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Demand for Nurses Nurses may be the most in-demand health care
position in the country. Nursing Informatics Can Transform
Patient Care October 20th, 2010 As information technology
develops, we should find that more and more often nursing
informatics is becoming more prevalent in helping doctors and
other health care professional collect, evaluate, and analyze
patient data. Because nurses are often the first gateway through
which a patient accesses medical help, they are important cogs
in the health care information technology machine, and as such,
they should be used more often as legitimate methods of
collecting important data. A recent report, that of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine, actually
suggests that there is a way forward by which nursing
informatics can make up for some of the weaknesses in current
iterations of how health care programs manage the surplus of
information available to them. In one way, nurs