Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper
HCS/482 » Health Care Informatics
November 25, 2014
Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process
Healthcare informatics is an idiom that refers to the use of information technology in the healthcare field. Several software applications are used in healthcare informatics mostly used are computers. The wide-ranging uses of healthcare informatics include but are not limited to electronic record keeping, information distribution, data observation, data investigation, and record keeping. Medical records are more readily accessible due to healthcare informatics. In the past health care medical records were written on paper and sometimes carbon copied paper. When patients went to the doctor their medical records were ordered and sent via courier to various departments. Healthcare informatics has improved patient care by providing clear legible computerized charting verses the illegible poorly written, unorganized charting health care providers were use to.
The Nursing Process
According to Definition: Nursing Process (2004), The Nursing process is defined as “a five-part systematic decision-making method focusing on identifying and treating responses of individuals or groups to actual or potential alterations in health”. The Nursing process includes assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation”. The nursing process is an organized, cogent, method of providing nursing care so that the needs of the patient are effectively and comprehensively met.
Comparison of the Strategic Planning Process with the Nursing Process
Heba & Czar, 2013, define Strategic Planning as “the development of a comprehensive, long-range plan for guiding the activities and operations of an organization” (p.588). According to (Freeman, 2008) strategic planning is “ the process of determining where the co-op is going over coming years, how it will get there