NR512 WEEK 2 INFORMATICS KEY TERMS QUIZ
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
◉ Next-Generation Internet. Answer: A government project to
develop new, faster technologies to enhance research and
communication.
◉ Outcome. Answer: Changes, results, and/or impacts from
inputting and processing.
◉ Borrowed theory. Answer: Theories borrowed or made use of
from other disciplines. As nursing began to evolve, theories from
other disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology) were adopted to try to
empirically describe, explain, or predict nursing phenomena. As
nursing theories continue to be developed, nurses are now
questioning whether these borrowed theories were sufficient or
satisfactory in their relation to the nursing phenomena they were
used to describe, explain, or predict.
◉ Building blocks. Answer: Basic element or part of nursing
informatics such as information science, computer science, cognitive
science, and nursing science.
,◉ Clinical Databases. Answer: A collection of related patient records
stored in a computer system using software that permits a person or
program to query the data to extract needed patient information.
◉ Clinical Practice Guidelines. Answer: Informal or formal rules or
guiding principles that a healthcare provider uses when determining
diagnostic tests and treatment strategies for individual patients. In
the electronic health record, they are included in a variety of ways
such as prompts, pop-ups, and text messages.
◉ Conceptual Framework. Answer: Framework used in research to
chart feasible courses of action or to present a desired approach to a
study or analysis; built from a set of concepts that are related to a
proposed or existing system of methods, behaviors, functions,
relationships, and objects. A relational model. A formal way of
thinking or conceptualizing about a phenomenon, process, or system
under study.
◉ Data. Answer: Raw facts that lack meaning.
◉ Data Mining. Answer: A process of utilizing software to sort
through data so as to discover patterns and ascertain or establish
relationships. This process may help to discover or uncover
previously unidentified relationships among the data in a database.
,◉ Evidence. Answer: Artifacts, productions, attestations, or other
examples that demonstrate an individual's knowledge, skills, or
valued attributes.
◉ Feedback. Answer: Input in the form of opinions about or
reactions to something such as shared knowledge. In an information
system, feedback refers to information from the system that is used
to make modifications in the input, processing actions, or outputs.
◉ Foundation of Knowledge Model. Answer: Model proposing that
humans are organic information systems constantly acquiring,
processing, and generating information or knowledge in both their
professional and personal lives. The organizing framework of this
text.
◉ Information. Answer: Data that are interpreted, organized, or
structured. Data processed using knowledge or data made functional
through the application of knowledge.
◉ Knowledge. 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; abounds with others'
thoughts and information. Information that is synthesized so that
relationships are identified and formalized. Understanding that
comes through a process of interaction or experience with the world
around us. Information that has judgment applied to it or meaning
extracted from it. Processed information that helps to clarify or
, explain some portion of our environment or world that we can use
as a basis for action or upon which we can act. Internal process of
thinking or cognition. External process of testing, senses,
observation, and interacting.
◉ Knowledge Acquisition. Answer: The act of getting knowledge
◉ Knowledge Dissemination. Answer: Distribution and sharing of
knowledge.
◉ Knowledge Generation. Answer: The creation of new knowledge
by changing and evolving knowledge based on one's experience,
education, and input from others.
◉ Knowledge Processing. Answer: The activity or process of
gathering or collecting, perceiving, analyzing, synthesizing, saving or
storing, manipulating, conveying, and transmitting knowledge.
◉ Knowledge Worker. Answer: Those who work with information
and generate information and knowledge as a product.
◉ Nursing Informatics. Answer: A specialty that integrates nursing
science, computer science, and information science to manage and
communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing
practice
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
◉ Next-Generation Internet. Answer: A government project to
develop new, faster technologies to enhance research and
communication.
◉ Outcome. Answer: Changes, results, and/or impacts from
inputting and processing.
◉ Borrowed theory. Answer: Theories borrowed or made use of
from other disciplines. As nursing began to evolve, theories from
other disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology) were adopted to try to
empirically describe, explain, or predict nursing phenomena. As
nursing theories continue to be developed, nurses are now
questioning whether these borrowed theories were sufficient or
satisfactory in their relation to the nursing phenomena they were
used to describe, explain, or predict.
◉ Building blocks. Answer: Basic element or part of nursing
informatics such as information science, computer science, cognitive
science, and nursing science.
,◉ Clinical Databases. Answer: A collection of related patient records
stored in a computer system using software that permits a person or
program to query the data to extract needed patient information.
◉ Clinical Practice Guidelines. Answer: Informal or formal rules or
guiding principles that a healthcare provider uses when determining
diagnostic tests and treatment strategies for individual patients. In
the electronic health record, they are included in a variety of ways
such as prompts, pop-ups, and text messages.
◉ Conceptual Framework. Answer: Framework used in research to
chart feasible courses of action or to present a desired approach to a
study or analysis; built from a set of concepts that are related to a
proposed or existing system of methods, behaviors, functions,
relationships, and objects. A relational model. A formal way of
thinking or conceptualizing about a phenomenon, process, or system
under study.
◉ Data. Answer: Raw facts that lack meaning.
◉ Data Mining. Answer: A process of utilizing software to sort
through data so as to discover patterns and ascertain or establish
relationships. This process may help to discover or uncover
previously unidentified relationships among the data in a database.
,◉ Evidence. Answer: Artifacts, productions, attestations, or other
examples that demonstrate an individual's knowledge, skills, or
valued attributes.
◉ Feedback. Answer: Input in the form of opinions about or
reactions to something such as shared knowledge. In an information
system, feedback refers to information from the system that is used
to make modifications in the input, processing actions, or outputs.
◉ Foundation of Knowledge Model. Answer: Model proposing that
humans are organic information systems constantly acquiring,
processing, and generating information or knowledge in both their
professional and personal lives. The organizing framework of this
text.
◉ Information. Answer: Data that are interpreted, organized, or
structured. Data processed using knowledge or data made functional
through the application of knowledge.
◉ Knowledge. 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; abounds with others'
thoughts and information. Information that is synthesized so that
relationships are identified and formalized. Understanding that
comes through a process of interaction or experience with the world
around us. Information that has judgment applied to it or meaning
extracted from it. Processed information that helps to clarify or
, explain some portion of our environment or world that we can use
as a basis for action or upon which we can act. Internal process of
thinking or cognition. External process of testing, senses,
observation, and interacting.
◉ Knowledge Acquisition. Answer: The act of getting knowledge
◉ Knowledge Dissemination. Answer: Distribution and sharing of
knowledge.
◉ Knowledge Generation. Answer: The creation of new knowledge
by changing and evolving knowledge based on one's experience,
education, and input from others.
◉ Knowledge Processing. Answer: The activity or process of
gathering or collecting, perceiving, analyzing, synthesizing, saving or
storing, manipulating, conveying, and transmitting knowledge.
◉ Knowledge Worker. Answer: Those who work with information
and generate information and knowledge as a product.
◉ Nursing Informatics. Answer: A specialty that integrates nursing
science, computer science, and information science to manage and
communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing
practice
