NR 706 Week 1: Nursing Informatics and Advanced Nursing Practice

Derived from your healthcare experience, describe the relationships among computer science,

information science, and nursing science from an advanced nursing practice perspective.

Nursing Informatics integrates the science of nursing with computer science, information

science and analytical sciences to help identify, explain, manage and communicate data,

information and knowledge in nursing practice. The most important reasons for

implementing informatics into nursing practice is to create an ease for accessing patient care

information and to provide continuity of care for the patient while allowing

interprofessional collaboration for better decision-making (HIMSS, 2019). The Electronic

Medical Record (EMR) or Electronic Health Record (EHR) has been noted to improve

quality, safety, and efficiency while helping engage patients and families in their healthcare

decision-making. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act implemented mandates on

all public and private healthcare providers to adopt EMR by January 1, 2014 or they would

lose Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements (Prasad, 2014).