Nursing informatics -: Integrates nursing science, computer science, and information
science, cognitive science
Nursing informatics -: Ethical application of knowledge, to provide services and
interventions, to maintain, enhance or restore health, to acquire, generate and
disseminate nursing knowledge
For information to be valuable -: it must be accessible, accurate, timely, complete,
cost-effective, flexible, reliable, relevant, simple verifiable, and secure.
Nursing Informatics -: Supports nurses, consumers, patients, interprofessional
healthcare team, and all other stakeholders in their decision making in all roles and
settings to achieve desired outcomes
Examples of EHR -: Bar code medication administration systems, clinical decision
support, patient monitoring and telehealth
Nursing informatics -: Refers to the science and art of turning data into information
Nursing Informatics -: Important to nursing for supporting the work and decision
making process for consumers and providers.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) -: Optimal patient care results form
QI processes, safety, collaboration, patient centered care, evidence based practice,
informatics
HIT -: plays a critical role in ensuring transparency, increasing efficiency, engaging
consumers, effectively manage cost and quality of car in the US.
Knowledge
Knowledge -: Others thoughts and information
Transparent knowledge / wisdom -: To act without thinking
To have value, knowledge must be -: Viable
Knowledge -: Awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that it
can be made useful to support a task or decision
Five rights of knowledge -: Right information, accessible by the right people, right
setting, applied the right way, at the right time
, Knowledge -: Awareness and understanding of an information set and ways that
information can be made useful to support a specific task or arrive at a decision.
Three sources of knowledge -: Instinct, reason, intuition
Wisdom -: Highest form of common sense
Wisdom -: Results from accumulated knowldege
Wisdom -: Ones own mind and the synthesis of experience, insight, understanding,
and knowledge
Wisdom -: Uses knowledge and experience to heighten common sense, and uses
insight to exercise sound judgement
Wisdom -: Knowledge applied in practical way or translated into action
Wisdom -: Knowing when and how to apply knowledge
DIKW -: Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
DIKW - Data -: Discrete facts. Product of observation with little interpretation.
Describes patient diagnosis, Iiving status, environments
DIKW - Information -: Data + meaning. Answers questions - who, what, when, where.
ICD10 diagnosis
DIKW - Knowledge -: Relations and interactions are defined and formalized
DIKW - Wisdom -: Uses of knowledge to manage and solve problems. Implies ethics.
Why it should or should not be implemented. Clinical judgement
AACN essentials -: Foundation includes natural and social sciences
Foundation of Knowledge Model -: Humans are organic information systems,
acquiring, processing, generating, and disseminating information
Computer science -: Information and computation and their implementation and
application in computer systems. Uses algorithms. Facilitates acquisition and
manipulation of data
Cognitive science -: Studies mind, intelligence, and behavior. Based from psychology,
philosophy, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, biology, physics.