Community/ Population Health & Nursing Informatics
Introduction
The purpose of this web page is to use nursing informatics to monitor community health, prevent disease outbreak and promote population health. Computerized global data collection may avert a widespread epidemic (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). “Syndromic surveillance” systems are used to monitor possible disease outbreak information. This readiness and preparedness attitude may be used for terrorism monitoring, case findings and population characteristics observation for a possible outbreak. This type of surveillance is used to monitor public health. Remember the SARS scare that first appeared in China. According to the World Health Organization data on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged as a global epidemic threat and was averted due to computerized data collection and tracking.
Monitoring the health of a community has been a part of nursing practice since the beginning of time. Florence Nightingale is one of the first public health nurses to reach out to the community; her recommendation for medical reform to improve sanitary conditions using a root cause analysis based on morbidity and mortality rates. Surveillance is needed for early detection of an outbreak. Data collected by health care providers such as a patients chief complaint, ambulance log records, filled prescriptions, retail drug and product purchases, school absentee excuses, medical signs and symptoms may need to be explored further (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Data collected by health care providers need to analyzed and investigated to protect community health.
Introduction
The purpose of this web page is to use nursing informatics to monitor community health, prevent disease outbreak and promote population health. Computerized global data collection may avert a widespread epidemic (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). “Syndromic surveillance” systems are used to monitor possible disease outbreak information. This readiness and preparedness attitude may be used for terrorism monitoring, case findings and population characteristics observation for a possible outbreak. This type of surveillance is used to monitor public health. Remember the SARS scare that first appeared in China. According to the World Health Organization data on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged as a global epidemic threat and was averted due to computerized data collection and tracking.
Monitoring the health of a community has been a part of nursing practice since the beginning of time. Florence Nightingale is one of the first public health nurses to reach out to the community; her recommendation for medical reform to improve sanitary conditions using a root cause analysis based on morbidity and mortality rates. Surveillance is needed for early detection of an outbreak. Data collected by health care providers such as a patients chief complaint, ambulance log records, filled prescriptions, retail drug and product purchases, school absentee excuses, medical signs and symptoms may need to be explored further (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Data collected by health care providers need to analyzed and investigated to protect community health.