Health Care Informatics: As government programmes support the establishment of uniform electronic health records, the existing random and uneven use of paper records and computers to document, store, and retrieve patient care information is undergoing tremendous change.
An electronic health record is a computerised record of all of an individual’s health information that can be accessed electronically by a variety of health care providers.
Nursing Informatics/ Information Management:
It is a nursing specialty that combines nursing science, computer science, and information science to identify, gather, analyse, and manage data and information to assist nursing administration, research, and knowledge advancement. Nursing informatics is the study of the organisation and processing of nursing information in order to make clinical decisions and to construct support systems.
Society and health care must constantly evolve. As a result, health care faces numerous obstacles, including rising costs, a shortage of specialists, an ageing population, the introduction of new technology, and access issues. The need for collaborative, innovative clinical practitioners to serve as healthcare leaders has never been greater. Advanced nursing practise nurses are well placed to respond to the evolution of health care. Advanced nursing, in particular, plays an important role in satisfying health requirements. By increasing nursing knowledge, developing the nursing profession, and contributing to a long-term and effective health-care system.
Nursing Practise Characteristics:
In advanced nursing practise, nurses build on their knowledge in a specialty field by integrating and consistently demonstrating the following qualities and characteristics:
- Provision of effective and efficient care provided with a high degree of autonomy.
- Leadership and change-initiation to improve client, organisational, and system outcomes.
- Deliberate, purposeful, and integrated application of in-depth nursing knowledge, research, and clinical skills.
- Depth and breadth of knowledge that relies on a diverse variety of solutions to fulfil clients’ needs and increase access to and quality of care.
- Ability to explain and apply nursing practice’s theoretical, empirical, ethical, and experiential foundations.
- Understanding, creation, and distribution of evidence-based nursing knowledge.
- Capability to create or participate in programme planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation to satisfy client requirements and support nursing practise.
- Advanced judgement and decision-making abilities. Critical examination of and influence on health policy.
Scope in Nursing Practices:
- Nursing is accountable for developing and distributing clear definitions of the responsibility’s nurses play and the scope of practise of the profession. National professional organisations are responsible for defining nursing and nurses’ roles in a way that is consistent with approved worldwide definitions defined by the worldwide Council of Nurses while also being relevant to their country’s health care needs.
- While nurses hold main responsibility for defining, monitoring, and regularly evaluating responsibilities and scope of practise through professional, labour relations, and regulatory authorities, the perspectives of others in society should be sought and considered when defining scope of practise.
- The scope of practise includes direct care giving and evaluation of its impact, advocating for patients and health, supervising and delegating to others, leading, managing, teaching, conducting research, and developing health policy for health care systems.
- Furthermore, because the scope of practise is dynamic and sensitive to health requirements, knowledge growth, and technological improvements, it must be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that it is compatible with current health needs and supports improved health outcomes.
- National nurses’ organisations (NNAs) must lobby for legislation that respects the distinct and autonomous nature of nursing practise, including a specified scope of practise.
Conclusion:
Each nurse must select his or her own scope of practise. To identify one’s scope of practise, a nurse must first grasp the Nurse Practise Act and then evaluate his or her own changing set of competences. With increased experience and education, a nurse’s scope of practise will evolve. Individual nurses, nurse managers, nurse executives, and educators, as well as regulatory agencies and professional organisations, share the requirement and responsibility of determining scope of practise. The purpose of this article is to offer nurses with information and resources to help them determine their scope of practise.
The process of building a Professional Practise Framework for the Calgary Health Region required a significant amount of time and effort from a large number of nurses. The determination to authentically reflect nurses’ terminology in building the framework was critical to defining professional practise in a way that supported regional nurses’ ownership of the final result. It will now be necessary to investigate the extent to which the development of this framework assists nurses in achieving enhanced purpose and striving for higher levels of excellence in their profession. It is believed that the establishment of a clear paradigm to guide practise will eventually help nurses feel proud of their profession and recognise their enormous contribution.