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Informatics literacy pertains to the ability to find and evaluate sources of information. In the nursing practice, being literate in information would mean that nurses and other professionals can provide evidence-based practice, and further make clinical decisions based on research. Furthermore, practicing information literacy at the collegiate level would enable student nurses to communicate the data of patients accurately and effectively to other healthcare team members in the future. Considering these impacts of information literacy, student nurses will become more competent in the nursing field when delivering care to their patients.

Submitted by: Carlos, Jillian Marie L.
BSN 3-1

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Informatics literacy means being information smart. It entails being able to discover, assess, and utilize information of all kinds. It also entails being aware of when you require information, where to look for it, and how to assess and use it to the everyday tasks as a nurse or a healthcare practitioner. In order to provide high-quality, patient-centered care and reduce risks and costs, healthcare providers must be literate in terms of basic nursing informatics because this will enhance their knowledge and skills in providing adequate, accurate, and advanced medical care in the healthcare setting. Moreover, applying the topic of nursing informatics literacy in the curriculum enables student nurses to become more self-directed, take on more responsibility for their own learning, and broaden their research in the healthcare system.

Submitted by: Cristine Pearl D. Mansano
BSN 3-1

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Nursing informatics is the integration of data, information, and knowledge to help patients, nurses, and other providers make decisions in all roles and settings. This assistance is provided by information structures, information processes, and information technology. Through informatics, nurses use information literacy in conjunction with evidence-based practice, or EBP, to assist patients in making sound clinical decisions based on the best research as well as their own values and preferences.

Submitted by:
PAYAWAL, Ranela Louisse B.
BSN 3-1

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The Rise of Nursing Informatics in the Philippines mirrors the reality of our Healthcare- a bright future slowed by the unresolved issues of the system. In nursing practice, being short-staffed means an increased workload, and this greatly affects the delivery of care to the patient as observed in the current situation among the majority of our hospitals. Nursing Informatics should be embraced as an opportunity and a tool by the Healthcare System in maximizing the current resources we have. Thus, it should not be merely applied in the BSN curriculum but should be widely recognized in Clinical practice as a major discipline that requires loads, seminars, and training.

Submitted by:
DELA CRUZ, Jeanell C.
BSN 3-1

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Figure 1. Features of Electronic Health Record (Gupta, 2022) - Retrieved from https://appinventiv.com/blog/ehr-software-development/

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Due to the natural evolution of man and technology, nurses are forced to develop computer skills that will render traditional practices much more effective in the field, allowing compliance with the standards set by modern society. Since the nursing profession is composed of a constant process of analyzing and solving complex problems associated with healthcare, systems thinking is the most appropriate topic to highlight. Such system-based problem-solving approach showcases the organized processing of data and information that enables nurses to deliver efficient and quality healthcare. One example of system thinking used in healthcare is the electronic health record (EHR). It aims to improve and develop a structure that provides a deeper understanding of how data should be collected, stored, organized, and shared in a way that will induce significant levels of efficiency and effectiveness, saving precious time in an already time-hectic profession wherein every second counts.

Submitted by: ORIBIADA, Margaret Anne C.
BSN 3-1

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Figure 1. Information Literacy. Van Pelt and Opie Library. (n.d.) Retrieved from https://www.mtu.edu/library/instruction/information-literacy/

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Informatics literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed, how to access it, and to evaluate and use that information effectively. Informatics literacy includes not only research skills, but also critical thinking, technical skills, and communication skills. Information and knowledge are essential for nurses to interpret data and make decisions. By applying informatics literacy in nursing practice, this will allow nurses to help patients decide their own healthcare without compromising quality of care. In other words, nurses must have the information-seeking skills necessary to be able to provide quality care and improve patient outcomes.

Submitted by: SIGNAP, Bless Nhevin B.
BSN 3-1

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After understanding the relevance of Digital Literacy in the nursing profession, it is now clear that technological competency allows nurses to seamlessly integrate technology with their acquired knowledge and skills. Although, it is not a simple point and click of the mouse, rather, it is a process of critical thinking, knowledge improvement, information expertise, and application. Thus, to apply digital literacy in the profession, a few online applications may be utilized including telehealth services such as OpenEMR. OpenEMR is a healthcare application that allows healthcare workers, especially nurses, to provide smoother and interactive transactions to numerous clients from a distance. This is beneficial to the hospital, staff, and patients in terms of saved time, effort, and resources.

Submitted by: Noveno, Maria Evanelle R.
BSN 3-1

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"KNOWLEDGE COMPLEXITY"

It is no doubt that knowledge complexity has helped healthcare providers to develop critical thinking in providing care for patients because this complex knowledge drives them to have good reasoning wherein they are aware of how and what essential data they will gather from the patients with the help of technological advancements. Certainly, healthcare providers must have in-depth knowledge and interpretation in order to provide appropriate treatment and management for patients.

