Nursing Informatics Midterm: NR599
What are the general principles of nursing informatics? - correct answer ✔-
Integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to
identify, manage, define, and communicate data, information, knowledge,
wisdom, and nursing practice
-NI supports nurses, consumers, patients, the interprofessional team, and all
other stakeholders in their decision making in all roles and settings to achieve
desired outcomes
Knowledge - correct answer ✔The awareness and understanding of a set of
information and ways that information can be made useful to support a
specific task or arrive at a decision
Wisdom - correct answer ✔-Knowledge applied in a practical way
-The highest form of common sense
-Entails knowing when and how to apply knowledge
Scientific Underpinning - correct answer ✔-The foundation of nursing
science through research data, evidence, and idea creation
-The scientific underpinnings of practice provide the basis of knowledge for
advanced nursing practice. These scientific underpinnings include sciences
such as biology, physiology, psychology, ethics, and nursing.
The Foundation of Knowledge Model - correct answer ✔A model proposing
that humans are organic information systems constantly acquiring,
processing, generating, and disseminating information or knowledge in both
their professional and personal lives
, Computer Science - correct answer ✔-Studies the theory, underpinning
information, and computation and their implementation and computer systems
-Computers enable nurses to quickly access important information about your
health or illness and your treatment plan from your electronic health record.
Nurses can access information such as your laboratory test and x-ray results
and health reports from other health-care team members to give you the best
care possible.
Cognitive Science - correct answer ✔-How the human mind works from an
information processing perspective
-Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its
processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in
a broad sense). Cognitive scientists study intelligence and behavior, with a
focus on how nervous systems represent, process, and transform information.
Information Science - correct answer ✔-The retrieval and management of
information, as well as human computer interaction
-Information science is an academic field which is primarily concerned with
analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement,
dissemination, and protection of information.
Standard Terminology - correct answer ✔Structured, controlled languages
developed to represent concepts in a given domain in a clear fashion that
conveys the exact same meaning for data, information, and knowledge across
settings, regions, and even different countries
Why is standard terminology important? - correct answer ✔-Contribute to the
development of knowledge because they ensure that all professionals share
the same understanding or meaning of a given concept;
-Key to development of EHRs
-Support the collection of data that provide more information which could
increase patient outcomes and decrease health care costs
