NR599 Nursing Informatics. Mid
Term_2025
Nursing informatics - answer specialty that integrates nursing science, computer
science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and
knowledge in nursing practice
Levels of Nursing Informatics Practice - answer Generalist and Informatics Nurse
Specialist
Informatics Nurse Specialist - answerCompleted graduate level education in informatics
or related field
Knowledge - answerThe awareness and understanding of a set of information and the
ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decision.
Knowledge Workers - answerThose who work with information and generate knowledge
as a product. Nurses are an example of such.
Wisdom - answerthe ability to apply valuable and viable knowledge, experience,
understanding and insight while being prudent and sensible. Sometimes considered the
highest form of "Common Sense"
Scientific Underpinning - answerProvide the basis of knowledge for advanced nursing
practice; include sciences such as biology, physiology, psychology, ethics, and nursing.
Foundation of Knowledge model - answerModel that proposes that humans are organic
information systems constantly acquiring, processing, and generating information or
knowledge in both their professional and personal lives.
Computer Science - answerStudy of storage, conversion and transformation and
transfer or transmission of information in machines (computers) through algorithms and
practical implementation problems.
Cognitive Science - answerHow the mind works from an information processing
perspective.
Information Science - answerThe study of the retrieval, application, use and
management of information as well as the human-computer interaction.
Standard Terminologies - answerStructured, controlled languages developed to
represent concepts in a given domain in a clear, unambiguous fashion that conveys the
Term_2025
Nursing informatics - answer specialty that integrates nursing science, computer
science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and
knowledge in nursing practice
Levels of Nursing Informatics Practice - answer Generalist and Informatics Nurse
Specialist
Informatics Nurse Specialist - answerCompleted graduate level education in informatics
or related field
Knowledge - answerThe awareness and understanding of a set of information and the
ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decision.
Knowledge Workers - answerThose who work with information and generate knowledge
as a product. Nurses are an example of such.
Wisdom - answerthe ability to apply valuable and viable knowledge, experience,
understanding and insight while being prudent and sensible. Sometimes considered the
highest form of "Common Sense"
Scientific Underpinning - answerProvide the basis of knowledge for advanced nursing
practice; include sciences such as biology, physiology, psychology, ethics, and nursing.
Foundation of Knowledge model - answerModel that proposes that humans are organic
information systems constantly acquiring, processing, and generating information or
knowledge in both their professional and personal lives.
Computer Science - answerStudy of storage, conversion and transformation and
transfer or transmission of information in machines (computers) through algorithms and
practical implementation problems.
Cognitive Science - answerHow the mind works from an information processing
perspective.
Information Science - answerThe study of the retrieval, application, use and
management of information as well as the human-computer interaction.
Standard Terminologies - answerStructured, controlled languages developed to
represent concepts in a given domain in a clear, unambiguous fashion that conveys the
