Informatics Skills
In any healthcare facility, nurses and nursing, in general, have a wide range of activities. These activities include direct patient care, educating the patients on the possible ways of improving their health status, delivering quality care to the patients, and most importantly, being leaders in their endeavors. Nursing informatics thus represents the core competencies for care providers with an objective of obtaining the quality care to the patients. Developing informatics skills is a procedure which encompasses hard work. I anticipate good opportunities of improved care through the development of my informatics skills via the technical analysis for effectiveness and safety of care delivery (Nagle et al, 2014). Technology has a vast variety of health care benefits and among them is the facilitation of the transfer of information to a patient and the caregivers. In multidisciplinary team members, nurses play a pivotal role in working at the forefront of patient care. They communicate various plans with these teams and the modes of communication differ from verbal communication to pictorials and videos.
Quality communication methods mean quality care by minimizing medical errors and hence improved patient safety. Informatics skills reduce, enhance communication, reduces workload, and improves the workflow and hence achieving quality care delivery (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2014). A contemporary example is my current working situation. I use the old office landline phones for communication. Nevertheless, many of the hospital portals are widely expected to be applied in communication and modern smartphones. The current informatics skills I am developing would enable me to integrate the use of HER and HIT in order to provide safe and effective care. After the completion of the TANIC assessment, my competencies are rated as basic and information literacy as per the TIGER competencies. The TANIC self-assessment revealed that I am competent in terms of the informatics skills. These skills will play important roles wherever informatics skills are applicable. I also seek to improve on my areas of weaknesses and I look forward to expanding my career via the guidance the acquired informatics skills.