However, such measures need to be incorporated such as this “Knowledge Complexity Archetype” that was discussed in the module. Data, information, knowledge, and wisdom are considered the main concepts of knowledge, but to go from information to wisdom, the stated archetype has to be considered. This archetype is helpful especially in the nursing practice because a nurse could have an outstanding performance with his/her interventions if (1) he/she will be able to comprehend the meaning of what he/she is doing and its correlation with one another thereby promoting effectiveness; (2) he/she knows how to self-organize or understand the patterns thereby seeing the bigger picture of the patient’s condition, which will help in long-term planning; and (3) he/she will explore all the opportunities and his/her skills and intentions thereby finding out the purpose of what he/she is doing in the healthcare industry—especially for the patients.

Submitted by: BARTOLOME, Patricia Lorraine SM.
BSN 3-1

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In a health care setting it consist of 3 systems namely the provider system, health care system, and patient system. The provider system it involves with clinic or hospital where physicians and other health professionals provide care and support for patients, including administrative functions and other processes of care. The health care system it talks about clinical programs and centers that are part of a larger organization and last the patient system that the people patients interact with, including their family and friends, community organizations. These systems can be compared as a gear in a machine and for them to work in harmony and produce a positive outcome people behind it  such as the physicians, nursing informaticist, nurses, medical staff etc. they work together that involves analyzing the problem, the applying interventions that are evidence based that solve a problem in a long term run plus it leads to providing better patient-centered care. One of the example that can be encountered using system thinking approach is that a physician who is discharging a female patient with diabetes from a hospital stay related to blood-sugar control helps the patient by making sure she has support in place to follow the care plan, consulting with the patient’s nurse care manager and contacting the patient’s primary care physician to provide a copy of the discharge plan. In conclusion, Systems thinking offers a comprehensive way of anticipating synergies and mitigating negative emergent behaviors, with direct relevance for creating policies that will enhance the quality and service of the 3 systems involve in the medical setting.

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In the nursing profession, there is a lot of different information that is presented to us and as nurses, it is important that we have the critical thinking or the skill and competence to analyze and understand this information as this will help the nurses to better understand the condition of their patient. Information literacy is essential in the nursing practice because this will help them to come up with a nursing care plan or clinical decisions that are based on research and evidence-based practice. Furthermore, practicing information literacy in the nursing profession will reduce errors and promotes patient safety because nurses have the skills to analyze, evaluate, comprehend, and validate which information is correct and which is not that will help them to make sound clinical decision. Therefore, practicing information literacy in the field of nursing is significant as this will help the nurses to have a good outcome in caring for their patients.

Submitted by: SALIM, Ladie Maryanne Roshwell T.
BSN 3-1

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The goal of systems thinking  is for the improvement of system as a whole, meaning it dissects the issue in interrelated parts to see what affect it, get affected by it, or mostly, both. Involved in this systems-based practice are the four major levels of healthcare: the patient, care team, organization and the environment. With these, health care professionals are required to collaborate in order to serve patients quality care that they deserve, while also making it a point the the cost will be minimized. A perfect illustration for this is the reduction of medication errors by helping  nurses manage patients in line and allow them to use their knowledge and skills to improve patient care. Ultimately, the involvement of systems thinking in health care positively impact the quality, efficiency, and cost of individual patient care.

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Information Literacy in Nursing

We are currently living in the Information Age in which there is an abundance of information available to us generally through network platforms such as those found on the internet. However, to properly utilize this wealth of information to solve a particular problem or make a decision, we must be information literate, that is having the ability to recognize, locate, evaluate, use, and communicate information effectively. Nurses are knowledge workers as they gather data when assessing and monitoring the health of their patients, exchange service requests to and receive results from other departments in the hospital, receive and review admission data and discharge summaries, and use information on the latest evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols to guide their interventions and provide quality care. That being said, it is vital for nurses to be information literate to critically evaluate the pertinent data they gather and the information they obtain. Doing so will enable them to  provide safe and accurate information to other members of the health care team, their patients, and their patients’ families.

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With all the information and data available on libraries, media, and the Internet, we must know how to identify which information is valuable, reliable, and from credible sources. We must also understand what to do with the information we have because simply knowing is not enough; we must recognize the issues surrounding it to use it effectively, ethically, and legally. One of the skills that nurses must have is information literacy, especially since they are the ones who interact with patients the most and provide education. Apart from educating patients, they can also use this skill to choose the most suitable available study or research material for implementing evidence-based practice, resulting in more favorable patient outcomes and an EBP based on the patient's values and preferences.

