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NSG 130 Informatics- FINAL Exam Study Guide
Solutions
biomedical informatics - Ans:✔✔-interdisciplinary science that deals with biomedical information, its
structure, acquisition and use
Nursing informatics (NI) - Ans:✔✔-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.
clinical information system - Ans:✔✔-allows multiple disciplines to simultaneously access the patient's
chart and record data that can be viewed and analyzed by a number of healthcare providers in real time,
providing the most accurate and current information about the patient so that the best decisions about
the care of that patient can be made.
electronic medical records (EMRs) - Ans:✔✔-Focus on diagnosis and treatment. They can help track
information over time. Identify when patients are due for routine preventive and maintenance. Designed
to stay within a clinical setting.
electronic health records (EHRs) - Ans:✔✔-give a broader view of the patient's health. Designed so that
multiple clinician's from multiple disciplines can all have simultaneous access to the patient's health
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information. advantage is e-prescribing where doctors can communicate. Provides pt.'s with more
management of their health.
E-Health - Ans:✔✔-uses electronic information that can be retrieved online or through a mobile device
to improve a person's health or healthcare.
Presencing - Ans:✔✔-involves the interpersonal arts of perception and communication. "Being there for
the pt. without judging, letting the pt. lead"
empowerment - Ans:✔✔-process whereby the pt. develops the autonomy to identify her own health
needs in lieu of being instructed how to do so
compassion - Ans:✔✔-involves providing comfort to the pt., anything from validating the pt.'s
experience through attentive listening and eye contact to holding the patient's hand in moment of pain,
from adjusting the bed position, or providing a warm sponge bath.
competence - Ans:✔✔-the ability of a nurse to effectively demonstrate a set of attributes, such as
personal characteristics.
ageism - Ans:✔✔-prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age
advocacy - Ans:✔✔-act or process of supporting, defending, or assisting in another's cause.
Patient Advocacy - Ans:✔✔-process or strategy for acting on behalf of others to help them obtain
services and rights that they might not otherwise receive but that they need to advance their well being.
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