NR360 Week 1: Intro to Information Systems

What is Nursing Informatics?

Optimizing information management and communication for better client safety and care, through technical skills and safe use usage of data or information

What are the 3 Competencies of Nursing Informatics?

Computer Skills

Informatics Knowledge

Informatics Skills

What is Computer Fluency?

More than just completing a task on a computer. Nurses must be able to use a computer to find information quickly and operating on software for spreadsheets and presentations.

What does KSAs stand for.

Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes

Key national groups that promote and support the use of informatics in nursing education and professional practice. What is this group called?

National Stakeholders

What groups are considered National Stakeholders?

• American Nursing Association (ANA),

• The National League for Nursing (NLN),

• Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN),

• Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative

• The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

This group was designed for bringing healthcare professionals to come up with visions and goals to improve nursing practice and education through health information technology. What group of national stakeholders is this?

Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative

This group created “The Essentials”, which formed a framework for designing and assessing baccalaureate education programs of professional nursing practice. What group of national stakeholders is this?

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

What is Information Literacy?

Finding important quality information using computer systems. This involves searching techniques on a library databases and the internet. Making sure the information found is reliable for nurses to use wisely.

Computers are there to facilitate nursing care and not to replace it.

Information Literacy

Tasks that can’t be done by computers:

• ethical decision-making process

• recognizing the value of clinicians’ knowledge and skills in the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems in healthcare

• Compared to a nurse, they cant manage computerized information and the determine the limitations and reliability of computerized patient monitoring systems

What is Informatics Literacy?

Integrating health information in computerize systems to improve information management and client safety

The goal is to use technology effectively to retrieve and manage information for better client outcomes.

True or False

Informatics doesn’t play a crucial part in new technological advancements in healthcare orgs.

False

New tech aims to provide quick access to client information, improve efficiency, and reduce errors

Why does informatics matter in Nursing Care?

Competency in nursing informatics helps to facilitate our clinical decision-making skills. How care is delivered, how resources are managed, and how interprofessional teams function are all influenced by informatics

What are nurses called when they are using data, information, knowledge and wisdom to provide safe quality care?

Knowledge workers

What is Data?

Described objectively without interpretation (number or symbols)

Ex: Documenting vital signs is objective data. This data is documented in numbers on the client’s chart or electronic health record

What is Information?

Data that has been interpreted, organized, or structured

Ex: You see the vital signs data and how it is organized in the client’s chart or electronic health record (EHR). You also see the EHR “flagging” the heart rate if it is low or high based on set parameters and alarm sounds. The EHR has programmable parameters that interpret it as a “high” number by coloring it red and/or alerting a healthcare provider via an alarm. 

What is Knowledge?

Synthesized information that used to find relationships made about the information and formalized.

Ex: You identify that your client’s heart rate has continued to increase over the last eight (8) hours, and your client remains tachycardic. You assess the situation, synthesize the trending information, and try to determine a reason for the tachycardia. 

What is Wisdom?

Use of knowledge to manage and solve problems using insight, reflection, and experience.

What are the different steps of Clinical Judgment?

Recognizing cues

Analyzing cues

Prioritize Hypotheses

Generate Solutions

Take Actions

Evaluate Outcomes

A nurse having high empirical knowledge to understand the client care situation. Which step of the Clinical Judgment is this demonstrating?

Recognizing and Analyzing Cues

A nurse applying knowledge, professional nursing values, and associated actions to prioritize care. Which step of the Clinical Judgment is this demonstrating?

Prioritize Hypotheses

A nurse being able to analyze and predict the outcome actions with high level of accuracy. Which step of the Clinical Judgment is this demonstrating?

Generate Solutions

A nurse have the mean to implement or carry out the selected interventions in the healthcare environment. Which step of the Clinical Judgment is this demonstrating?

Taking Action

True or False

Processing or managing situational data, information, and knowledge are essential to the delivery of safe, competent, quality care.

True

What forms the basis of the nursing practice science?

using data and information

apply knowledge to solve problems

use past experience and wisdom

What does it mean when stated “Ways of Knowing”?

how individuals achieve knowledge about the world and environment, as well their relationship with it.

Why is applying technology so important to client care?

To help identify potential problems early.

Ex: Trending of client data, such as vital signs, is accessible and systematically organized for the nurse to interpret results. The nurse can use this trending data to formalize an appropriate plan of care using evidence-based practice (EBP).​ This can improve outcomes and promote best practices through technology use. Privacy and confidentiality are always important factors as nurses utilize and store data. 

What is Information Science?

Processing information by connecting people and technology

What the different types of disciplines that information science come from?

computer science

cognitive science

social science

communication science

library science

Why are computers a major component for nurses who are using computer science?

Computer and information systems enable healthcare providers to turn data and information into evolving knowledge and wisdom.

Note: Computers are there only to provide information, but not replace critical thinking, practice skills, interpret data of healthcare workers