Week Twelve Flashcards
Goal of Nursing Informatics
To improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals by optimizing information management and communication.
Nursing Informatics
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 world wide
A specialty area of nursing practice dedicated to the optimal use of technology to support professional practice and optimal patient outcomes
integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice.
Facilitates the integration of data, information, and knowledge to support clients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making
Sciences that go into Nursing Informatics
Computer Science
Nursing Science
Information Science
How to meet the goals of nursing informatics
⏩by using information and technology in the direct provision of care
⏩establishing effective administrative systems, in managing and delivering educational experiences
⏩supporting life long learning
⏩supporting nursing research
What is the Canadian Institutes of Health Information?
National not-for-profit body that records, analyses, and disseminates essential data on Canada’s health system and Canadians’ health
Not initially geared to nursing data, but became more important to several issues directly influencing nursing (nursing workforce recruitment and retention)
What is the Canada Health Infoway?
Has National mandate to generate consensus on health information standards
Partnership between federal, provincial and territorial government
Has agenda/is the reason that EHR is being developed
What is the Electronic Health Record?
aka EHR Has six components: Patient registry Provider registry Diagnostic images Laboratory Results Drugs dispensed Clinical reports/immunization
What are the three components of the EHR that need development?
Storage
Point of care systems
Connection
What are the core components of the electronic health record?
Patient Registry Provider Registery Diagnostic Images Laboratory Results Drugs Dispensed Clinical Reports and immunization record
Informatics in the Canadian Health Care System
Standardizes nursing language
Increases visibility of nursing
Creation of Nursing Minimum Data Set
Health Information: Nursing Components
Client status
Nursing interventions
Client outcomes
Nursing intensity
Primary Nurse Identified
International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP)
Created in response to invisibility of nursing care
Standardization of nursing data for comparison, analysis and support of evidence-based practice
Capture nursing practice across practice settings, cultures, or languages and geographical settings
Health outcomes for better information and care project (HOBIC)
Project initiated by Ontario to enhance patient outcomes using nursing outcome documentation as indicators of success or to assist in areas for improvement
Multi-sectorial implementation
National e-Nursing Strategy
Nurses integrating ICT
Nurses have the information and knowledge
HR planning is supported
New models of nursing practice are supported
Nursing groups are well connected
ICT will improve quality of work environments
Canadian nurses will contribute to the global nursing community
NurseOne
Professional links
Professional development
Library
NurseConnect