Submitted by:
Clarizze Angeli M. Duco
BSN 3-1

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As nursing informatics had already developed over time, the interpretation and sophistication of nursing knowledge has altered caregivers' thought and decision making but also how them, healthcare providers, document and obtain information utilizing advanced technologies. Knowledge only emphasizes the ideas behind the DIKW theory, which stands for Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Others see it as the cornerstone of information technology and sciences, and it is among the most widely accepted theories in informatics. To put it simply, data creates information, and information, when used in the right context, creates knowledge. Wisdom at that point was knowledge combined with critical thought. Wisdom aids the nurses in recognizing the problem at present and typically decides on nursing activities to be performed by combining every one of these elements in clinical setting, particularly in nursing wherein critical thinking is a crucial skill. When determining decisions and carrying out nursing interventions, wisdom may be described as the application of data, information, as well as knowledge. Thus, one of the essential components of nursing profession is wisdom. Without wisdom, it is impossible to give each patient in a clinical setting the appropriate and individualized healthcare they require. It is the basic foundation of nursing care.

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Systems Thinking and Quality Improvement

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Systems Thinking and Quality improvement can be used as a lens to address most of the concerns in the healthcare setting. These alterations include wrong medications, and procedures, problems in communicating, work overload, short staff and insufficient time with patients, and many more. Through viewing each problem with system thinking, it can help us to view the problem from a much broad perspective as we emphasize the solution to our problem as a whole relationship, and not by parts and not focusing on the error. For instance, one can use the lens of being a systems thinker by whenever there is a drug shortage, the head nurse can collaborate with each of its healthcare team members to list down the drugs that will be affected and order these medications before the shortage. With that, the head nurse can see the whole facts of the scenario and make connections between events, members, and processes involved in the problem.

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Systems thinking emphasizes staff as a safety resource rather than a potential source of problems. This approach allows a person to recognize that people are interrelated, it questions how one thing can affect another and vice versa and what changes should be done to improve the system in order to provide quality care. Medical errors usually occur when there is miscommunication or failure between the system of the care team, patients, organizations, and environments. For a system to function correctly, there must be consistent interaction among all the components of the system.

Submitted By:
Orallo, Aaliyah Nicole A.
BSN 3-1

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Example of systems thinking during insulin over-prescription. Retrieved from Systems Thinking - A New Direction in Healthcare Incident Investigation (2017)

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Upon finishing the second e-module which tackled the digital literacy and the nursing profession, I further understood the importance of computer and information literacy among nurses and the extent of the challenges in propagating nursing informatics in the Philippines. Out of all the topics discussed, the concept of systems thinking stood out the most for me as this has introduced a new and broader perspective in minimizing the probability of medical errors during delivery of patient care. As opposed to root cause analysis which only concerns the individuals who are directly involved in the occurrence of a medical error, systems thinking employs a more holistic approach that require all variables (companies, hospital policies, healthcare team etc.) that may influence patient care to be evaluated and dealt with accordingly in order to promote patient safety. In the nursing practice, systems thinking may be observed by making sure that a nursing intervention is in harmony with the hospital policies, doctor’s order, results and recommendations from other medical departments, pharmaceutical guidelines (if applicable), and environmental and patient condition before carrying it out to a patient. With this approach, the burden of preventing medical errors or being blamed for their occurrence will not be shouldered by the nurse alone; instead, everyone involved in healthcare delivery will meet their responsibilities to lessen the workload of everyone to help achieve the utmost goal of healthcare that is patient safety.

Submitted by:
DOCENA, Hannah G.
BSN 3-1

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Systems Thinking and Quality Improvement is the section of the module on digital literacy and the nursing profession that I found to be most interesting and applicable. It is crucial in nursing because it helps us recognize broader picture issues and prevent medical errors. An example is a medical error; for instance, we can use systems thinking to find a solution by examining the underlying causes or motivations for medication errors. Instead of blaming the nurse, we should look into the matter, evaluate the available data, and comprehend how interconnected the healthcare system's various components are.

Submitted by: SOBREPENA, Princess Nicole D.
BSN 3-1

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Digital literacy is significant in the nursing profession. Together with the integration of informatics literacy, it benefits all nursing activities, especially matters with regards to recording and documentation. Among the topics discussed, systems thinking approaches have been shown to improve the healthcare system thus if applied in nursing practice, it can enhance work processes by resolving the problem just by looking at the systems. For instance, a medical error may be resolved by performing a root cause analysis through systems thinking. It explores the components of the system which are the nurses and healthcare professionals, their interactions, and other factors involved in the process. With this analysis, the cause and origin of medical error will be easily exposed and the recurrence of this error may be prevented by modifying the system where the error had taken place.

