Challenges facing Philippine Nursing Informatics

  Computer and telecommunication systems have proven to be effective management tools for health care data and communication of this information to other healthcare professionals and their use will become the way of the future. With this technology, software programs can be designed to assist health care providers in making decisions for individual patients, as data are entered for analysis by the computer software, and recommendations are made so decisions can be made quickly, with minimal errors.

They challenge the Philippines to embrace this to be a part of the health care delivery system. The lack of source and financial support of the government makes it not possible for NI to be applied in this third world country.

The next generation of nurses will not be prepared to work in such a technology-rich environment. Training's and seminars were not enough to make it be in reality. There are so many health care issues to be prioritized rather than making NI visible in medical fields. One of these problems is the status of our hospitals where there is a need of renovations, new and high-tech facilities. There is also a need of old nurses to study NI for them to deal with the new trends.  We are trying to learn and understand its use so that in the near future we can cope in the involving healthcare facilities of the world.

The science of nursing informatics has evolved to aid in the management of nursing data.  Disciplines such as nursing, which are information intensive, require the careful investigation into the use of computers to process nursing information and nurses need to feel comfortable working with computerized data.