NR599 Midterm content
communication software - Answer Technology programs used to transmit messages via
e-mail, telephonically, paging, broadcast (such as MP3), and Internet (such as instant
messaging, Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or listservs).
Communication Systems - Answer - collections of individual communications networks
and transmission systems
- ex in healthcare include: call light systems, wireless phones, pagers, e-mail, instant
messaging, and any other devices or networks that clinicians use to communicate with
patients, families, other professionals, and internal and external resources.
the thing that carries the message
communication systems targeting patients and their families - Answer - some patients
are now able to access their electronic chart from home via an internet connection.
- they can update their own medical record to inform their physicians of changes to their
health or personal practices that impact their physical condition.
- inpatients in hospitals may also receive individualized messages with scheduled tests,
procedures for the day and confirm menu choices for their meals.
- these systems may also communicate educational messages, such as smoking
cessation advice.
communication hub - Answer - a device that captures and assists in the transmission of
info from peripheral equipment.
- A processor organizes the data, appropriately encrypts the data to assure
confidentiality, and transmits the encrypted data to appropriate decision makers.
- data can be transmitted via traditional phone lines, through the internet or over
wireless networks.
- typically the hub will be a small box, to which peripheral equipment is connected.
Nursing Informatics (NI) - Answer - the specialty that integrates nursing science with
multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage,
and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.
- A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science
knowledge work/workers - Answer - the process of collecting data, turning it into
information and creating knowledge and ultimately wisdom
- technology can aid by helping nurses to collect data, see trends, process info and
create knowledge that can be used to create wisdom.
Nursing Informatics Competencies - Answer - a set of essential skills related to
informatics deemed appropriate for various levels of nursing practice.
- nursing is an information intensive profession
, - Establish a nursing language, develop methods to build clinical information databases,
determine how nurses give patient care using data, info, and knowledge, develop and
test patient care decisions support systems, develop workstations that provide nurses
with needed info, develop appropriate methods to evaluate nursing info system
nursing practice science - Answer the steps of using information, applying knowledge to
a problem and acting with wisdom is the basis of this.
Two core roles in nursing informatics - Answer 1. The informatics nurse specialist
2. the clinician (nurse) who must use health information technology.
Nursing science - Answer one of the building blocks for nursing informatics.
- the ethical application of knowledge acquired through education, research, and
practice to provide services and interventions to patients so as to maintain, enhance, or
restore health
- to advocate for health; and to acquire, process, generate, and disseminate nursing
knowledge to advance the nursing profession
computer science - Answer Studies the theory underpinning information and
computation and their implementation in computer systems; facets include hardware,
software, and communications as well as solutions to related problems (IT).
computer science - Answer a 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, transformation and transfer or transmission
of information in machines, that is, computers, through both algorithms and practical
implementation problems.
Algorithms - Answer detailed, unambiguous action sequences in the design, efficiency
and application of computer systems.
- differ from practical implementation problems which deal with the software and
hardware.
Central Processing Unit (CPU) - Answer or microprocessors
- Sometimes conceptualized as the "brain" of the computer, the processor is the
computer component that actually executes, calculates, and processes the binary
computer code (which consists of various configurations of 0s and 1s), instigated by the
operating system (OS) and other applications on the computer.
operating system - Answer The most important software on any computer. It is the very
first program to load on computer start-up and is fundamental for the operation of all
other software as well as the computer's hardware.
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - Answer - three axioms for effectiveness:
1. users must be an early and continuous focus during interface design
communication software - Answer Technology programs used to transmit messages via
e-mail, telephonically, paging, broadcast (such as MP3), and Internet (such as instant
messaging, Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or listservs).
Communication Systems - Answer - collections of individual communications networks
and transmission systems
- ex in healthcare include: call light systems, wireless phones, pagers, e-mail, instant
messaging, and any other devices or networks that clinicians use to communicate with
patients, families, other professionals, and internal and external resources.
the thing that carries the message
communication systems targeting patients and their families - Answer - some patients
are now able to access their electronic chart from home via an internet connection.
- they can update their own medical record to inform their physicians of changes to their
health or personal practices that impact their physical condition.
- inpatients in hospitals may also receive individualized messages with scheduled tests,
procedures for the day and confirm menu choices for their meals.
- these systems may also communicate educational messages, such as smoking
cessation advice.
communication hub - Answer - a device that captures and assists in the transmission of
info from peripheral equipment.
- A processor organizes the data, appropriately encrypts the data to assure
confidentiality, and transmits the encrypted data to appropriate decision makers.
- data can be transmitted via traditional phone lines, through the internet or over
wireless networks.
- typically the hub will be a small box, to which peripheral equipment is connected.
Nursing Informatics (NI) - Answer - the specialty that integrates nursing science with
multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage,
and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.
- A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science
knowledge work/workers - Answer - the process of collecting data, turning it into
information and creating knowledge and ultimately wisdom
- technology can aid by helping nurses to collect data, see trends, process info and
create knowledge that can be used to create wisdom.
Nursing Informatics Competencies - Answer - a set of essential skills related to
informatics deemed appropriate for various levels of nursing practice.
- nursing is an information intensive profession
, - Establish a nursing language, develop methods to build clinical information databases,
determine how nurses give patient care using data, info, and knowledge, develop and
test patient care decisions support systems, develop workstations that provide nurses
with needed info, develop appropriate methods to evaluate nursing info system
nursing practice science - Answer the steps of using information, applying knowledge to
a problem and acting with wisdom is the basis of this.
Two core roles in nursing informatics - Answer 1. The informatics nurse specialist
2. the clinician (nurse) who must use health information technology.
Nursing science - Answer one of the building blocks for nursing informatics.
- the ethical application of knowledge acquired through education, research, and
practice to provide services and interventions to patients so as to maintain, enhance, or
restore health
- to advocate for health; and to acquire, process, generate, and disseminate nursing
knowledge to advance the nursing profession
computer science - Answer Studies the theory underpinning information and
computation and their implementation in computer systems; facets include hardware,
software, and communications as well as solutions to related problems (IT).
computer science - Answer a 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, transformation and transfer or transmission
of information in machines, that is, computers, through both algorithms and practical
implementation problems.
Algorithms - Answer detailed, unambiguous action sequences in the design, efficiency
and application of computer systems.
- differ from practical implementation problems which deal with the software and
hardware.
Central Processing Unit (CPU) - Answer or microprocessors
- Sometimes conceptualized as the "brain" of the computer, the processor is the
computer component that actually executes, calculates, and processes the binary
computer code (which consists of various configurations of 0s and 1s), instigated by the
operating system (OS) and other applications on the computer.
operating system - Answer The most important software on any computer. It is the very
first program to load on computer start-up and is fundamental for the operation of all
other software as well as the computer's hardware.
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - Answer - three axioms for effectiveness:
1. users must be an early and continuous focus during interface design