Submitted by
MARY PATRICIA B. TRIA
BSN 3-1

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Systems Thinking and Quality Improvement
After reading the e-module on Digital Literacy and the Nursing Profession, the topic that most captivated me is the topic # 4 entitled, System Thinking and Quality Improvement. Nurses can use systems thinking to see how decisions and actions made during caregiving have an overall effect on the results of organizational health. Systems thinking competencies reinforce nurses' roles in safety and quality improvement. The ability to comprehend connections between nursing, the nursing work unit, and organizational goals should be a minimal requirement for nurses using systems thinking and systems-based practice. They are supported in finding solutions to issues that arise at the point of care and are aware of their contributions to identifying inefficiencies within the work unit and operational flaws. The ability to respond to ongoing or anticipated quality and safety issues is a must for nurses. They need to be active participants in monitoring, confessing to, reporting, investigating, and resolving near misses, errors, and systems breakdowns affecting communication, supply, medication, equipment, finances, and technology.

Submitted by:
SANTIAGO, Ma. Kristine Jewel M.
BSN 3-1

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Among the 5 topics discussed, I believe that the topic of informatics literacy is the one that stood out to me the most. I believe that in these times, being information literate is extremely crucial. I think that we need to appropriately determine the needed information for a certain situation. By this, we can infer what we shall include and what we should remove from the pool of information that we have. Aside from this, I also think that we get to organize our ideas and lay out properly the information that we possess.

Consequently, I also realized the importance to access the needed information efficiently and effectively. This prevents us from being too overwhelmed with the information that we currently have. This also permits us to establish our priorities and choose within the information that we have what we shall omit and include in delivering our care to our patients.

With that said, I also think that we need to use the information that we have effectively to accomplish a specific purpose. Since standards and protocols are established within the hospital setting, it is critical and vital that we gatekeep any information that we have especially if that information will hamper and affect our clients negatively. We must prevent any untoward situation once this information is disclosed.

Submitted by: DURAN, Loi Christian P.
BSN 3-1

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Figure 1: Electronic Health Record Sample

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The topic that I choose is the ‘Nursing Informatics in the Philippines’ because based on what I have red, we are still faced with challenges that are unresolved and unconfronted. It is in fact evident that hospitals specifically, government hospitals are experiencing lack of resources due to shortage of funds because advancement would equal to high cost. With high cost a lot of nurses will not learn how to utilize computer technology, how to apply clinical systems during patient care therefore, it will be a domino effect on how lack of funds would lead to shortage of materials, then, nurses would not be knowledgeable about computers which will have an effect to the patient by increasing the risk for harm to them.

To be able to keep up with advancements, I believe that being innovative and creative is a must for all healthcare providers, they must at least implement the use of EHR/ electronic health record which is where patient’s information are stored and use to be able to intervene care. Doctors can also use CPOE/ computerized physician order entry, with this, they can type the medications, advices, diagnosis, and results, etc. to avoid miscommunication with the patient, nurses, and other healthcare team. Philippines’ healthcare settings faces so much struggle but, still healthcare providers must find a way on how to utilize the nursing informatics into practice because besides lessening the workload of nurses, doctors, etc. this is also to ensure patient safety.

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Upon learning the essence of informatics literacy through this E-module, I
have come to consider that this skill is one of the most fundamental practices that nurses and any other healthcare professionals should learn to acquire. Based on my understanding, informatics literacy is the capacity to determine when information is needed and to persistently find, carefully analyze, and competently apply that information in the most efficient way possible. It is crucial in the field of nursing in the sense that nurses are also responsible to create clinical decisions, and their ability as information literate can greatly affect the outcome of their patient's life. Accordingly, this skill does not only benefit patient outcomes but also expands the experience of the nurse as they widen their knowledge through wise obtaining, applying, and evaluating of information, thereby increasing their ability to provide quality care to their patients.

Submitted by:
CAGUIOA, Precious Tsceralai S.
BSN 3-1

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Figure 1. Faculty Information Guide: Information Literacy. (Carroll College, n.d.) - Retrieved 05 December 2022, from https://www.carroll.edu/library/research-g

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E-module 2 provided us with five different topics that are all important as we progress in this subject, but after reading and learning through the e-module, I can say that Informatics (Information) Literacy is what I understand the most, and this is because I believe that this concept is important because it means more than just being able to read or use a computer, as it concentrates on effective information searching, managing the resources that are available for information, combining and implementing necessary information, and ethically and effectively expressing and using information for the benefit of society.

As my interest in this topic grew, I discovered that there are five major components to information literacy: identify, find, evaluate, apply, and acknowledge. To be an information literate person, one must first identify what type of information one requires, then locate it in appropriate and reliable resources or places, after which evaluate the sources of information to determine whether they are reliable or not, then apply information effectively to achieve a specific goal and objective, and finally, acknowledge the information one used to avoid plagiarism and copyright infringement.

