Question

1)How are safety and cost affected by the use of informatics at the point of care? Identify two examples.

2) what pH value should the nurse expect when confirming placement of the nasogastric tube using the pH method? What pH value should the nurse expect for respiratory or small intestine secretion?

Answer 1

1..Health Informatics is also called as Health Care Informatics or Health Information Systems where uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to analyze health care records to improve the health care outcomes. In Health Informatics Electronic Medical Records is helpful in higher quality care and safer care.Through the electronic charting of patient data,the nurses are able to obtain the information quickly and efficiently and helps to improve the daily work flow.

.The major responsibilities of the health care providers is to protect the patient protection and prevent the patients from any accidental harm at any level.Through the systematic approach we have to create a safe environment to the patients in any health care organization.

The safety of informatics at the point of care are by:

*Enhanced the documentation process

*Reduced medical errors by easily access of patient data

*Reduced some cost associated with health care

*Enhanced the co-ordination of care by coordination of the information among the health care providers

*Patient response monitoring system

*Risk monitoring software in gathering data

*Intelligent Incident Reporting software

*Software reporting Patient Safety Indicators

$\rightarrow$ It reduce the cost by reducing the medical errors

Annually nearly medical errors in the health care field costs about nearly $40 billion and most of the errors are preventable by the application of health informatics.The health informatics helps to automate certain tasks,avoid errors,improve the productivity and prevent some amount of costs burden in the health care field

eg: When a patient is admitted to a hospital after several years with some other problem.The medical professional can gain the patient historical data in an ease manner and should be available for all health care staff who are dealing with the patient.Thus can make the decision easily and avoid most of the errors thus promote the health and well being

2.When placing nasogastric tube using the pH method .the recommended method of confirming the placement of NG feeding tubes by measurement pH of gastric,intestinal and respiratory.aspirate.

The nurse expect the pH value of the gastric aspirate is 1-5 and the pH of the respiratory secretion/aspirate is about 7 or greater (alkaline),and the small intestine aspirate is about 6 or higher.