Midterm Flashcards
Nursing Informatics
A science and practice [which] integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, and their management, with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide
(Supports evidence informed practice and provides you with the tools to be safe)
Health Literacy
The ability to access, understand, and act on information for health. Health professionals, such as nurses, play a key role in developing health literacy skills by providing clear and accurate information to clients
Information Literacy
The ability to seek out information when there is a need, find high quality sources, and apply them appropriately
Competency
A complex know-act based on combining and mobilizing internal resources (knowledge, skills, attitudes) and external resources to apply appropriately to specific types of situations
Decision Support Tools
Tools used for enhancing health-related decisions and actions with pertinent, organized clinical knowledge and patient information to improve health and healthcare delivery
Health Information Systems (HIS)
A combination of vital and health statistical data from multiple sources, used to derive information and make decisions about the health needs, health resources, costs, use, and outcome of health care
Information and Communication Technologies
Encompasses all those digital and analogue technologies that facilitate the capturing, processing, storage, and exchange of information via electronic communication
Standardized Clinical Terminology
Terminology required directly or indirectly to describe health conditions (e.g. symptoms, complaints, illness, diseases, disorders, etc.), and healthcare activities. Used in medical records, clinical communication, and medical science
Standardized Nursing Terminology
A classification system which allows for the standardized collection of essential nursing data.
The collected data are meant to provide an accurate description of the nursing process used when providing nursing care. This allows for the analysis and comparison of nursing data across populations, settings, geographic areas, and time
Messaging Standards
Standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information in a consistent manner to support clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services
Interoperable Electronic Health Records
This system will allow authorized health care professionals to view and, in some cases, to update a patient’s essential health information.
Interoperable refers to a system that has the ability to work with other systems or products.
If they weren’t part of an interoperable electronic health record (iEHR), the registries, diagnostic imaging, drug information, and laboratory information systems
EHR – Electronic Health Record
A record specific to a clinician’s (e.g. physician) practice or organization. It is the record that clinicians maintain on their own patients, and which detail demographics, medical and drug history, and diagnostic information such as laboratory results and findings from diagnostic imaging.
ICNP – International Classifications of Nursing Practice
The ICNP® is a unified nursing language system. It is a compositional terminology for nursing practice that facilitates the development of, and cross-mapping among, local terms and existing terminologies
PHR – Personal Health Record
A complete or partial health record under the custodianship of a person(s) (e.g. a patient or family member) that holds all or a portion of the relevant health information about that person over their lifetime
SNOMED-CT – Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms
Asystematically organised computer processable collection of clinical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms, and definitions covering diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, substances, etc.
It allows a consistent way to index, store, retrieve, and aggregate clinical data across specialties and sites of care
