Nursing Informatics Midterm: NR599
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What are the general principles of nursing informatics? - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔-Knowledge applied in a practical way
-The highest form of common sense
-Entails knowing when and how to apply knowledge
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, Scientific Underpinning - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-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).
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Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
What are the general principles of nursing informatics? - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔-Knowledge applied in a practical way
-The highest form of common sense
-Entails knowing when and how to apply knowledge
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, Scientific Underpinning - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-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).
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