WGU ILG D220 Information Technology in Nursing
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Lesson 1: Healthcare Data Foundations Objectives:
Describe the purposes for using health data.
Identify sources of health data
Describe data-informed decision-making processes in healthcare.
1. Healthcare Data
1. Define healthcare data: all information pertaining to an
individual's medical history, records, and other personal
information.
2. Describe the purpose of healthcare data related to nursing:
Through the information given, nursing can create a thorough
plan that helps patient outcomes, decrease unnecessary costs,
and development of better practices.
3. What are three examples of how healthcare data is used in your
workplace or clinical setting: readmission rates, patient
satisfaction scores, quality reporting (HAPI, CLABSI, CAUTI, etc.)
4. What are common healthcare professions that use healthcare
data: Nurses, doctors, PAs, administrators, radiologists
2. Importance of Data in Nursing
1. What are three examples of ways healthcare data has influenced
the patient care provided by nurses. The use of technology to
gather and analyze healthcare data and transform it into a
nursing process to improve delivery of patient care, it is used to
create clinical decision support tools that help guide clinical
practice and improve safety, medication use from a pharmacy
data base.
3. Data Framework
1. Define data framework using the reading. Data information
knowledge wisdom (DIKW) framework refers to the way data
becomes a product that can be used to positively affect patient
care.
2. What are the components of the DIKW framework. Data
information knowledge wisdom.
3. How does each component depend on the previous component:
D to I to K to W
Data are the most discrete components of the DIKW framework.
They are mostly presented as discrete observations with little
interpretation. These are the smallest factors describing the patient,
disease state, health environment, and so forth.
Information might be described as data plus meaning. A meaningful
clinical picture is constructed when different data points are put
together and presented in a specific context.
, Knowledge is information that has been processed and organized so
that relations and inter-actions are identified.
Wisdom: Application of knowledge to manage and solve problems
4. Informatics
1. Define Informatics using the reading: the science and art of
turning data into information. Data to info, Info to knowledge,
Knowledge to wisdom. Informatics is an interdisciplinary field
that draws from, as well as contributes to, “computer science,
decision science, information science, management science,
cognitive science, and organizational theory.”
2. Give an example of how informatics is used in your workplace or
clinical setting. Natural language processing, data mining,
research, decision support, and genomics.
3. What fields does health informatics include: Translational
bioinformatics, Clinical research informatics, Clinical informatics,
Consumer health informatics, Public health informatics.
5. Foundational Skills
1. Define foundational skills using the reading: the minimum
requirements/ skills needed for an information driven culture.
These include computer literacy, information literacy, and health
literacy for the consumer.
2. Give an example of how foundational skills are used in your
workplace or clinical setting. Foundational skills such as the
ability to read, write, and comprehend are needed to interpret
patient data and make appropriate and safe patient care
decisions.
3. Define Informatics Culture using the reading: “a vision to develop
the policies, funding, infrastructure, and education to instill the
knowledge and skills needed by all healthcare executives,
clinicians, and informaticists, and the tools to gather and analyze
amassed data.” all areas in which the application of new
information technologies will and might impact human culture
4. How does each of the foundational skills (computer, information,
and health literacy) help to create an informatics culture?
Computer literacy: the basic understanding and use of computers,
software tools, spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics, social
media, and communication via email.
Information literacy: the ability to read and understand the written
word and numbers as well as the ability to recognize when information
is needed.
Health literacy: Health literacy is the ability to understand and act
upon basic healthcare information
, Competency One: Explain Health Data
The learner explains how data factors into decision-making to promote high-
quality patient healthcare.
6. Ethical Use of Data and Information
a. Define ethical use of data and information using the AHIMA Code of
Ethics. Consistent with professional standards of practice and essential
to safe, efficient healthcare delivery, a learning healthcare delivery
system, attainment of optimal individual and population health
outcomes, and the transformation of the current, inefficient healthcare
delivery system to one that provides quality, personalized care, at
lower costs.
b. How can nurses be patient advocates in the area of ethical use of
data and information. As patient advocate, the nurse is charged with
protecting the health, safety, and rights of the patients. This protection
extends to information and the use of systems that house patient
information.
c. What ethical dilemmas in the use of data and information have you
encountered at your workplace or clinical setting? Sometimes data can be
used against staff for punitive reasons, privacy rights for close family members and
friends
d. What is the nurse’s primary role in the ethical use of data and
information? As patient advocate, the nurse is charged with protecting
the health, safety, and rights of the patients. This protection extends to
information and the use of systems that house patient information.
7. Learning Healthcare System
1. Define learning healthcare system using the reading: a health
system in which internal data and experience are systematically
integrated with external evidence, and that knowledge is put into
practice.
2. Give an example of how a learning healthcare system is modeled
in your workplace or clinical setting:
3. What is essential to a learning healthcare system?
8. Knowledge Worker
1. Define knowledge worker using the reading: When previous
knowledge and experience are applied appropriately to take
action or intervene in some way
2. Give an example of a knowledge worker in your workplace or
clinical setting: a seasoned nurse giving report and listing off
cardiovascular health: 78, 125/61, 2/2 pulse, etc. to the
untrained, this is just a rattling off numbers, to the trained, this
means HR, BP, how strong a pulse is, etc.