Being information literate is critical in the nursing profession because it enhances the nurse's ability to use the current best available research literature in the conduct of evidence-based practices (EBP), resulting in improved care for the best patient health outcomes. By utilizing the five major components of information literacy, one nurse can provide effective, efficient, and holistic care by:

(1): Becoming aware of the need for information critical to the patient's care plan

(2): Creating a searchable question or statement, followed by planning and carrying out the search.

(3): Retrieving only the necessary information based on the patient's condition.

(4): Using a care plan to organize, synthesize, apply, and evaluate knowledge and information.

(5): Acknowledging evidence-based practice and information gained and used for patient care.

Submitted by:
QUILONGQUILONG, Marjorie B.
BSN 3-1

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Figure 1: information literacy in effective evidence-based practice

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Information Literacy

My key takeaway from this module is that information literacy is crucial to improving the nurse's capacity to conduct evidence-based practice using the most recent, top-quality research material in order to improve nursing-sensitive patient outcomes. Information literacy refers to a set of skills that make it possible for someone to find, analyze, and use information. The five elements of information literacy are finding, evaluating, applying, and acknowledging sources of information. The information-literate nurse uses information well to fulfill a specified objective. The nurse who is knowledgeable about information critically assesses the sources and information that has been obtained before deciding whether to change the original question, look for other sources, or create a new research method.

Submitted By:
RODILLAS, Allyza Erika S.
BSN 3-1

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Health care is undeniably one of the sectors that bears a significant burden in terms of overstretched budgets, rising costs, staff shortages, and increased demand—all of which affect how services are delivered. Among the topics covered in the module, Systems Thinking is one that I find particularly interesting and useful in the nursing profession. Instead of breaking down problems and incidents into parts, systems thinking allows us to approach them holistically through their relationships. This is extremely beneficial to the nursing profession because it is solely focused on the goal of nursing practice, which is to provide holistic care. Through systems thinking, nurses will be able to ensure patient safety by reducing medication errors, reporting patient conditions in a timely and appropriate manner, and maintaining accurate documentation.

Submitted by: SIERRA, Jerylle Gwyneth R.
BSN 3-1

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Electronic Health Record is the reason why we have survived the pandemic without having to meed our healthcare providers personally. This is how helpful EHR in our lives that it gives us everything we need. We can do ultrasounds, X-rays, study medicines, and much more because of EHR. And thus, tracking health records are much easier

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Nursing requires critical thinking, reasoning, and adaptation of knowledge. The topic of knowledge complexity discusses how nurses gain knowledge through experience. The knowledge complexity archetype explains the path of knowledge or information into wisdom or action. In relation to nursing practice at the present time, nursing students learned new information by experiencing clinical settings and doing return demonstrations. Nurses’ knowledge and learning in life are ongoing and continuous as they experience different situations in hospital settings. Moreover, there are a lot of theories and frameworks regarding nursing that are created through a series of experiences, planning, research, and many more. Thus, the knowledge complexity archetype is important for nurses because it describes the concept of how nurses can effectively learn and process new information.

Submitted by:
Castasus, Perri Anne J.
BSN 3-1

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The expansion of the field of nursing informatics has necessitated the acquisition of digital literacy skills. Because technology has been incorporated into the nursing profession, future nurses are expected to have confidence with digital navigation. This will be accomplished if digital education is made available to student nurses in order to provide them the skills they need to use various digital technologies to help them with their nursing responsibility. Nursing requires embracing a cause-and-effect paradigm as computer systems integrated, which means that when new computer technologies and enhanced database systems arose, the demand for nursing software increased. They featured procedures that were modeled after the VS, the Kardex, and other techniques for recording narrative nursing notes. With this, the healthcare and nursing industries have experienced advancements as a result of the continued high paced technological growth and improvement.

Submitted By:
DELOS REYES, Sofia Ysabel B.
BSN 3-1

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In nursing practice, informatics literacy can aid nurses in providing high-quality care to their patients. A nurse with profound informatics literacy, for example, may be able to access a patient's medical history, track their progress, and communicate with other members of the healthcare team using electronic medical records. It is utilized to collect and analyze data on patient outcomes, which allows researchers to better understand the efficacy of various treatments and interventions. Furthermore, informatics literacy can assist nurses in staying current on the latest developments in the field and gaining access to the information they need to make informed decisions about their patients' care.

