Thank you for your detailed and informative post. As I read your post, I instantly could visualize the concerns present both with your community-based agency and the one in which we work. Our electronic health record system is user-friendly but needs to be more intuitive. The agency would benefit from an intuitive approach of “if this, then that.” I can also see where, within the noting system, the team members could either check a specific box or apply some flag that could immediately alert any tied team members to the case. I have often thought something like this would also be helpful for our team. McGonigle and Mastrian’s representation of silos is a thing of the past. They have not found themselves engaged in the difficult work of community-based mental health and substance abuse services (2022). Coordinating care is often just as difficult now as years prior. They usually require a different action for each communication that needs to be made instead of direct alerts or push notifications. As such, I would agree with your suggestions for improved communication through intelligent technology.
Communication is key to safe and effective patient care and the continued teamwork of the interdisciplinary team (Zajac et al., 2021). In your scenario, it’s clear that you present a multidisciplinary team with a similar end goal but different frameworks of practice to get there. Quick, clear, and consistent communication is instrumental to the team’s success. Informatics should be able to provide the framework by which this process can occur. As you present in Nagle et al., information systems can and should be used to keep communication between teams open and practical (2017).
Thank you for your discussion post. It is a pleasure to be in a course with such talented nurses, and I look forward to the opportunity to continue to learn together NURS-6051N Module 1: Week 1: Discussion THE APPLICATION OF DATA TO PROBLEM-SOLVING.
References
Nagle, L., Sermeus, W., & Junger, A. (2017). Evolving Role of the Nursing Informatics Specialist. In J. Murphy, W. Goosen, & P. Weber (Eds.), Forecasting Competencies for Nurses in the Future of Connected Health (212-221). Clifton, VA: IMIA and IOS Press. Retrieved November 30, 2022, from https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_4A0FEA56B8CB.P001/REFLinks to an external site.
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