Advantage and Disadvantage of Nursing Informatics

        Nursing informatics integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to collect, manage and communicate data, information and knowledge in the nursing practice. It facilitates data collection, information and knowledge to support patients and also in decision-making. However, modernizing or improving the healthcare system has a big difference from what things we are used to in the later days. There are many advantage that we can get from Nursing informatics but there are disadvantage as well.

   First, it is an advantage because the data is shared. So there is no worry for those documents to be lost or destroyed. Second, the control is centralized. It also has improved the integrity of the data because it is secured. And it has a conceptual design. On the part of the nurse, it is a big help because it makes the nurse to acquire more knowledge in terms of computer literacy.There is also a difficulty however because the conceptual design is complex. There is a need for multiple external databases because the data being collected is increasing. You also need to hire a database-related employee to manage the information system.