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After reading the whole module, the one topic that struck to me the most was about Informatics Literacy. The whole thing about Information Literacy is the foundation of Nursing Informatics, without this Nursing Informatics wouldn’t exist. Having Information Literacy skills means that you have the ability to locate, assess, organize, use, and transmit information in all of its forms, especially when making decisions, solving problems, or learning new information. This is vital for nurses to have because it is needed for critical thinking when implementing evidence-based approach in clinical practice. When nurses possess Information Literacy skills and apply it in their practice, they would be able to deliver more quality care to their patients. How is that possible? Information Literacy permits nurses to have the information-seeking qualities needed to be able to draw upon the relevant literature, which results to improving patient outcomes. In a nutshell, nurses today must be data and information literate and proficient in data management, for them to apply data and evidence to inform practice. This competency aids the entire nursing workforce in making nursing care plans that are evidence-based and more appropriate to each patient they handle.

Submitted by:
CASTILLO, Aldheia V.
BSN 3-1

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LAGASCA, Rachel Kelly S. - Informatics Literacy

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LAGASCA, Rachel Kelly S. - Informatics Literacy

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The term "digital literacy" describes a person's ability to utilize, comprehend, and produce digital media. Digital literacy is crucial for nurses since they may utilize internet databases, electronic medical records, and other digital technologies to carry out their jobs. These technologies can aid nurses in improving interactions with coworkers, gaining access to vital patient data, and delivering more effective care. In line with this, the ability to use information, data, and technology to support nursing practice and enhance patient care is known as nursing informatics literacy. It is a crucial component of the nursing profession because it enables nurses to comprehend and utilize the many tools and technology at their disposal in order to give their patients the best care possible. The importance of nursing informatics literacy may be attributed to a number of factors such as the following: (1) Patient care is improved. This is because nurses are better able to obtain and evaluate data utilizing informatics tools and technology. For instance, they may monitor a patient's development and spot any possible issues using electronic medical information. (2) Efficiency gain: Nurses who are proficient in informatics can use digital technologies to optimize operations and spend less time on administrative activities. This will enable them to concentrate on caring for their patients. (3) Improved communication: Nurses can collaborate on patient care by using informatics technologies to talk to other healthcare professionals. The coordination and quality of care may be enhanced as a result. (4) Professional growth: Nurses with a basic understanding of informatics can take use of a variety of online options for learning and development. Overall, nursing informatics literacy is crucial because it enables nurses to use technology and data to enhance patient care, boost productivity, and keep abreast of industry advancements.

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It is inevitable to have a medical error in hospitals due to different factors such as miscommunication, work overload, short staffed, and short interaction time with patients. Through the systems thinking, it can help in addressing problems in healthcare field in a such as emphasizing on different potential source of problem that may arise. In order to improve patient safety, systems thinking takes a more comprehensive approach that calls for all factors that could affect patient care to be assessed and addressed appropriately. With this system, everyone involved in healthcare delivery will fulfill their duties to lessen workloads and help achieve the two most important objective of healthcare, which is giving high quality care and ensure patient safety.

Mahaguay, Precious Hope
BSN 3-1

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Informatics Literacy

Literacy is a right, not a privilege. Applying informatics literacy in the practice of nursing encompasses the basic foundations of nursing on care. Nurses have the right to be literate in nursing informatics because it alleviates problems on administration, management, research and alike as it enables these people to stand independently even with technologies present. Applying this concept on the nursing practice would use education to enhance and expand the current knowledge of nurses as it would help in developing experiences in the work field with competent flow and proficient health teaching.

Submitted By: Louiesito "Uan" G. Sumabat BSN 3-1

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My interest was piqued by the fourth topic of the e-module on digital literacy and the nursing profession, which was focused on system thinking and quality improvement. The application of systems thinking can assist nurses in comprehending how decisions regarding caregiving influence the health of an organization. It could either lead to malpractice or death of a patient. That's why it is important that we should check the whole system itself and not just surface problem.

Competencies in systems thinking strengthen nurses' roles in both the prevention of harm and the enhancement of care. They are required to take an active role in monitoring,reporting, investigating, and resolving errors, and system failures that have an impact on communication or the overall health of their patient.

Almazan, Ric Shinnee Kessett C.

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Upon learning the concept of Digital Literacy and Nursing Profession, I became aware of how reliable technologies can be in the healthcare sector. Personally, I know how computers are able to help us on our daily tasks, but I have not known its purpose in the field of nursing until I've managed to learn Nursing Informatics.

Through Nursing Informatics, I get to know various concepts, which is why I will specifically tackle the application of Systems Thinking into the nursing field. In a bigger 'picture', it is usual for incidents or mistakes to occur during consultations, treatments, and planning. However, on a smaller scale of that 'picture,' we should know why these "usual" mishaps occur anyway. It is fairly obvious that the cause-effect relationship is evident on every aspect of patient-nursing care. This is why, in relation to the cause-effect relationship, every mistake that occur in the field also has underlying factors that aided or influenced its occurrence. Given that there are cases of inevitable staff shortages, expensive costing of supplies/medications, and brain exhaustion of the staffs that resulted from overworking, it should be addressed that each problem transpired because of elements that are not attended. From what I have known, the dynamic relationship of elements involved in the medical field should be given attention because this is where the patient's life depends on. Any observation of lapses starting from the equipment, staff, costing, and even the physician, should be assessed further to avoid the occurrence of accidents that are not ideal for the health of the patient, which can lead to more complications in the near future.

