Competency 1: Chapter 2: Informatics Theory and Practice Flashcards
are often used to describe an idea about an event, a situation, a process, or a group of events, can be things that can be seen, heard, smelled, or felt, can also take a more abstract form and be based on evidence that is grouped together through presumed connections
Phenomena
What are the 2 major purposes of theories?
to guide research and practice
This is conceptualization of some aspect of nursing reality communicated for the purpose of describing phenomena, explaining relationships between phenomena, predicting consequences, or prescribing nursing care
nursing theory
These types of theories aim to describe the broadest scope of nursing phenomena and relationships between them and do not lend themselves to empirical testing.
Grand theories
Type of nursing system in which the nurse cares for all the patient needs
wholly compensatory
Type of nursing system in which the nurse assists the patient to care for himself or herself;
partly compensatory
Type of nursing system when the nurse assists the patient to learn how to care for himself or herself.
supportive-educative
These types of theories are more limited in scope, focus on a specific phenomenon, and
reflect practice (teaching, clinical, or administrative). These theories cross different nursing fields and reflect a wide variety of nursing-care situations
middle range theories
These types of theories focus on a specific nursing phenomenon. They are often bound
to a specific type of clinical practice and focus on a specific population. These theories are not meant to transcend time or go beyond a particular social structure, but rather they fit well within a certain social context
Situation-specific theories
What are the 4 propositions used to specify key assumptions in the decision-making process involving the choice of behaviors to maintain physiologic stability and the response to symptoms when they occur?
(a) symptom recognition is the key to successful self-care management
(b) self-care is better in patients with more knowledge, skill, experience, and compatible values
(c) confidence moderates the relationship between self-care and outcomes
(d) confidence mediates the relationship between self-care and outcomes.
What are the 3 types of systems used in health informatics?
Data-oriented systems
Information-oriented systems
Knowledge-oriented systems
In DIKW what is: most discrete components of the DIKW framework. They are mostly presented as discrete observations with little interpretation. These are the smallest factors describing the patient, disease state, health environment, and so forth.
Data
In DIKW what is: data plus meaning. A meaningful clinical picture is constructed when different data points are put together and presented in a specific context, a continuum of progressively developing and clustered data; it answers questions such as who, what, where, and when.
Information
In DIKW what is: information that has been processed and organized so that relations and inter-actions are identified, constructed of meaningful information built of discrete data points, derived by discovering patterns of relationships between differ-ent clusters of information and affected by assumptions and central theories of a scientific discipline with which it is concerned, answers questions of why and/or how
Knowledge
IN DIKW what is: an appropriate use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems, m includes ethics or knowing why certain things or procedures should or should not be implemented in specific cases, guides the nurse in rec-ognizing the situation at hand, based on the nurse’s expertise, patient’s and patient’s family’s values, and patient’s healthcare knowledge.
Wisdom
