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Human-Technology Integration in Nursing practice has evolved the scope of contemporary care delivery. During clinical practice, I have encountered the consistent utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in recording client health history and improving the workload for caregivers. Nonetheless, there is an apparent need to improve enumerable factors inhibiting the systemic performance of EHRs related to patient assessment, documentation, and care coordination.
Health coordinators should improve the interoperability of the EHR system. In context, the main goal of the EHRs should be to foster seamless interaction with other human technologies to reinforce coordinated patient care across the globe. Nonetheless, current medical records exist in several formats that require sophisticated software for evaluation. Also, most nurses lack the EHRs to evaluate data as information streams in time. Thus, Health stakeholders should streamline EHRs to facilitate timely and secure data sharing.
Health Stakeholders should improve the security of EHRs. Human-Technology integration in Nursing Practice is constantly susceptible to security and privacy external threats. For instance, in the last decade, the American health industry has encountered several unanticipated data breaches. Similarly, EHRs are uniquely vulnerable to external attacks including cybercrime. In this regard, EHR developers should streamline counter-attack security measures to safeguard the documentation of health records.
EHR developers should integrate the system with Telehealth. Currently, the concept of remote healthcare has become the new normal, especially after the coronavirus pandemic’s adverse impact on the healthcare industry. In this regard EHR developers should prioritize the integration of Telehealth with EHRs to reinforce safe information documentation and client virtual checkups. Also, EHR developers can streamline automated tools to substitute the manual processing that triggers burnout and subsequent nursing staff turnover. Consequently, the above improvements will stimulate improved patient care access and holistic care coverage. Also, EHRs would improve the outlook of euthanasia in hospitals and patient and familial understanding of intended care objectives.
In designing a replacement for human-technology integration in Nursing Practice; a PDSA plan is the optimal approach. The PDSA plan is a vital quality improvement technique because it constitutes a quadruple-based intervention strategy. In context, the four-step intervention process entails planning, doing/taking action, studying, and acting. The PDSA quality improvement framework is particularly significant because of the comprehensive segments involved in each phase of care intervention. For instance, the planning stage entails segments involving recruiting a team, formulating an aim statement, describing the problem, and evaluating potential alternatives. In retrospect, the following processes save time in evaluating the impact of a proposed intervention and the probability of impacting sustainable changes. Also, the approach allows nurses to observe results and prioritize essential changes. A Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is also a vital quality improvement technique. However, FMEA follows the sole principle of eliminating potential failures. Thus, a PDSA is the optimal quality improvement technique since it reinforces comprehensive experimentation of suitable interventions and potential risk factors. Thus the PDS framework aligns with the central goal of human technology integration in nursing practice.
The proposed technology (EHRs) suggested improvements are significant in contemporary care settings. First, the improvements ease nurse access to patient health records. Therefore the improvements alleviate subsequent medical errors affiliated with delayed interventions. Also, the improvements stimulate patient-nurse healthy relationships. For instance, the implementation of the suggested improvements will encourage continuous patient education on the use of EHRs. Furthermore, the improvements in EHRs will heighten patient monitoring and reduce paperwork. For instance, health practitioners who integrate EHRs with Telehealth will receive adequate information on a patient’s vitals including oxygen levels and respiratory rates.