1. Information literacy: Defined as the ability to recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to find, evaluate and use needed information effectively
2. Information: Term used to describe data that has
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1. Information literacy: Defined as the ability to recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to find, evaluate and use needed information effectively
2. Information: Term used to describe data that has been interpreted
3. Information science: Focus on how to gather, process and transform informa- tion into knowledge. It also incorporates features from 5 other sciences
-communication science
-computer science
-social science
-library science
-cognitive science
4. Information systems: Using the EHR to document care of a patient with a fractured femur is an example of using the EHR in which way
5. Simulation Technology Improving patient outcomes.: Allowing them hands-on practice and immediate feedback of the skill being learned
6. Knowledge worker: Nurses in this type of role
-are continuous learners
-use technology to support and inform nursing practice
-generate knowledge as a product
7. Expert/Experienced Nurse: Expected to fully integrate informatics throughout the course of his/her practice, not just for basic data entry and retrieval. They also know how to pull trends out of data
8. Nursing informatics: Nursing informatics as a specialty does have its own National certification exam
The use of technology and information to help support all aspects of nursing practice
9. Clinical practice guidelines: Clinical practice guidelines can allow for the creation of nursing policies. True rooted in evidenced based research
10. Information technologies, not systems but functions within a system: - CPOE, bar code medication administration, and clinical decision support are all examples of what
11. Informatics
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