Colina Hill Discussion – Week 9 Initial PostThe Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a great tool to use when making decisions and changes within a company. This cycle includes Analysis, Design, I

Colina Hill Discussion – Week 9 Initial Post

The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a great tool to use when making decisions and changes within a company. This cycle includes Analysis, Design, Implementation, Test, and Maintenance. Each of these steps has an important part to play in successful implementation but, it is equally important to have the right team working on each of these phases. Nurses should be a primary part of the team since they use these systems and directly work with patients more than other healthcare providers.

Analysis: Requirements for the system are teased out from a detailed study of the business needs of the organization(Mcgonigle & Mastrian, 2015). During this phase workflow and business practices are examined. Having anursepart of this phase is vital because the true issues can be identified as nurse is hands-on seeing and working. This gives a nurse a unique perspective. A key to the successful implementation ofhealth information technology (health IT)is to recognize its impact on both clinical and administrativeworkflow (Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit, n.d.). Not allowing a nurse to be part of this phase can lead to the wrong issues being addressed or missing ones that need to be addressed.

Design: During the design phase it is being evaluated what programs are needed and how those programs will be implemented. Nurses are vital during this phase because this will be a time that the decision to purchase programs may be made having the input from the people who will use such programs is important. If you do not have a nurse involved in this phase it could result in a program being purchased that will not work as efficiently compared to if there were expert opinions given prior.

Implementation: During this phase,the program is being brought to life(Mcgonigle & Mastrian, 2018). having a nurse part of this phase may help phase out kinks that may come into play when rolled out. They may have the ability to catch potential problems and have them corrected prior to roll out. Not having a nurse involved in this phase may result in a program being rolled out with kinks causing frustration from staff and may cause failure in the rollout.

Test: The testing phase beta testing is done to determine if the programs ready for the full roll out to all areas. Having the nurse assist with thisphase will be vital as a superuser trained to use these programs and also familiar with working the area of the rollout will allow them to assist their peers and receive honest feedback. Not having a nurse involved here may cause peers to have further resistance to a new program that is unfamiliar to them but having a peer assist them may gain their confidence in this new rollout.

Maintenance: Once the new program has been tested the maintenance phase is important to keep the program running well and make changes as needed to make sure the program is serving its purpose. Nurse involvement in this phase will help to make sure that feedback of the program is being given and in a timely manner. They will also be able to give suggestions on what would help the program to be more efficient as they are using the program on a daily bases. Not allowing them to be part of this phase may cause a delay in hearing that there is a problem or feedback on what improvements would help the program be successful.

References

Mcgonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Mcgonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit. (n.d.). https://digital.ahrq.gov. https://digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit

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