Innovative Care: Dr. Pascal Wright’s Passion for Nursing Informatics
Maryland hospitals are innovative. And no one exemplifies this better than Dr. Wright, a dedicated nursing informatics specialist at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center. Her work ensures that cutting-edge technology meets compassionate patient care.
Instead of handwritten notes and paper charts, health care today relies on real-time data, digital documentation, and seamless system integration. These are all areas where Dr. Wright’s team provides unqiue patient support. Watch her experience on TikTok.
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What is nursing informatics?
“Nursing informatics is really the bridge between nursing and information technology,” says Dr. Wright. “We advocate for our end users to ensure that we have a streamlined technology solution that helps them to provide the world-class patient care that we strive for.” Watch on TikTok.
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What inspired your career in nursing informatics?
“Nursing informatics has been my passion since I started nursing. And the reason why I got into this role was because I really wanted to see how we can use technology to sort of advance health care.
Gone are the days when we used to document things on paper or kind of write things like handwriting, different types of documentation. So I really wanted to get involved with how we can use technology to really improve patient care.” Watch on TikTok.
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What does your typical day look like?
“Our day-to-day activities in the nursing informatics world involve helping our end users to utilize the EMR appropriately. We also provide over-the-shoulder support to them. So whenever they call for any assistance with documenting or accessing patient data in the EMR, we support them as well.
We do a lot of training, so we do a lot of onboarding for our clinical staff. So nursing CNAs, providers, or physicians, we support them in providing patient care as well as clinical documentation.
We provide over-the-shoulder support whenever they need help accessing or documenting patient data,” she shares. “Our goal is to make sure the technology works for them, not against them.”
Dr. Wright’s commitment to nursing informatics is rooted in a simple but powerful vision: better tools lead to better care.
Learn more about Dr. Wright’s experience on TikTok.