The Nurse-Computer Interface

A nurse-computer interface is a part of a workplace where nurse's modified activity meets with a computer adapted for human use for enhanced productivity while maintaining harmony with nature. As the use of computers in nursing increases, ergonomics is of increasing importance to the nurse as an individual and in the provision of care. A nurse has to be familiar with light (LED) indicators, their behavior and what  they mean about the computer. They are usually put in front of a system unit or a device where you can easily see them.
A nurse has to be familiar also with symbols or labels found on hardware components. It is now generally accepted that computers are regarded as indispensable tools in nursing care and other areas administration, education, and research. Nurse great involvement in information system advancements clearly shows that nurse and computers do fit.

Elements of a Computer System

Computer System consists of the four essential elements:
   hardware
   software
   data
   user

The hardware components
    This will allows you to enter information, view work, process and transmit data and store information for later retrieval.

The software and the graphical user interface
     Graphical user interface provides a way to point and click with a mouse or other pointing device to select options and manipulate objects displayed on screen. Nowadays, application windows present with web-like features and functions, more appealing to the market as most users are already familiar on features of web-pages in the internet.

The nurse as a user
      The nurse just like any user has to interact with the computer for it to do function.

The electronic data
      To be useful, electronic data must undergo three processes namely: transmission, processing, and storage.

Do Nurses and Computer Fit?

                   

                     Nursing Informatics is very important as it is give us the knowledge basically in the computer systems especially nowadays our technology is advancing. As we are still in nursing student, it is much easier for us to work with in the future if we are already exposed to computers. As I have remembered, I was able to used the computer when I was in high school already because in elementary I'm afraid to use it because my parents told me that I might break the computer or do unnecessarily to it. As I knowing more of it in high school, it became fun of me because of the games especially social network before was improving like Friendster and in the college I'm totally addicted to computers because I've been reading a lot about my favorite K-Pop artists and watching a lot of movies and dramas and aside from it I gained knowledge especially when you want to research about a certain topic. That made computer interesting. Now, since I'm a nursing student where the course Nursing Informatics is taught, I gained more specialized knowledge and skills aside from the knowledge I gained from extracurricular activities. 

                     As I've learned about Nursing Informatics, I will not have a hard time to adapt with nursing informatics applications in the working field in the future. I know this won't be as easy as I will expect but nurses are always and should be ready as we will apply it to the working field. As models of health care, we should properly use the computers for us to be able to work properly and to provide essential care to the patients with proper information that we need to give to them. Technology is advancing so as nurses and other medical team should use it properly and beneficially.