Undergraduate Teaching on Clinical Information Management
Year 2 of our BN programme had a fascinating talk by a health informatician from NHS Lothian, as part of their ‘Professionalism’ course.
Marina Copping, Clinical Information Manager (Maternal, Children and Young People) described current developments of clinical IT systems and the importance of good record keeping.
She stressed that the focus of nursing care should always be the person and their holistic needs but reminded students that in the current financial climate without good data it is difficult to justify extra resources for nursing. Marina said that capturing the right data and having the means to safely share accurate and timely information is critical to maintaining safe and effective care. Year 2 students have another opportunity to consider eHealth and implications to community practice later on in this semester
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