Module #8 Flashcards
a social networking and blogging service that allows users to send and read tweets
determine to what extent a computer is considered portable.
Size & Weight
“It is an electronic communication sent and received by mobile phone.”
Text Messaging
is a nursing database developed and maintained by Nursing Informatics.
inforMM
Give 5 adv. of PDA
− Lightweight and fits nicely into pockets
− Provides medical information at the point of care
− Programs work quickly with no lag or booting up
− Provides medical dictionary
− Nursing dx
− Lab values/interpretations
− Metric conversations
− Risk management
− Collects and stores data at bedside
− Provides an entire drug profile including implementation
− Aides student nurses by decreasing amount of books in clinical
− Reduces stress and saves time and money
− Provides step by step nursing procedures.
− “The benefit of having information in the palm of one’s hand not only saves time, but reduces trips to the
computer by 80%” (Santori, 2008)
− Saving time and the ability to use at the bedside seem to be most beneficial in that it does save trips to the
computer and looking
− Things up in books.
Give 3 disadv. of PDA
− The need to be trained poses a problem for the already busy nurse.
− The relationship between the device and the user may not be positive
− Risk for colonization when being used with multiple patients and not being cleaned.
− Medication programs are not 100% perfect
− Software limited to drug interactions are more accurate
− If having to purchase device for own desire it can be costly
− Although some facilities require the use of these devices and pay for them, nurses who purchase them as an
individual to use will not get refunded and could spend a lot of money purchasing the device and available
software.
computer-based technology that facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts, and information through
the building of virtual networks and communities. By design, it is internet-based and gives users quick
electronic communication of content.”
Social Media
it also can manage documents, audio and video files as categories, attributes, or nodes in visual displays
that show the structure and properties of the document.
NVivo
It is a term for a small, mobile, handheld device that provides computing and
information storage and retrieval capabilities for personal or business use, often for keeping schedules, calendars
and address book information handy.
Personal Digital Assistant
A computer that can be
held in the palm of one hand and used with the other
handheld device
“means to conduct a conference between two or more participants at different sites
by using computer networks to transmit audio and video data
Two-way video conferencing
Computers that are small and lightweight enough to be hand carried are
Mobile devices
determines many of the characteristics of the computer because
it controls how the hardware and software work together.
Operating system
Used as an umbrella term for various types of online collaborative services including web
seminar (Webinars), webcasts and peer- level web meeting
Web Conference
has the least limitations in what it can do because it has the
greatest capacity
desktop computer
