Nursing Informatics and Digital Health Flashcards
Define nursing informatics.
A science and practice which integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, and their management, with information and communication technologies (ICT) to promote the health of people, families and communities worldwide
What is the CASN?
Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
The national voice for nursing education, research, and scholarship, and represents baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs in Canada.
The CASN establishes and promotes…
national standards of excellence for nursing education.
What are the entry-to-practice nursing informatics competencies?
Information and knowledge management
Professional and regulatory accountability
Information and communication technologies
Privacy and confidentiality
Briefly describe Information and knowledge management (entry-to-practice nursing informatics competency).
Uses relevant information and knowledge to support the delivery of evidence informed patient care (critically appraised resources to support decision-making)
Assists patients & families to access, review and evaluate information retrieved using ICTs
Briefly describe Professional and regulatory accountability (entry-to-practice nursing informatics competency).
Legal and regulatory requirements, ethical standards, and organizational policies and procedures
Professional judgement must prevail
Briefly describe Information and communication technologies (entry-to-practice nursing informatics competency).
Identifies and demonstrates appropriate use of technologies to deliver safe nursing care
Briefly describe Privacy and confidentiality (entry-to-practice nursing informatics competency).
Requires knowledge and practice of effective cybersecurity measures (access, authentification, policies, backup and cloud storage)
Define digital health.
The field of knowledge and practice associated with the development and use of digital technologies to improve health. Digital health expands the concept of eHealth to include digital consumers, with a wider range of smart-devices and connected equipment, and other uses of digital technologies for health.
Technologies can provide new options for facilitating… and…
Prevention and early diagnosis of diseases
Management of chronic conditions
What are the concepts of digital health and how are they interconnected?
Information technology includes information and communication technologies
Telehealth includes mHealth (wearables, point-of-care testing), telemonitoring (telenursing, telemedecine), virtual care and teleconsultations
Medical and nursing informatics falls into the health informatics category, then eHealth, then digital health (also includes robotics, internet of things, AI)
What are the types of practical records of digital health in nursing?
Documentation and records (EMRs and EHRs)
Clinical decision support (references, EBP guidelines)
Patient-monitoring and diagnostics (inpatient, transition, outpatient)
Point-of-care testing
Medical administration
Digital health empowers patients. Explain.
Better access to their record and their healthcare provider
More engaged in managing their health because of tools and information.
What are barriers to patient access to digital health?
Digital divide (reliable internet access and availability of devices, everybody can benefit)
Unconscious bias (machines are blind to people, but biases may be programmed into technology)
Digital health literacy (seek, find, understand and appraise information, using technologies to address or solve a healthcare problem)
How does the Learning, readiness and timing relate to digital health?
Importance to seek, find, understand and appraise information, using ICTs to address or solve a healthcare problem
(Being ready to learn all that)
