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NR 599 / NR599 Nursing Informatics for Advanced Practice Midterm Exam Review | New!!! Complete (Week 1- 4) | Chamberlain College WEEK ONE READING/KEY POINTS McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2018). Chapter 1 1. Nursing informatics: - specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, cognitive science, and information science 2. For information to be valuable & quality it must be: - Accessible & Utility: right user obtain right information at the right time in the right format - Accurate: - Timely: available when needed for the right purpose at the right time - Complete: contains all necessary essential data - Cost-effective - Flexible: information may be used for a variety or purposes - Reliable: authoritative or credible source - Relevant: subjective descriptor that has relevant information that is useful - Simple - Verifiable - Transparency: allows user to apply their intellect to accomplish tasks while tools housing the information disappears into the background - Secure - Reproducibility: ability to produce the same information again Chapter 2 3. Data: - raw facts 4. Information: - processed data that has meaning 5. Data integrity: - whole, complete, correct, and consistent data 6. Dirty data: - database that contains errors such as duplicate, incomplete, or outdated records 7. Information science: - study of information science-- concerned with input, processing, output, and feedback of data and information through technology integration with a focus on comprehending the perspective of the stakeholders involved and then applying IT as needed. - Systemically based-- deals with big picture, opposed to individual pieces of technology - Integrates communication science, computer science, cognitive science, library science, and social science - Links people and technology - Machines (inorganic ISs) Humans (organic ISs) - Focuses on why and how technology can be put to best use to serve the information flow within an organization 8. Information systems: - handle the needs of the entire organization (communication, tracking, and research) 9. Input: - collecting and acquiring raw data o Keyboards, touch screen, mice, light pens, automatic scanners 10. Processing: - retrieval, analysis, synthesis of data-- transforms data into useful information and outputs o Storing for future use, making calculations, comparing data 11. Output: - dissemination-- produces helpful information o Reports, documents, summaries, alerts, outcomes Chapter 3 12. Motherboard: - central nervous system of the computer-- facilitates communication among all components of the computer 13. Hard disk: - permanent data storage area that holds gigabytes of data, information, documents even when the computer is turned off. - Backing up important files is important because disk drives are not infallible 14. Random-access memory:

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