Gaza, Jeannezelle Anne Mariz H.

BSN-3B

Revitalizing the Health Care System through Nursing Informatics and

Protecting Mother-Infant Contact and Breastfeeding during Pandemic
Nursing Informatics has brought a
remarkable change in the practice of
nursing. Knowledge and skills on using
modern technologies has become a must
for a nurse, regardless of the
specialization. Nursing informatics has
created a new environment not only to
the nurses but also to their colleagues, the
whole healthcare team and the clients.
Through the advancements the health
care system has achieved, communication and interventions to the easiest way ever, and it
is still in its evolution.
Hearing how the different speakers talk about
their experiences from how they found out they are
destined to wear the scrubs and take care of the
people in need of help made me realize a lot of things.
Honestly, at first, I am half hearted in the interest
about how the
nursing
informatics would be helpful for me. I was always
thinking that I should focus more in medicine, in
surgery, in pediatrics, in CHN and a lot more nursing
specialization I can choose to acquire in the future. I

feel like nursing informatics is just a prerequisite

to pass and advance to the next semester. Through
this webinar I was able to come into realization
that nursing is not just a course I need to pass in
order to be a nurse. I was able to understand
that—just like any other nursing subjects, nursing
informatics is vital and essential for us—future
nurses, future health care providers.
Mr. Cabral did not only talk about what is nursing informatics and how it is
important to the nurses and future nurses. He did not only talk about how a nursing
informaticist be credible for that certain field. He did not only explain the job description of
a nursing informaticist, instead, he shared us how nursing informatics affect him as a nurse,
how it changed his life and how it made him
what he is right now. I think, that is what
really made me listen to a talk I was
supposedly not interested. He made the
boring topic more interesting through
dodging the traditional and more theoretical
way of conveying novel knowledge to his
listeners and attacking about an actual
scenario he had experienced and made us
dive into it and
be totally amazed.
I think, as a
nursing
informaticist that
is one skill they
should possess.
Not everyone is
open for change
and innovations.
Not everyone is
willing to change
the traditional
way of how they
make things done—because what we are used to do is synonymous to ease and comfort for
us. But, in order to be completely capable, we as a nurse should be able to catch up with
how fast the world and the technologies
evolve. Throughout his talk, he successfully
made the idea of being a nursing
informaticist more interesting. Because we
nurses are change agents, we should
adhere to change regardless of our
specialization, and the innovations cannot
be stopped, these would continuously be
evolving and the best way to keep going
strong and firm is to go with the flow.
 The next speaker, Dr. Zubiri
talked about a common health
teaching of a nurse to a mother who
just had given birth—the importance
of breastfeeding. But this time, it is
about a more relevant topic—
breastfeeding amidst COVID-19
pandemic. Just by reading the title of
her topic of discussion, it already
picked my interest. It has also been a
question I was asking myself, the web and my books—can a mother suspected or positive
in COVID-19 nurse their babies? Is it safe? How about the susceptible baby? How could it be
possible? What are the
things they have to
consider when doing so?
What percentage will it
guarantee that the mother
would not infect their child?
And there, she answered it
all. How a mother can still
be with their precious
newborn, carry them and
feed them without the fear
of infecting them. she
provided a comprehensive
explanation how the possible host should be the one take the precautionary measures to
provide assurance regarding the
risk of cross contamination. With
seriousness and adherence to the
protocol, the baby can still be given
the “unang yakap” as well as the
colostrum they need.