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Evolving Nurse Roles in Health IT

This document discusses how health information technology systems can impact nurse practitioner workflows. It describes how electronic barcoding and clinical electronic systems can reduce errors and improve decision making but also disrupt flexibility and linear workflows. Specifically, it notes that delays from the computerized provider order entry system in releasing orders can delay effective care plans until the system allows it. Overall, the document argues that health IT implementations need to incorporate communication between physicians and nurses as well as understand the impacts on paper-based systems to better support workflows in healthcare roles and provide high quality care.

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Evolving Nurse Roles in Health IT

This document discusses how health information technology systems can impact nurse practitioner workflows. It describes how electronic barcoding and clinical electronic systems can reduce errors and improve decision making but also disrupt flexibility and linear workflows. Specifically, it notes that delays from the computerized provider order entry system in releasing orders can delay effective care plans until the system allows it. Overall, the document argues that health IT implementations need to incorporate communication between physicians and nurses as well as understand the impacts on paper-based systems to better support workflows in healthcare roles and provide high quality care.

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Nurse practitioner roles diversify in the profession from patient assessment, diagnosis, testing,

interpreting results and developing care plan therapy. Besides, they take vital assigned duties to
assist physicians and doctors to achieve a common goal of establishing high-quality care and
treatment to maintain patient safety in health care. Nurses exercise ethical guidelines and
standards in the profession to provide holistic care with all their efforts using intra and inter-
personal evidence-based practice skills and knowledge gained in practice performance. In
different health care work-settings, nurse roles and responsibilities face various workflow issues
affecting them directly or indirectly. This essay reflects the integration of advanced health
information technology systems that critically impact the nursing work settings.

Health information technology system (HITS) is an electronic barcoding approach that promotes
converge of patient information in a commonly accessible data unit thus simplicity inpatient
administration. In health organization, the clinical electronic system reduces medication errors,
improve clinical decision making through alerts and reminders. Moreover, the system weighs out
nurse performance quality, enhances large population patient outreach and analyzes clinical data
and information with a purpose to promote patient safety and quality in care attendance. The
HITS implementation reflects quality performance, increased care standards, and time-saving,
but has drawbacks that limit its reliability by nurses. First, nurse flexibility and linearity in the
workflow are reduced and disrupted. In a case where pharmacist delays to verify an order, this
delays an effective care plan until the system releases that specific order. Besides, practitioner
flexibility may be restricted to monitor and ensure a smooth operation of the specific health IT
system to ensure no compromise inpatient care, but this changes the workflow system of that
nurse. Second, the HIT system limits steps of professional-patient interaction thus critical and
quick care settings of care plan delays as the patient continue to suffer from nurse presence. The
delayed care administering arises due to the Computer Provider Order Entry (CPOE).

Health IT such as CPOE and Barcoding system implementation should incorporate physician-
nurse communication as well as the impacts of paper-based order entry with visual cues and
context to promote workflow understanding in health care roles. The CPOE used by physician
relieve bulky duty roles assigned to nurses but when in timely release to enable the flow of
information and medication process. Quick adoption of the electronic prescribing system by all
care providers enables smooth and effective workflow in evidence-based practice. Nurse
practitioners should reflect and act to the critical evidence-based care practice/process in a work
setting that needs quick intervention workflow. When implementing health IT policy, care
providers should coordinate and communicate when using advanced technology as a tool thus
interact personal knowledge and skill with artificial intelligence machines to provide high-
quality care and patient safety.

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