NR599 Informatics Midterm Review Sheet
NR 599 Nursing Informatics for Advanced Practice
(Complete solutions and resources for the course exam)
, Informatics Midterm Review Sheet
1. General principles of Nursing Informatics:
2. Knowledge
o Awareness and understanding of a set of
information and ways that information can be made
useful to support a specific task or arrive at a
decision. This knowledge building is an ongoing
process engaged in while a person is conscious and
going about his or her normal daily activities.
3. Wisdom:
• Knowledge applied in a practical way or
translated into actions; the use of knowledge and
experience to heighten common sense and insight
so as to exercise sound judgment in practical
matters. Sometimes thought of as the highest
form of common sense, resulting from
accumulated knowledge or erudition (deep, thorough
learning) or enlightenment (education that results in
understanding and the dissemination of knowledge).
Wisdom is the ability to apply valuable and viable
knowledge, experience, understanding, and insight
while being prudent and sensible. It is focused on our
own minds; it is the synthesis of our experience,
insight, understanding, and knowledge. Wisdom is
the appropriate use of knowledge to solve human
problems. It is knowing when and how to apply
knowledge.
, 4. Scientific Underpinning:
• The scientific underpinnings of practice
provide the basis of knowledge for advanced
nursing practice.
These scientific underpinnings include sciences
such as biology, physiology, psychology, ethics,
and nursing.
• Nursing science, information science, and
computer science
5. The Foundation of Knowledge Model
• The Foundation of Knowledge model is also
introduced as the organizing conceptual framework
of this text, and the model is tied to nursing science
and the practice of nursing informatics.
6. Computer science:
o Branch of engineering (application of
science) that studies the theoretical
foundations of information and
computation and their implementation and
application in computer systems. The study
of storage/memory, conversion and
transformation, and transfer or transmission of
information in machines— that is, computers—
through both algorithms and practical
implementation problems. Algorithms are
detailed, unambiguous action sequences in the
design, efficiency, and application of computer
systems, whereas practical implementation
problems deal with the software and hardware.
•
7. Cognitive science:
o Interdisciplinary field that studies the mind,
intelligence, and behavior from an information
processing perspective.
8. Information science
o Information science enables the processing of
information. This processing links people and
technology. Humans are organic ISs, constantly
acquiring, processing, and generating information or
knowledge in their professional and personal lives.
This high degree of knowledge, in fact, characterizes
NR 599 Nursing Informatics for Advanced Practice
(Complete solutions and resources for the course exam)
, Informatics Midterm Review Sheet
1. General principles of Nursing Informatics:
2. Knowledge
o Awareness and understanding of a set of
information and ways that information can be made
useful to support a specific task or arrive at a
decision. This knowledge building is an ongoing
process engaged in while a person is conscious and
going about his or her normal daily activities.
3. Wisdom:
• Knowledge applied in a practical way or
translated into actions; the use of knowledge and
experience to heighten common sense and insight
so as to exercise sound judgment in practical
matters. Sometimes thought of as the highest
form of common sense, resulting from
accumulated knowledge or erudition (deep, thorough
learning) or enlightenment (education that results in
understanding and the dissemination of knowledge).
Wisdom is the ability to apply valuable and viable
knowledge, experience, understanding, and insight
while being prudent and sensible. It is focused on our
own minds; it is the synthesis of our experience,
insight, understanding, and knowledge. Wisdom is
the appropriate use of knowledge to solve human
problems. It is knowing when and how to apply
knowledge.
, 4. Scientific Underpinning:
• The scientific underpinnings of practice
provide the basis of knowledge for advanced
nursing practice.
These scientific underpinnings include sciences
such as biology, physiology, psychology, ethics,
and nursing.
• Nursing science, information science, and
computer science
5. The Foundation of Knowledge Model
• The Foundation of Knowledge model is also
introduced as the organizing conceptual framework
of this text, and the model is tied to nursing science
and the practice of nursing informatics.
6. Computer science:
o Branch of engineering (application of
science) that studies the theoretical
foundations of information and
computation and their implementation and
application in computer systems. The study
of storage/memory, conversion and
transformation, and transfer or transmission of
information in machines— that is, computers—
through both algorithms and practical
implementation problems. Algorithms are
detailed, unambiguous action sequences in the
design, efficiency, and application of computer
systems, whereas practical implementation
problems deal with the software and hardware.
•
7. Cognitive science:
o Interdisciplinary field that studies the mind,
intelligence, and behavior from an information
processing perspective.
8. Information science
o Information science enables the processing of
information. This processing links people and
technology. Humans are organic ISs, constantly
acquiring, processing, and generating information or
knowledge in their professional and personal lives.
This high degree of knowledge, in fact, characterizes
