Lesson 2 Flashcards
A field of nursing that incorporates nursing, computer, and information sciences to maintsin and develop medical data and systems to support the practice of nursing
Nursing Informatics
Technologies that have evolved due to health care/nursing informatics:
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
Electrical Medical Records (EMRs)
What consists of the electronic medical records (EHRs) :
Test results
Progress notes
Nursing notes
Medication records
There are “building blocks” of nursing communication
Data
Information
Knowledge
Raw facts which lacks meaning and described objectively without interpretation
Data
Data that are interpreted, organized, or structured
Information
Processed information that helps to clarify or explain some aspects of our environment or world
Knowledge
What theory: no matter which agency experiences computerization of information and whether it is an entirely new experience or an update, change is involved
Change theory
Nursing Informatics as the linear progression - from data into information and knowledge
Graves and Corcoran’s Model
Nursing Informatics involves identification of information needs, resolution needs, and attainment of nursing goals/objectives
Schwirian’s Model
Who proposed the Schwirian Model
Patricia Schwirian
A model intended to stimulate and guide systematic research in nursing informatics
Schwirian’s Model
Nursing informatics is the intersection between the discipline science and the area of informatics
Turley’s Model
Nursing information is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and information science
Data-Information-Knowledge Model
Every nurse must be able to continuously exhibit the capability to acquire skills
Benner’s Level of Expertise Model
