Post a description of experiences or observations about how nurse informaticists and data or technology specialists interact with other professionals within your healthcare organization. Suggest at least one strategy on how these interactions might be improved

Interaction between Nurse Informaticists and Other Specialists

Nursing is a profession that collaborates with other healthcare professionals. Nurses must collaborate with informatics specialists to enhance the efficiency of service delivery (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). This will result in improved quality of healthcare services. Similarly, patient care involves interprofessional collaboration between physicians, nurses, laboratory technologists, radiologists, and coders.

For instance, the nurse informaticist helps develop electronic medical records in my current healthcare organization. The current documentation system we are using in our organization is Meditech. However, recently, a switch was made to Epic. Nurse informaticists are building this new system for all departments, such as psychiatry, inpatient, outpatient, and pediatrics. Essentially, nurse informaticists help with any problems that may be encountered. In addition, the communication between the nurse informaticist and other healthcare professionals is professional. Significantly, a nurse informaticist helps with data entry and interpretation. This new system is, on the other hand, not user-friendly. Consequently, nurses were not included in the development of the system.

Improving Interactions between Nurse Informaticists and Other Healthcare Professionals

The best way to ensure the interactions between nurse informaticists and other healthcare professionals is by providing training. Training healthcare professionals on the new system will ensure they know how to use it, thereby improving communication between nurse informaticists and other healthcare professionals. Training nurses will also facilitate their buy-in of the new emerging technology (Barchielli et al., 2021). Subsequently, the emergence of nursing informatics has improved collaborative interactions between healthcare professionals. This has also enhanced healthcare professionals regarding healthcare delivery and reduced healthcare costs as well (Wang et al., 2018). Lastly, technological advancements will improve service delivery and efficiency of healthcare services.

References

Barchielli, C., Marullo, C., Bonciani, M., & Vainieri, M. (2021). Nurses and accepting innovations in technology-intensive contexts: The need for tailored management strategies. BMC Health Services Research, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06628-5