethics and regulations (Moore et al., 2020). Automated alerts used to prevent medical errors are another way of using nursing informatics in the healthcare field. Overall, healthcare and IT professionals’ communication becomes easier by using nursing informatics. Nursing informatics aligns with technology. To put nursing informatics in place, technology plays a major role. To achieve the goal of nursing informatics, the application of technology is evident through the use of computers and other devices in healthcare.
Nursing informatics is more than data collection and analysis in healthcare today. Healthcare professionals use nursing informatics in diverse ways. Even though the primary function of electronic health records refers to collecting and analyzing data, additionally, they help facilitate communication between healthcare providers and their patients (Kaihlanen et al., 2021). For instance, patients can easily access their information from home through personal portals. Furthermore, when patients visit a different care provider, obtaining their medical history is easier. Moreover, it becomes easier for employers to track how their employees have been reporting on their work by checking the time when they logged in to the system. The use of barcoded drug administration does not involve data collection and analysis but is a very useful tool to avoid medical errors. Therefore, apart from involving data collection and analysis, nursing informatics has a wide range of other applications in healthcare.
Project management in healthcare is a process that improves the functioning of healthcare facilities. Project managers have a major role in healthcare. In this field, they are involved in distributing duties between various healthcare providers, the allocation of resources for various projects in healthcare, and finding areas in healthcare that need improvement. Moreover, project managers govern how healthcare projects are run. Therefore, they play a major role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery.
The incorporation of technology promotes project management. Incorporating technology in project management enhances communication and collaboration between various healthcare teams (Santos et al., 2020). Additionally, various project management software has been developed, which aids in centralizing documents, working on schedules, and budget planning. These applications show the alignment of project management with technology.
Project management aligns with everyday practice and processes. People have different projects that they conduct every day, which requires proper management. This may not necessarily require the management of many people. For example, individuals conduct projects that need the creation of schedules, the formation of budgets, and setting time to evaluate how specific projects are going.
Project management is an organizational framework and a thought process. An organizational framework aligns product and service flow through companies (Kusmantini et al., 2021). Project management involves developing a framework on how to accomplish a specific task, by whom, and within what time. For this framework to be developed appropriately, project managers and other stakeholders come together to share their thoughts on achieving their goals in a project. Without a framework and a plan, it would be impossible to achieve a project’s goal.
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