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Nurses have historically been advocates for
quality patient-centered health care. They are no strangers to the concerns of
health care cost to the consumers, as well as , to the providers. In this changing
world of health care, who better than the Professional Nurse to assist with the management
of health care systems.
The needs of a successful health care delivery system is dependent on its ability to
integrate information between services, demonstrating quality care while evaluating
process, and cost. A Professional Nurse specializing in Systems Management brings the clinical
expertise of direct patient care, organizational design, program planning,
evaluation, and informatics.
Informatics has been defined as the combination of information technology with information
sciences. Nurses have always adapted to the use of new technologies introduced at
the bedside to evaluate physiological systems. Now the epigenesis of Nursing Informatics has taken
nurses to the realm of analyzing, designing, and implementing information systems to
enhance quality of care, assist in cost containment, and facilitate accountability.
Consumer health has become an added
skill to nursing informatics to enhance delivery of health care education to
consumers. The need for up-to-date treatment modalities, practice guidelines and
linkages to outside resources become an integral part of a health care
delivery systems.
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