The American Nurses Association (ANA) identified the need of incorporating nursing informatics as a discipline of nursing in 1992 (Sewell, …show more content…
Sewell states that “information literacy, knowledge generation, and knowledge dissemination activities are integral parts of all nursing roles” (Sewell, 2016, 189). TMC library for example is a powerful tool to perform evidence-based nursing research. For example: CINAHL is an excellent source for nursing topics, Medline/PubMed is great for healthcare disciplines, Cochrane Library excellent for nursing students and research, etc. Therefore, I think that informatics should be implemented during the early stages of nursing in-order to save time writing documents and perhaps a more advanced form of informatics during the BSN …show more content…
For example, International Classification Diseases (ICDs); Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM); Current Procedural Terminology (CPT); International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF); Outcome and Assessment Information (OASIS); North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International (NANDA-I); Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC); and Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC); which are the most commonly used and has helped health care workers to communicate with an specific kind of language or terminology. NANDA-I is an amazing tool for nurses to communicate and to achieve outcomes about the patient’s clinical