Nursing Informatics 453x Assessment #1 Foundations Of Health Care Informatics

This study source was downloaded by 100000859819779 from CourseHero.com on 02-15-2023 14:05:17 GMT -06:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/184661730/NI-Assessment-1docx/ UWM COLLEGE OF NURSING FLEX RN-BSN-NURSING ASSESSMENT COVER PAGEKatie KruegerNursing Informatics 453XAssessment #1 Foundations of Health Care Informatics September 1, 2022Academic honesty statement:By submitting this paper for grading I am certifying that it is entirely my own work, with any words and/or ideas from other sources properly cited in the text of the paper and in the final reference list.Students typed signature: Katie Krueger1This study source was downloaded by 100000859819779 from CourseHero.com on 02-15-2023 14:05:17 GMT -06:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/184661730/NI-Assessment-1docx/Importance of Informatics Competencies in Nursing and Health Professional PracticeNurses have always been one to gather data and record it to paper charts which gradually turned into a persons hard copy of their health records. Computers were slowly introduced where health records were then recorded there and nursing informatics was created (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2022). Nursing informatic pioneers shaped how computers were used in healthcare and nurses became more in different approaches to how computers were to be used. In the 1990s, the ANA recognized nursing informatics as a specialty and published scopes and standards of practice as they had for nursing. Nursing informatics is important to our field of