Module 1 Flashcards
the science and practice dealing with the effective collection, storage, retrieval, and use of information.
Information science
focuses on the ethical application of knowledge acquired through education, research and practice to provide services and interventions to patient to maintain, enhance, or restore their health and to acquire, process, generate and disseminate nursing knowledge to advance the nursing profession
Nursing science
focuses on human response
Nursing
One of the building blocks of nursing informatics, it is introduced through a focus on computers and hardware and software that compromise these evolving systems
Computer science
is the study of information systems, the application and usage of knowledge focuses on why and how technology can be put to best use to serve the information flow within the organisation.
Information science
combining nursing, information, and computer sciences for managing and processing data into knowledge for using in nursing practice (Murphy, 2010)
Nursing Informatics
The meaning of nursing informatics has evolved and been refined, by the _________________ (2008) definition stated as ―a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice
American Nurses Association (ANA)
“Nursing Informatics science and practice integrates nursing, its information and knowledge and their management, with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families and communities worldwide” — Who defined this?
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
refer to patients, healthcare consumers and any other recipient of nursing care or informatics solutions
Individuals
a multidisciplinary science that involves aspect from computer science, cognitive science, social science, communication science, and library science to deal with obtaining, gathering, organizing, manipulating, managing, storing, retrieving, recapturing, disposing of, distributing, or broadcasting information
Information science
