Informatics Quiz 2 Chapters 6&7

Ergonomics

the ability of equipment to allow us to do our jobs without physically hurting us.(on test)

Wisdom

the appropriate application of knowledge to the management and solution of human problem

The Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

defines informatics as "the discipline concerned with the study of information and manipulation of information via computer-based tools" (2006, p. 44).

Metaparadigm

describes what we think nursing entails

1. decision-making 2. to improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals by optimizing information management and communication. 3.

1. NI supports consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers in their what in all roles and settings? 2. The goal of NI is to what? 3. With the development of the EHR, it became apparent that nursing needed its own language for this evolving field. NI was instrumental in this development.

1. Nursing knowledge 6.The Informatics Nurse Specialist (INS)

1. __________ is gained by the ability to extract data that specifically defines nursing phenomena. 2. Many different languages and ways of organizing data, information and knowledge create difficulties in mapping nursing phenomena. 3. The ANA has formalized the recognition of nursing taxonomies and nomenclatures (languages/vocabularies) through a review process of the Committee on Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure (CNPII). At a higher level of structure, several resources have developed to facilitate interoperability between different types of systems, concepts and nomenclatures. The importance of developing universal languages and vocabularies cannot be understated. 6. must attempt to envision the differing functions that may be used with the data, information and knowledge that have been created.

Construct

An idea or theory containing various conceptual elements, typically considered to be subjective and not based on empirical evidence

Data

discrete entities that are described objectively without interpretation

decision making

The science of nursing informatics has added a new nursing construct to the original four: nurse, person, health, and environment

Nurse Person Health Environment

Constructs of the Traditional Nursing MetaParadigm

informatique

The term informatics was derived from the French term, which means to refer to the computer milieu (Saba, 2001).

curtail healthcare fraud and abuse enforce standards for health information guarantee the security and privacy of health information assure health insurance portability for employed persons.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) intent was to

The first is through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The ANCC exam is specific for the informatics nurse. The applicant must be a licensed registered nurse (RN) with at least 2 years of recent experience and have a baccalaureate degree in nursing (BS/BSN). The applicant must have completed 30 contact hours of continuing education in informatics. The second certification exam is sponsored by HIMSS. Candidates who successfully pass this exam will carry the designation of certified professional in healthcare information and management systems (CPHIMS).

Nurses who choose to specialize in nursing informatics have two certifications available to them.

1) When the nurse is caring for an individual patient, evidence based information (content) and patient data need to be available at the point of care to inform the present patient encounter. 2) Patient data that are entered by the nurse need to be entered in such a manner that they are able to be aggregated to inform future patient encounters.

There is a dual role for accessing and using information (content) in health care

data knowledge information wisdom

What are the metastructures of NI?

Information

data that are interpreted, organized, or structured

Paradigm

a framework containing all of the commonly accepted views on a particular subject, a set of concepts or thought patterns

Personal

access to a personal repository of clinical experiences and reactions.

Empirics

access to factual knowledge derived from repositories of aggregated clinical research findings and integrated with the CIS

Esthetics

access to multicultural practices and beliefs

Ethics

access to standards of ethical practice, but also access to experts in the field of moral reasoning to guide interaction.

decision support system

are computer application designed to facilitate human decision making processes; are typically rule-based, using a specified knowledge base and a set of rules to analyze data and information and provide recommendations.

Information tools and methods from computer and information sciences

are considered fundamental elements of NI.

Metastructures

are overarching concepts used in theory and science.

Nursing Informatics

centers on the concepts of data, information, knowledge and wisdom; is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice; is governed by standards established by the American Nurses Association; Considered to be a specialty area but all nurses must have some basic knowledge of the field.

an information system (IS)

collects and processes data and information.

HCI, usability, and ergonomics

concepts are of fundamental interest to the INS; are related concepts typically subsumed under the rubric of human factors or how humans and technology relate to each other. The overall goal is better design for software, devices, and equipment to promote optimal task completion in various contexts or environments. Optimal task completion includes the concepts of efficiency and effectiveness, including considerations about the safety of the user.

Computer Science

focuses on the study of the theoretical foundations of computation processes and of practical techniques for their application in computer systems.

Information Technology

includes computer hardware, software, communication, and network technologies, derived primarily from computer science.

Knowledge

information that is synthesized to identify and formalize relationships

Information Science

is a interdisciplinary science concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information.

An expert system

is a type of decision support system that implements the knowledge of one or more human experts.

Information managment

is an elemental process within informatics in which one is able to file, store, and manipulate data for various uses.

Knowledge Worker

is defined as nonrepetitive, nonroutine work that entails a significant amount of cognitive activity

Nurses decision making

is described as an array of decisions that include specific behaviors, as well as cognitive processes surrounding a cluster of issues.

Wisdom in informatics

is the ability of the NIS to evaluate the documentation drawn from a Health Information System (HIS) and the ability to adapt or change the system settings or parameters to improve the workflow of the clinical nurse.

critical thinking

is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully using knowledge.

Usability

issues address the efficiency and effectiveness of an application.

Information structures

organize data, information, and knowledge for processing by computers.

Human-computer interaction (HCI),

usability and ergonomics concepts are of fundamental interest to the INS.(on test); Elements this are rooted in psychology, social psychology and/or cognitive science; deals with people, software applications, computer technology, and the ways they influence each other;