Submitted by: Presto, Matthew Dominick V. (BSN 3-1)

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Information literacy stood out to me as one of the many topics covered in the e-module. To properly utilize the information gathered, especially in the healthcare sector, information literacy is essential in working in hospitals. In order to provide patients with the appropriate care and treatment, nurses and other healthcare professionals ought to be able to properly search, comprehend, evaluate, and utilize a variety of information. Through health records, patient data, and innovative machines for the patient and medical care, the information is made easily accessible by nursing informatics technologies and other workers in the healthcare field.

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Systems Thinking gives a wider perspective of the issues that continuously arise and complex problems become more easier to understand, as do the interrelationships or parts and multiple cause and effect cycles so we can come up with a more effective way of thinking, communicating, acting, and achieving superior results. According to Peter Senge, "Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes rather than parts, for seeing patterns of change rather than static snapshots, and for understanding the subtle interconnectedness that gives living their unique character." That being said, it helps the four major levels of healthcare: patient, care team, organization and environment to rise above the system failures and safety incidents by analyzing the events, identifying problems and patterns, finding the root cause of patterns and developing effective actions. If this can be applied to the healthcare system in the Philippines, positive impact and quality of care can be produced by the healthcare workers and this will help end the unhealthy patterns and old habits that have been affecting the systems cycle. With that, malpractice and unfortunate safety incidents can be prevented since healthcare workers can continue to work efficiently and effectively while patients can receive best care possible resulting to having a healthy hospital environment for patient and improved organization for healthcare team involved.

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Banal, Claire Antonette B.
BSN 3-1

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The healthcare sector is continually put under a lot of stress. Budget constraints, rising expenses, a labor shortage, rising demand, new technology, and innovation all increase the risk of safety mishaps. Since there are around 100 serious safety occurrences reported every day in the healthcare sector, a number that has mostly stayed consistent over the past 20 years, we must find more effective strategies to maintain patient safety.
This is where quality improvement and systems thinking come into play. A system is any type of object made up of parts that may communicate with one another. These components work together to form a whole that results in the desired outcome. In utilizing systems thinking, we may investigate the dynamic interactions between people, technology, and policies at all levels of the overall system. Systems thinking points out the requirement for an appropriate workload level and suggests reminding personnel of their obligation to raise concerns. Because it requires more than just one person's activity, it provides a chance for long-lasting learning and change. Additionally, if taking immediate action is not possible, organizations should at the very least compile evidence for potential future adjustments.

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Figure 1: 5 Components of Information Literacy (Seminole State Library, 2014) Retrieved December 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ronp6Iue9w. 

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CALAMNO, APRIL R. - Informatics Literacy

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CALAMNO, APRIL R. - Informatics Literacy

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Information literacy is essential in nursing informatics because, to be able to understand and integrate data into clinical practice, a nurse informaticist must acquire the skills of critical thinking and discernment through identifying and finding reliable data and information. As technology is only an avenue for nurses to make their jobs easier with the use of devices, machines, and other inventions that facilitate improved and efficient patient care, nurses should be able to evaluate patient data towards the delivery of care. Furthermore, by being information literate, the nurse should be able to integrate technology into nursing science by applying their knowledge with regards to the essence of nursing informatics not only in the field of clinical practice but also towards the areas of research and education that acknowledge and assess information with the help of technology in the healthcare setting, to be able to provide a safe, efficient, and effective care.

Submitted by: CALAMNO, April Rubrico
BSN 3-1

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Figure 1.0 Traditional Thinking v. Systems Thinking Why Systems Thinking is Effective in the Workplace (2020, April 29). SSDM. https://ssdm.co/system-th

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ROMERO, Mack Jake Karlous III R. - Systems Thinking in the Healthcare

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ROMERO, Mack Jake Karlous III R. - Systems Thinking in the Healthcare

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My key takeaway from the eModule is that all healthcare organizations have the responsibility and duty to treat their staff with the same respect and consideration they provide to their patients, protecting their safety and welfare. Given that Systems Thinking enables us to look at the dynamic relationships between people, policies, and technologies, in this sense, it undoubtedly plays a crucial role in addressing challenges that may occur in the healthcare setting as it allows us to consider an issue from multiple perspectives and thus proceed accordingly. As a result, this knowledge can be put to use by offering skill-based seminars and practices to make sure that the staff is operating at their maximum potential and by, if necessary, holding hospital organizations accountable to their established systems. This will help to promote long-lasting change in the nursing discipline i.e. reduction in nursing errors and workloads, as well as aid in overcoming the shortage of nurses.

