Nursing Informatics Review

Flashcards to prepare for the Nursing Informatics exam.

Nursing science, computer science, and information science.

What three sciences does Nursing Informatics integrate according to the American Nurses Association?

The prevention of disease or disability, health promotion, and risk reduction.

What is the major focus of nursing research?

What four main concepts of nursing that need to be comprehensively defined, according to Fawcett?

Person, health, environment, and nursing.

The Human Caring Theory.

What theory emphasizes the spiritual dimension of human beings?

The development and testing of software and software systems, working with mathematical models, data analysis and security, algorithms, and computational theory.

What does computer science focus on?

Recordable information and knowledge, and the technologies and related services that facilitate their management and use.

What aspect of information is information science concerned with?

The integration of data, information, and knowledge to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making.

What does Nursing Informatics facilitate?

Clinical practice.

What is a Clinical Information System (CIS) designed to support?

Data, information, and knowledge into action.

What does NI represent the transition of?

Electronic Health Record

What is an EHR?

Information technology (IT), computer systems, nursing information systems (NISs), nursing applications, and/or nursing informatics (NI).

What terms does the term 'computer' encompass in nursing?

Manage information in patient care, Monitor the quality of care, Evaluate the outcomes of care, Communicate (sending/receiving) data and messages via the Internet, Access resources, Interact with patients on the World Wide Web (WWW), Plan, budget, and make policies for patient care services, Enhance nursing education and distance learning, Support nursing research, Test new systems, Design new knowledge databases, Advance the role of nursing in the health care industry.

List five uses of computers in nursing.

NI became an integral part of healthcare and was approved by the ANA as a new nursing specialty.

What milestones occurred in the 1990s regarding Nursing Informatics?

Practice, Education, Research, and Administration.

What are the four major nursing areas (PERA)?

Adequate records and documentation.

What did JCAHO stress the need for?

An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one health care organization.

What is information, as defined in the context of EHR?

Any form of education or learning that happens without the student being physically present in the lesson.

What is distance learning?

Schoology, Edmodo, WizIQ, Sakai, Kadenze

Name three platforms of the Learning Management System.

Learning on your own schedule, within a specific timeframe.

What is asynchronous learning?

Happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time.

What is synchronous learning?

An approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online with traditional place-based classroom methods.

What is blended learning?

Knowledge and ability to use a computer and other information and communication technology (ICT) effectively.

What does computer literacy mean?

Learner-content, Learner-learner, Learner-instructor, and Learner-interface.

What four types of interaction are defined in relation to Web-enhanced courses, according to Thurmond (2003)?

Physical distance, and Often time

List two essential elements differentiate distance education from the traditional classroom?

Life-saving, Timely/Cost-saving, Better Transitions, Motivating, Improve Population Health (address population needs)

What are the benefits of EHR?

Provide support to clinicians or other health care staff in clinical decisions

What it the purpoe of a Clinical Decision Support System?

Systems in which information and communication technologies operate on fields and processes related to nursing services

What are Information Systems in the context of nursing?

A system in which the patients who apply to health institutions and organizations can follow the treatment in the hospital and after the discharge.

What is the purpose of a Remote Patient Monitoring System?

A simulation created using computer graphics, sounds, and other sensors that have a real world-like appearance and interact with the user.

What is a virtual reality?

An electronic film archiving system that allows digital images to be served to users at different points when necessary

What is the purpose of Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

AN ACT PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS IN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR, CREATING FOR THIS PURPOSE A NATIONAL PRIVACY COMMISSION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

What is the purpose of RA 10173? (Data Privacy Act of 2012)

Personal Information: Any piece of information that can identify you as an individual or when put together with other information can ascertain your identity as a person. Sensitive Personal Information: Refers to any information that is private in nature, unique to the individual and that can be used to profile a person

What is the difference between Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information?

Natural or juridical person who CONTROLS the processing of personal data or instructs another to process personal data in its behalf.

What is the definition of Personal Information Controllers?

An individual whose personal, sensitive personal or privileged information is processed

What is the definition of Data Subject?

Natural or juridical person to whom a personal information controller may outsource or instruct the processing of personal data of a subject.

What is the definition of Personal Information Processors?

Right to be Informed, Right to Access, Right to Object, Right to Erasure, Right to Damages, Right to File a Complaint, Right to Rectify, Right to Data Portability

List five Rights as Data Subjects

Transparency, Legitimate Purpose and Proportionality

Name three Data Privacy Principles

A freely given, specific, informed indication of will, whereby the data subject agrees to the collection and processing of personal information about and/or relating to him/her.

What the definition of Consent in the context of RA 10173 Section 3b?

Information should not be made available or disclosed to unauthorized persons, entities or processes.

What does confidentiality ensures?

Information should be accurate, consistent, complete and should not be altered in the course of processing.

What does integrity ensure?

Information should be accessible and usable when required by authorized parties.

What ensure availability?

Compliance Focus on WHAT/HOW Doing WHAT is Required. Accountability Focus on WHO Doing ALL that is Necessary

Compliance vs. Accountability