Nursing Informatics Notes

Nursing informatics is the integration of nursing science, computer science, and information science.
It focuses on managing and communicating data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice.
It promotes the generation, management, and processing of relevant data.
It supports nursing in all practice domains by facilitating the use of information and the development of knowledge.
It integrates data, information, and knowledge to support clients, nurses, and other providers in decision-making across various roles and settings.

Nurses need to develop competencies in informatics.
This includes both knowledge and skills to use information and communication technologies.
It involves the ability to enter, retrieve, and manipulate data.

Computer literacy
Information literacy
The ability to use informatics strategies and system applications to manage data, information, and knowledge

The relationship between computer literacy, information literacy, and nursing informatics is crucial.
- Nursing Informatics leverages both Computer Literacy and Information Literacy

Information Literacy is the ability to use the tools of automation in the process of accessing, evaluating, and using information.

Computer Literacy is the ability to perform computer operations at a skill level high enough to meet the demands of society.

The ability to use the internet is an essential skill for both nursing students and nurses.
It supports the development of skills in using essential tools for professionals.

Internet applications use the internet for operating successfully.
They are used for fetching, sharing, and displaying information from server systems.
They can only be accessed with internet facility; they cannot function without it.
These applications can be classified as:
- Electronic devices based
- Automated digital technology
- Industrial internet
- Smartphones based
- Smart home based
- Smart grids
- Smart city

A mobile device functioning as a personal information manager.
Smartphones, especially those based on iOS or Android, have mostly replaced them.
Pocket-sized computers capable of accessing the internet, sending data, and storing textbooks worth of information.
These tools have the potential to help nurses increase the quality of care they provide in the hospital setting.
They can reduce medical errors, provide access to patient’s laboratory values, facilitate charting, and send prescriptions to pharmacies for patients.

Wireless communication, also known as “over the air”, is the transfer of information or power between two or more points not connected by an electrical conductor.
Wireless devices are becoming more common among nursing students and nurses.
They can be used in the clinical setting and for theory and learning.
They provide faster and easier access to patient records, charting, and more.

A method of exchanging messages or mail between people using electronic devices.
Invented by Ritam Lunson.
First entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s, had taken the form now recognized as email.
Today’s email systems are based on a store and forward model.
Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages.

A bookmark is a Uniformed Resource Identifier (URI) that is stored for later retrieval in various storage formats.
All modern web browsers include bookmark features.
Called “Favorites” or “Internet Shortcuts” in Internet Explorer.
Are normally accessed to a menu in the user’s web browser and folders are commonly used for organization.

Like all long-distance communication technologies, two-way video communication can cut down the need to travel to bring people together.
The core technology used in the two-way video conferencing system is digital compression of audio and video streams in real time.

Zoom: Widely used, easy to use, suitable for personal and professional video calls.
Google Meet: Integrated with Google Workspace, simple and reliable for quick video meetings.
Microsoft Teams: Collaboration platform with strong video conferencing capabilities, especially useful for teams and businesses.
Skype: Well-established platform for video calls and messaging, offering features like screen sharing and background blurring.
Webex: A videoconferencing app that has been around since the 90s and was acquired by Cisco in 2007.
Jitsi: An open-source video conferencing platform that allows users to connect online for video conference meetings, webinars and live chat.

The technology that allows you to hold meetings with several correspondents who are located in different places while seeing and talking to them in real time.
It is different from simple video calling, which is normally one-to-one video communication.

A proprietary video telephony product developed by Apple.
Available on supported IOS mobile devices and Macintosh computers that run MAC OS and later versions.
Supports any IOS devices with a forward-facing camera and any Macintosh computer equipped with a stand camera.
First patient in Arkansas to Facetime during brain surgery.

The act of composing and sending electronic messages typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops and laptops, or other types of compatible computers.
Two types of Messaging:
- Short message service/SMS: alphanumeric text
- Multimedia messaging service/MMS: multimedia message using digital images, videos, sound content, ideograms, or emoji

An American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as tweets.
Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.

An American multinational technology company that specializes in internet-related services and products, including online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Considered one of the big four technology companies alongside Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.

An American social media and technology company based in Menlo Park, California.
Founded by Mark Zuckerberg along with fellow Harvard college students and roommates: Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, originally as thefacebook.com.
Today, Facebook is a popular global social networking website.
Facebook is also one of the big four technology companies.
Facebook is one of the most valuable companies.

An American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Facebook Inc.
Created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010 exclusively on IOS.