Submitted by: ROMERO, Mack Jake Karlous III R.
BSN 3-1

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The field of nursing has come a long way since back in the day. The world has become more modernized and innovative equipment as well as approaches are being used nowadays to treat patients. A nurse must be smart in entertaining patients for the sake of their well-being, hence, healthcare professionals need to have a basic understanding of nursing informatics in order to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care while lowering risks and costs. This will improve their knowledge and abilities to deliver adequate, precise, and cutting-edge medical care in the healthcare setting. Additionally, incorporating the subject of nursing informatics literacy into the curriculum encourages student nurses to take a more independent approach to learning and to take on greater responsibility for their own education.

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Nursing informatics, like many other fields of study, is still in its developing years and faces a great deal of struggle. One of the most important reasons for the rise in both knowledge and interest in this area of nursing is that informatics has become an essential component of the curriculum for nursing students.  However, the contents of the curriculum were adapted from resources that were developed on a global scale, and it does not correspond much to the capabilities of the local economy. This field has not yet attained the level of recognition required for it to be considered a subspecialty of nursing arts and science in the country.

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RICARDO, Alexandra M.
BSN 3-1

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COLLANTES, Mary Angela Y. (Sytems Thinking and Quality Improvement)

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COLLANTES, Mary Angela Y. (Sytems Thinking and Quality Improvement)

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SYTEMS THINKING AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
The systems thinking is an important guiding tool that helps us improve the quality of patient care. It helps us better understand complex systems and structures such as the healthcare system and even nursing informatics. It states that the structure of a healthcare system affects patient safety and health; it should be organized, systematic and effective to ensure safe patient care. Every aspect/element of the structure or system should be kept in check all the time because one affects the other. For example, if the information system is effective, it can ease the workload of the members of the healthcare team, allowing them to have more time to meet patients, thus, improving patient care. Systems-thinking allows us to explore the underlying dynamic interactions between people, technologies and policies within and across levels of the whole systems.

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COLLANTES, Mary Angela Y.
BSN 3-1

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Among the different topics discussed in the e-module, what caught my interest most is information literacy. Information literacy is vital to be able to properly make use of information gathered especially in the field of healthcare. Nurses together with other healthcare professionals should be able to properly search, understand, assess, and use different kinds of information in order to provide appropriate care and treatment for their patients. The information is made available by nursing informatics technologies through EHRs, EMRs, patient portals, healthcare workflow management, and machine learning.

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ADOREMOS, Eileen Nicole L.
BSN 3-1

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ELMIDO, EZRA MAE S. (History & Information Literacy) 

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ELMIDO, EZRA MAE S. (History & Information Literacy) 

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The incorporation of technology in the nursing profession has been gradual; it took a long time and tedious research to be able to create Health Systems which could be effectively used in the nursing practice. Through this module, I was able to understand that technology wasn’t the only thing that was changing, through time nurses also evolved. Of course, applying these new technologies in the hospital setting also created new challenges, and nurses have to look for new ways to overcome these issues continuously, this shows how nurses and those involved in Nursing Informatics are dynamically affecting the healthcare system. One great example is shown through the concept of Informatics Literacy; Because new technologies were introduced, nurses needed to adapt and broaden their knowledge and informatics literacy to be able to properly acquire, process, generate, and disseminate knowledge. But being information literate extends outside the operation of the Health Informatic Systems, it can also affect how you manage and extend health teaching to your patient. If you can effectively evaluate and assess the information you have, no matter what the source of the data is (medical websites, online videos, news outlets, blogs, etc.), you can give better care to your patients.

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ELMIDO, Ezra Mae S.
BSN 3-1

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Knowing when and how to acquire information, as well as how to analyze and use it efficiently, are all aspects of informatics literacy. Information structures, information processes, and information technologies all contribute to this support. Nurses and other professionals that are information literate may deliver evidence-based practice and further make therapeutic decisions based on research. Along with teaching patients, they may utilize this expertise to select the best study or research material for putting evidence-based practice into practice, leading to better patient outcomes and an EBP that is tailored to the patient's values and preferences.

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PERUNA, Abigael B.
BSN 3-1

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The healthcare system is currently facing a lot of pressure as what the in the video Systems Thinking: A New Direction in Healthcare Incident Investigation presented. Systems thinking emphasizes there is high occurrences of safety incidents within the healthcare setting as there is contributing factors affecting to it which is the lack of staff, budget constraints, high costs, increase demand, technology, and innovation. This should lead in finding ways or strategies in which how the system will maintain patient safety. The healthcare systems together upon proper management should be improved and prevent healthcare incidents. In addition, information literacy is important in the nursing profession in order to decrease errors and promote patient safety.