Enhancing Patient Care and Nursing Practice Through Computer Applications in Healthcare

Abstract

The creation and assessment of programs, instruments, procedures,and frameworks that help nurses manage patient data or support theirnursing practice is known as nursing informatics. Nurses may obtain vitalinformation about patients’ health and treatment plans from electronic health records in a timely manner thanks to computers. A computerbased patient record, or CPR, is an electronic patient record housed in a system created especially to assist users by offering alarms, reminders, clinical decision support systems, links to medical information, and other resources in addition to comprehensive and accurate data accessible. Computers are utilized for assessment, patient monitoring, documentation, telemedicine, and electronic medical records in both clinical and community settings. The most practical form of clinical information has been made available to hospitals through the use of computer systems. Nursing is the centre of information flow in all kinds of healthcare organizations, so advances in the science and technology of nursing informatics will improve the information available to nurses for clinical practice, management, research, and education, as well as support their role as communicators. Therefore, one of the most crucial parts of enhancing the health care delivery system is the use of computer programs for nursing practice and patient care delivery.

How to cite this article:
Upadhyay K. Enhancing Patient Care and Nursing Practice Through Computer Applications in
Healthcare. Ind J Holist Nurs. 2023;14(2):1-11.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2348.2133.202303