Discuss ways that nursing informatics could be applied to all areas of professional nursing practice, including clinical practice, administration, education, and research. Provide examples of each. What do you see as the biggest significance of nursing informatics, and why?

Book: (If needed)

McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett.

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Nursing informatics is one of the aspects that has contributed towards the improvement of the health sector in most countries. It has made it easier to manage workflows in the health sector and easier access to health records, thus ensuring good patient outcomes (McGonigle, 2018). Nursing informatics has been of importance and is applied to many professional nursing practices such as clinical practice, administration, education, and research. First, nursing informatics is applied to clinical practice in several ways. It is used in making better clinical policies by enhancing easier access to data and information that is used in making changes and policies that help to ensure the success of the clinical care process. Nursing informatics provides proper clinical workflows by completing the information stored electronically accessible to all nurses and creating a communication platform between clinicians. Nursing informatics is also applied to administration in nursing in several ways.

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