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what is information literacy? - ✔✔The ability to recognize when info is needed as well as the skills to
find, evaluate, and use the needed info effectively.
How does info literacy support EBP in nursing? - ✔✔Nurses can use research and apply/consult
resources/peers/internet
what is nursing informatics? - ✔✔A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and
information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in
nursing practice.
what is information? - ✔✔Data that has been interpreted
how is info related to data? - ✔✔info is data interpreted
what is information science? - ✔✔focus on how to gather, process, and transform info into
knowledge. Incorporates: communication science, computer science, social science, library science,
and cognitive science
How is using the EHR to document care of a patient with a femur fracture an example of using the
EHR in which way? - ✔✔Information system. Decubitus ulcer can be documented in the EHR because
of information system
what is information management? - ✔✔Elemental process within informatics where one can file,
store, and manipulate data
what is knowledge vs wisdom? - ✔✔wisdom is knowledge that is applied in an appropriate manner
What are common features of health info systems? - ✔✔Comprehensive medical history, unique way
they function and provide info to clinicians, collect/process/distribute data to manage and provide
care
what ROM is used by a computer when its turned on? - ✔✔BIOS input/output system
, what is cognitive informatics? - ✔✔Study of the connection between the brains and minds way of
collecting and processing info
What is connectionism? - ✔✔Component of cognitive science that uses computer modeling thru
artificial neural networks to try and explain human intellectual abilities
what is ethics? - ✔✔process of various ways of understanding and examining moral life
what is morals? - ✔✔social convention of right and wrong human conduct; forms a general stable
agreement
what is principlism? - ✔✔theoretical framework that emerged as a foundation for ethical decision
making
what is usability? - ✔✔ease of learning a computer application and other issues of human
performance
what is the metaparadigm? - ✔✔key concepts of Person, Nursing, Environment, Health
what is decision support system? - ✔✔rule based system that uses a knowledge base and set of rules
to make action recommendations
how can using simulation technology with your patients improve overall outcomes? - ✔✔by allowing
hands on practice and immediate feedback of the skill being learned
what are knowledge workers? - ✔✔nurses in this type of role are continuous learners, use
technology to support and inform nursing practice, and generate knowledge as a product
what is a nurse's primary resource? - ✔✔Information
What should an experienced nurse know how to do? - ✔✔Pull trends out of data
what is information literacy? - ✔✔The ability to recognize when info is needed as well as the skills to
find, evaluate, and use the needed info effectively.
How does info literacy support EBP in nursing? - ✔✔Nurses can use research and apply/consult
resources/peers/internet
what is nursing informatics? - ✔✔A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and
information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in
nursing practice.
what is information? - ✔✔Data that has been interpreted
how is info related to data? - ✔✔info is data interpreted
what is information science? - ✔✔focus on how to gather, process, and transform info into
knowledge. Incorporates: communication science, computer science, social science, library science,
and cognitive science
How is using the EHR to document care of a patient with a femur fracture an example of using the
EHR in which way? - ✔✔Information system. Decubitus ulcer can be documented in the EHR because
of information system
what is information management? - ✔✔Elemental process within informatics where one can file,
store, and manipulate data
what is knowledge vs wisdom? - ✔✔wisdom is knowledge that is applied in an appropriate manner
What are common features of health info systems? - ✔✔Comprehensive medical history, unique way
they function and provide info to clinicians, collect/process/distribute data to manage and provide
care
what ROM is used by a computer when its turned on? - ✔✔BIOS input/output system
, what is cognitive informatics? - ✔✔Study of the connection between the brains and minds way of
collecting and processing info
What is connectionism? - ✔✔Component of cognitive science that uses computer modeling thru
artificial neural networks to try and explain human intellectual abilities
what is ethics? - ✔✔process of various ways of understanding and examining moral life
what is morals? - ✔✔social convention of right and wrong human conduct; forms a general stable
agreement
what is principlism? - ✔✔theoretical framework that emerged as a foundation for ethical decision
making
what is usability? - ✔✔ease of learning a computer application and other issues of human
performance
what is the metaparadigm? - ✔✔key concepts of Person, Nursing, Environment, Health
what is decision support system? - ✔✔rule based system that uses a knowledge base and set of rules
to make action recommendations
how can using simulation technology with your patients improve overall outcomes? - ✔✔by allowing
hands on practice and immediate feedback of the skill being learned
what are knowledge workers? - ✔✔nurses in this type of role are continuous learners, use
technology to support and inform nursing practice, and generate knowledge as a product
what is a nurse's primary resource? - ✔✔Information
What should an experienced nurse know how to do? - ✔✔Pull trends out of data
