Final Exam Study Set_June 2025
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Nursing informatics - ✔✔specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science,
and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge
in nursing practice
Levels of Nursing Informatics Practice - ✔✔Generalist and Informatics Nurse Specialist
Informatics Nurse Specialist - ✔✔Completed graduate level education in informatics or
related field
Knowledge - ✔✔The awareness and understanding of a set of information and the ways
that information can be made useful to support a specific task or reach a decision.
Knowledge Workers - ✔✔Those who work with information and generate knowledge
as a product. Nurses are an example of such.
Wisdom - ✔✔the ability to apply valuable and viable knowledge, experience,
understanding and insight while being prudent and sensible. Sometimes considered the
highest form of "Common Sense"
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, Scientific Underpinning - ✔✔Provide the basis of knowledge to advance nursing
practice; include sciences such as biology, physiology, psychology, ethics, and nursing.
-DIKW Paradigm (Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom)
Foundation of Knowledge model - ✔✔Model that proposes that humans are organic
information systems constantly acquiring, processing, and generating information or
knowledge in both their professional and personal lives.
Computer Science - ✔✔Study of storage, conversion and transformation, transfer or
transmission of information in computers through algorithms and practical
implementation problems.
Cognitive Science - ✔✔Studies how the mind works from an information processing
perspective.
Information Science - ✔✔The study of the retrieval, application, use and management
of information as well as the human-computer interaction.
Standard Terminologies - ✔✔Structured, controlled languages developed to represent
concepts in a given domain in a clear, unambiguous fashion that conveys the exact
same meaning for data, information, and knowledge across settings, regions, and even
different countries.
Nomenclature - ✔✔Refers to a system of rules and procedures for adding names used
in an art or science, such as nursing.
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