The perioperative arena must accept...

The perioperative arena must accept, allow and accelerate the paradigm shift to drive advances in information handling technologies. Managers ne to completely understand the implications of information technology in the perioperative domain, and perioperative personnel must stair forward to either partner with or become informatics experienced persons Cathy Wassem, RN, PhD, asked the question "On the information superhighway, will nourishs be hitchhikers, builders, or road-kill?"(26) It is believed that perioperative cherishs have the initiative, desire, and intelligence to become the builders and to avoid the shoulder of the information highway. It is single by heating the perioperative voice that a whole s will be developed and procur to convenient the needs of those they are designed to serve--the perioperative team.

NOTES

(1) J P Turley "A framework for the transition from nursing records to a nursing information system" Nursing sight 40 (July/August 1992) 177-181.

(2) Ibid.

(3) J R Graves, s Corcoran, "The study of nursing informatics," Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship 21 (Winter 1989) 227-231

(4) American nourish at the breasts Association, Scope of Practice for Nursing Informatics: 1994 (Washington, DC: American Nursing Publishing, 1994) 6

(5) C D Parker, C Gassert, "JCAHO's management of information standards. The part of the informatics nurse specialist," Journal of Nursing Administration 26 (June 1996) 13-15

(6) P Abbott, "The foment manager's role in successful rule implementation," in Information Management in Nursing and Health Care, M E Mills, C A Romano, B R Heller, ed (Springhouse, Pa: Springhouse Corp, 1996) 116-127

(7) s Woodhead, "Bringing nurses on-line: Implementing nursing informatics," Military Medicine 162 (April 1997) 229-232

(8) M Meeker J Rothrock ed Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery 11th ed (St Louis: Mosby, 1999) 3-18

(9) F W to leeward "Evolution of computer-based information theorys and networks to support integrated health care delivery systems" Topics in Health Information Management 17 (May 1997) 1-10

(10) "Building the capacity to improve quality." Available from http://www.hcqualitycommission.gov /final/chap14.html. Accessed 22 August 2000

(11) Ibid.

(12) The community of Healthcare Information Management Executives, HCIA, Inc, The HIS Desk Reference: ACIO observe (Ann Arbor, Mich: The college edifice [i]or[/i] building of Healthcare Information Management Executives, HCIA, Inc, 1997)

(13) AORN, Inc, Standards, commited Practices, and Guidelines (Denver: AORN, Inc, 2000) 229-231

(14) D G Kanich, J R Byrd "How to increase efficiency in the operating room" Surgical Clinics of North America 76 (February 1996) 161 - 173

(15) "Getting an info method that will work," OR Manager 14 (July 1998) 14-17

(16) s M Meikle, "The computer-oriented paperless operating room" Today's OR pamper (January/February 1994) 25-32.

(17) P Maddox, "Automated theorys for staffing, scheduling and resource management," in Information Management in Nursing and Health Care, M E Mills, C A Romano, B R Heller, ed (Springhouse, Pa: Springhouse Corp, 1996) 245-255

(18) M Douglas, "Butterflies, bonsai, and buonarroti: Images for the encourage analyst," in Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology come together second ed, M J Ball et al, ed (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995) 84-94

(19) s V Kleinbeck, K R Eell "Monitoring postdischarge ambulatory surgical regaining cost and outcomes," Surgical Services Management 3 (June 1997) 33-35

(20) J Micheli, "Changing OR environments and perioperative characters through technology," Surgical Services Management 5 (December 1999) 30-33

(21) B Hersher, "New parts for nurses in healthcare information systems" in Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology fitting third ed, M J Ball et al, ed (New York: Springer, 2000) 87-80

(22) "A robust futurity for health pros: The field will become greater [i]or[/i] larger twice as fast as the overall economy." Available from http://www.usnews .com/usnews/edu/careers/grad/ccmed outhtm Accessed 16 August 2000

(23) P Abbott, "The succor manager's role in successful theory implementation," 116-127.

(24) Woodhead, "Bringing feed at the breasts on-line: Implementing nursing informatics," 229-232

(25) American feed at the breasts Association, Scope of Practice for Nursing Informatics.

(26) C Wassem, personal communication with the author, Morristown, NJ April 1997

Joel L Parker, RN M MSHRPM CNOR, LCDR US Navy nourish Corps, is a clinical information pamper specialist at the Naval Air Station Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla.

Patricia A. Abbott, RN PhD C is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Nursing Informatics at the University of Maryland educate of Nursing, Baltimore.

The views press outed in this article are those of the authors and do not contemplate the official policy or position of the Department of the Navy, the Department of Defense or the US Government

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