About Nursing Informatics

Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. It helps to retrieve, store and acquire more information such as a patient’s records in a secured manner. This makes the patients to feel safer with their records. It stores information about various healthcare providers who get collaborated with hospitals and other health care organizations. Nurse informaticists play key roles in the development and implementation of health care information systems, including clinical documentation and reports, computerized practitioner order entry, decision support and electronic health records.