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Technology programs used to transmit messages via e-mail, telephonically, paging, broadcast
communication software
(such as MP3), and Internet (such as instant messaging, Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or listservs).
- collections of individual communications networks and transmission systems
- ex in healthcare include: call light systems, wireless phones, pagers, e-mail, instant messaging,
Communication Systems and any other devices or networks that clinicians use to communicate with patients, families,
other professionals, and internal and external resources.
the thing that carries the message
- some patients are now able to access their electronic chart from home via an internet
connection.
- they can update their own medical record to inform their physicians of changes to their health
communication systems targeting patients and
or personal practices that impact their physical condition.
their families
- inpatients in hospitals may also receive individualized messages with scheduled tests,
procedures for the day and confirm menu choices for their meals.
- these systems may also communicate educational messages, such as smoking cessation advice.
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, - a device that captures and assists in the transmission of info from peripheral equipment.
- A processor organizes the data, appropriately encrypts the data to assure confidentiality, and
transmits the encrypted data to appropriate decision makers.
communication hub
- data can be transmitted via traditional phone lines, through the internet or over wireless
networks.
- typically the hub will be a small box, to which peripheral equipment is connected.
- the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and
analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge
Nursing Informatics (NI)
and wisdom in nursing practice.
- A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science
- the process of collecting data, turning it into information and creating knowledge and ultimately
wisdom
knowledge work/workers
- technology can aid by helping nurses to collect data, see trends, process info and create
knowledge that can be used to create wisdom.
- a set of essential skills related to informatics deemed appropriate for various levels of nursing
practice.
- nursing is an information intensive profession
Nursing Informatics Competencies - Establish a nursing language, develop methods to build clinical information databases,
determine how nurses give patient care using data, info, and knowledge, develop and test patient
care decisions support systems, develop workstations that provide nurses with needed info,
develop appropriate methods to evaluate nursing info system
the steps of using information, applying knowledge to a problem and acting with wisdom is the
nursing practice science
basis of this.
1. The informatics nurse specialist
Two core roles in nursing informatics
2. the clinician (nurse) who must use health information technology.
one of the building blocks for nursing informatics.
- the ethical application of knowledge acquired through education, research, and practice to
Nursing science provide services and interventions to patients so as to maintain, enhance, or restore health
- to advocate for health; and to acquire, process, generate, and disseminate nursing knowledge
to advance the nursing profession
Studies the theory underpinning information and computation and their implementation in
computer science computer systems; facets include hardware, software, and communications as well as solutions to
related problems (IT).
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