QUIZ 1: INTRODUCTION TO NURSING SCIENCE AND INFORMATICS Flashcards
is a combination of the different established sciences which involve and affect the holistic care of the nurses towards the patient
Nursing Science
was considered as the first nurse scientist because of her work in scientific inquiry on data. She proved that mortality of patients in the hospitals reduced when the environment of the patient was clean. Sanitation, clean air, and clean water reduced the infection and therefore less patients died.
Florence Nightingale
the aim is to provide the best intervention or action that has been proven to be elective.
Evidence Based Practice
knowledge
Information
the study of computational systems for storing and retrieving information, especially scientific or technical information.
Information Science/ Informatics/ Computing
is deemed one of the founders of informatics. He was a German computer scientist, cyberneticist, and electrical engineer. He was an early and influential researcher of German computer science, and was the developer of the Lernmatrix, an early implementation of artificial neural networks. Steinbuch also wrote about the societal implications of modern media.
Karl Steinburch
a set of interrelated components that collect, manipulate, store data, distribute information to support decision making and provide a feedback mechanism to monitor performance.
Information System
consists of input/output device, processor, operating system and media devices.
Hardware
consists of various programs and procedures
Software
consists of data organized in the required structure
Database
consists of hubs, communication media and network devices
Network
consist of device operators, network administrators and system specialists.
People
year _ - First coined by Karl Steinbuch as “informatiks”
1957
year_ - Phillipe Dreyfus used “informatique”
1962
translated it into “informatics”
Water bauer
___, the study of complex systems, information and computation using applied mathematics, electrical engineering and software engineering techniques.
Computer science
___ is the study of the processing, management, and retrieval of information
Information science
In early 1992, __recognized nursing informatics as a specialty in nursing with a distinct body of knowledge. Unique among the healthcare professions, this designation as a specialty provided official recognition that nursing informatics is indeed a part of nursing and that it has a distinct scope of practice.
ANA
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond Imagination.”
Albert Einstein
____ also facilitates the creative process in nurses, affording amazing vehicles for patient education, teaching and learning, and providing general health promotion and prevention information on a global scale.
Technology