Importance of Nurses Involvement in Implementation of HIT

Importance of Nurses Involvement in Implementation of HIT

Introduction

According to the Royal College of Nursing, the purpose of nursing encompasses several aspects that give a holistic insight into the nursing profession. These include promoting and maintaining health, caring for individuals with compromised health, assisting recovery, facilitating independence, meeting needs and improving well being. Furthermore, the practice of nursing maintains specific prerequisites, among which education and knowledge of applying learned concepts is vital. Nursing skills must aptly provide direct patient care. Nurses must possess a portfolio of numerous skills including leadership skills, experience, empowering patients, communication skills, teamwork and compassion (Royal College of Nursing p.11). SDLC approach involves several stages like system analysis, system design, programming and testing, implementation and maintenance. So it is necessary to involve nurses in all stages.

Discussion

Nurses play a vital role in health care development. So there involvement is essential in each and every step that is related to the provision of quality health services to the patients. The systems development life cycle is a reliable approach for the development of software. As the fast going technological era, everything is shrinking with more effective use. Similarly the health care scenario is an area which demands the alterations on continuous basis. The organizations which involve all the team members in planning of policies and their implementation are progressing more as compare to the organizations who do not involve all the health care providers. Importance of a nurse cannot be neglected because they are the immediate care providers. Before the interaction with a physician the patient first interact with the nurse. And after the physician diagnose and prescribe the medication, nurses are responsible from administration of a medicine till the record keeping (Prijatelj, 2007). In recent era the System development Life Cycle is being ...