Clinical Nursing Information System

In our advanced and fast paced world today, we nurses, even though in our country is not yet that advanced must have at least a basic background regarding computers and the technology they are contributing in our daily lives as this is helpful with our field. Now, technology has reached hospitals in order to help make our jobs more efficient and less time consuming. Here are common computer related topics that we must be familiar with.


Computer input devices are any peripheral computer hardware equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system like a computer. Computer output devices are any piece of computer hardware equipment used to communicate the results of data processing carried out by an information processing system like a computer to the outside world. Storage devices are used to record information, files and data. It can process information and holds information.
In this video are examples of input devices, output devices and storage devices.

Software is a general term for the various kinds of programs used to operate computers and related devices. Software is a generic term for programs that are used by computers and other products that contain logic circuitry (i.e., embedded systems). In a broader sense it can also refer to all information (i.e., both programs and data) in electronic form, and it can provide a distinction from hardware, which refers to media and systems on which software can exist and be used. Examples are Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, computer games, AutoCAD, photo editing softwares, etc.

Hardware is describes the physical aspects of computers and related devices. Examples are CPU, monitor, hard drive, disk drive, printers, keyboard, mouse, etc.

Computer information system are information systems that are implemented within an organization for the purpose of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of that organization.

Management information system is a system that provides information needed to manage organizations effectively. Regarded to be a subset of the overall internal controls procedures in a business, which cover the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures used by management accountants to solve business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy. Used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making, e.g. decision support systems, expert systems, and executive information systems.

In hospital information, also called clinical information system is a comprehensive integrated system designed to manage the administrative, financial and clinical aspects of a hospital. Encompasses paper-based information processing as we as data processing machines. Thus having east access to patient data, to generate varied records including classification based on demographics.

In Philippine nursing information practices, information technology is useful in the hospital as this gives the doctors and nurses alike the access of information on each patient regarding their diagnosis, medication needed and current status of their health. Like before giving the medication, using a bar code read to read the patient's hospital bracelet to ensure identification and medication being given.

To promote security of health to the society, information is the key. By communicating to our clients regarding current health issues through internet or if they do not have such technologies in their area, we can go to the said area and bring our equipment and present to them proper techniques regarding health via PowerPoint presentation using projector or make a DVD educational presentation and play to each household and making copies and give to people or to health care workers in the area and let them present it.

Clinical information system in nursing informatics are integration of various systems that manage clinical data from a variety of healthcare environments, and made available in a timely and orderly fashion to aid nurses in improving patient care.

I can balance my technical skills and taking care of the patient manually, is by being there with the patient. Keeping the human connection as this could also help determine if there are undetected issues not picked up by the computers, like neurological assessment. Physical assessment is still the effective way in discovering neurologic abnormalities diagnosed in the patient. Skill mastery still is important in our practice as nurses.

Ambulatory care system is a medical care delivered on an outpatient basis. These include care to medical conditions that do not require hospital admission and can be managed without the need for hospitalization. Many medical investigations can be performed on an ambulatory basis, including blood tests, X-rays, endoscopy and even biopsy procedures of superficial organs. There are lot of emerging ambulatory care system located within the area such as physician offices which is the most common site for the delivery of ambulatory care. This is less expensive than being admitted in the hospital if your condition is minor.

TeleHealth is defined as the use of telecommunication technologies to provide health care services and access to medical and surgical information for training and educating health care professionals and consumers, to increase awareness and educate the public about health-related issues, and to facilitate medical research across distances. Examples of TeleHealth e-visit. Patients do not have to come into their physician’s office for a routine problem. Instead, they can correspond over the Internet. Patients may even get a prescription for their condition through an e-visit, if a prescription is needed. There are several advantages to using TeleHealth in this way. Routine matters do not tie up a physician’s time, and patients do not need to miss work or arrange for day care in order to get medical advice for minor matters. Also, TeleHealth can be very useful to patients who have chronic conditions. In some instances when someone has a chronic condition that requires consistent monitoring or they are homebound with a stroke, a TeleHealth program allows them to be seen by a specialist. We can have videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, terrestrial communications and wireless communications.


Being a public policy maker, a policy that I can recommend is to let the government know how important the public's health is. To focus more on our health care system and how important each high-end equipment is. If they want to continue to corrupt the people's money, how will they continue to corrupt if the people are dying and the service of the hospitals are poor.  If there are no healthy people, the country will be poor and thus eventually the country won't be able to afford anything without the people.