Practice|Questions With 100% Correct Answers |
Verified | Latest Update
Lesson 1: Healthcare Data Foundations Objectives:
Describe the purposes for using health data.
Identify sources of health data
Describe data-informed decision-making processes in healthcare.
1. Healthcare Data
1. Define healthcare data: all information pertaining to an
individual's medical history, records, and other personal
information.
2. Describe the purpose of healthcare data related to nursing:
Through the information given, nursing can create a thorough
plan that helps patient outcomes, decrease unnecessary costs,
and development of better practices.
3. What are three examples of how healthcare data is used in your
workplace or clinical setting: readmission rates, patient
satisfaction scores, quality reporting (HAPI, CLABSI, CAUTI, etc.)
4. What are common healthcare professions that use healthcare
data: Nurses, doctors, PAs, administrators, radiologists
2. Importance of Data in Nursing
1. What are three examples of ways healthcare data has influenced
the patient care provided by nurses. The use of technology to
gather and analyze healthcare data and transform it into a
nursing process to improve delivery of patient care, it is used to
create clinical decision support tools that help guide clinical
practice and improve safety, medication use from a pharmacy
data base.
3. Data Framework
1. Define data framework using the reading. Data information
knowledge wisdom (DIKW) framework refers to the way data
becomes a product that can be used to positively affect patient
care.
2. What are the components of the DIKW framework. Data
information knowledge wisdom.
3. How does each component depend on the previous component:
D to I to K to W
Data are the most discrete components of the DIKW framework.
They are mostly presented as discrete observations with little
interpretation. These are the smallest factors describing the patient,
disease state, health environment, and so forth.
Information might be described as data plus meaning. A meaningful
clinical picture is constructed when different data points are put
together and presented in a specific context.
, Knowledge is information that has been processed and organized so
that relations and inter-actions are identified.
Wisdom: Application of knowledge to manage and solve problems
4. Informatics
1. Define Informatics using the reading: the science and art of
turning data into information. Data to info, Info to knowledge,
Knowledge to wisdom. Informatics is an interdisciplinary field
that draws from, as well as contributes to, “computer science,
decision science, information science, management science,
cognitive science, and organizational theory.”
2. Give an example of how informatics is used in your workplace or
clinical setting. Natural language processing, data mining,
research, decision support, and genomics.
3. What fields does health informatics include: Translational
bioinformatics, Clinical research informatics, Clinical informatics,
Consumer health informatics, Public health informatics.
5. Foundational Skills
1. Define foundational skills using the reading: the minimum
requirements/ skills needed for an information driven culture.
These include computer literacy, information literacy, and health
literacy for the consumer.
2. Give an example of how foundational skills are used in your
workplace or clinical setting. Foundational skills such as the
ability to read, write, and comprehend are needed to interpret
patient data and make appropriate and safe patient care
decisions.
3. Define Informatics Culture using the reading: “a vision to develop
the policies, funding, infrastructure, and education to instill the
knowledge and skills needed by all healthcare executives,
clinicians, and informaticists, and the tools to gather and analyze
amassed data.” all areas in which the application of new
information technologies will and might impact human culture
4. How does each of the foundational skills (computer, information,
and health literacy) help to create an informatics culture?
Computer literacy: the basic understanding and use of computers,
software tools, spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics, social
media, and communication via email.
Information literacy: the ability to read and understand the written
word and numbers as well as the ability to recognize when information
is needed.
Health literacy: Health literacy is the ability to understand and act
upon basic healthcare information
, Competency One: Explain Health Data
The learner explains how data factors into decision-making to promote high-
quality patient healthcare.
6. Ethical Use of Data and Information
a. Define ethical use of data and information using the AHIMA Code of
Ethics. Consistent with professional standards of practice and essential
to safe, efficient healthcare delivery, a learning healthcare delivery
system, attainment of optimal individual and population health
outcomes, and the transformation of the current, inefficient healthcare
delivery system to one that provides quality, personalized care, at
lower costs.
b. How can nurses be patient advocates in the area of ethical use of
data and information. As patient advocate, the nurse is charged with
protecting the health, safety, and rights of the patients. This protection
extends to information and the use of systems that house patient
information.
c. What ethical dilemmas in the use of data and information have you
encountered at your workplace or clinical setting? Sometimes data can be
used against staff for punitive reasons, privacy rights for close family members and
friends
d. What is the nurse’s primary role in the ethical use of data and
information? As patient advocate, the nurse is charged with protecting
the health, safety, and rights of the patients. This protection extends to
information and the use of systems that house patient information.
7. Learning Healthcare System
1. Define learning healthcare system using the reading: a health
system in which internal data and experience are systematically
integrated with external evidence, and that knowledge is put into
practice.
2. Give an example of how a learning healthcare system is modeled
in your workplace or clinical setting:
3. What is essential to a learning healthcare system?
8. Knowledge Worker
1. Define knowledge worker using the reading: When previous
knowledge and experience are applied appropriately to take
action or intervene in some way
2. Give an example of a knowledge worker in your workplace or
clinical setting: a seasoned nurse giving report and listing off
cardiovascular health: 78, 125/61, 2/2 pulse, etc. to the
untrained, this is just a rattling off numbers, to the trained, this
means HR, BP, how strong a pulse is, etc.
