Informatics Midterm Review Sheet (ASSURED A)
1. General principles of Nursing Informatics:
2. Knowledge
o Awareness and understanding of a set of information and
ways that information can be made useful to support
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Informatics Midterm Review Sheet (ASSURED A)
1. General principles of Nursing Informatics:
2. Knowledge
o Awareness and understanding of a set of information and
ways that information can be made useful to support a
specific task or arrive at a decision. This knowledge building is
an ongoing process engaged in while a person is conscious
and going about his or her normal daily activities.
3. Wisdom:
• Knowledge applied in a practical way or translated into
actions; the use of knowledge and experience to heighten
common sense and insight so as to exercise sound judgment
in practical matters. Sometimes thought of as the highest form
of common sense, resulting from accumulated knowledge or
erudition (deep, thorough learning) or enlightenment
(education that results in understanding and the
dissemination of knowledge). Wisdom is the ability to apply
valuable and viable knowledge, experience, understanding,
and insight while being prudent and sensible. It is focused on
our own minds; it is the synthesis of our experience, insight,
understanding, and knowledge. Wisdom is the appropriate
use of knowledge to solve human problems. It is knowing
when and how to apply knowledge.
4. Scientific Underpinning:
• The scientific underpinnings of practice provide the basis of
knowledge for advanced nursing practice. These scientific
underpinnings include sciences such as biology, physiology,
psychology, ethics, and nursing.
• Nursing science, information science, and computer science
5. The Foundation of Knowledge Model
• The Foundation of Knowledge model is also introduced as the
organizing conceptual framework of this text, and the model
is tied to nursing science and the practice of nursing
informatics.
6. Computer science:
o Branch of engineering (application of science) that studies
the theoretical foundations of information and computation
and their implementation and application in computer
systems. The study of storage/memory, conversion and
transformation, and transfer or transmission of information in
machines— that is, computers—through both algorithms and
practical implementation problems. Algorithms are detailed,
unambiguous action sequences in the design, efficiency, and
application of computer systems, whereas practical
implementation problems deal with the software and
hardware.
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7. Cognitive science:
o Interdisciplinary field that studies the mind, intelligence, and
behavior from an information processing perspective.
8. Information science
o Information science enables the processing of information.
This processing links people and technology. Humans are
organic ISs, constantly acquiring, processing, and generating
information or knowledge in their professional and personal
lives. This high degree of knowledge, in fact, characterizes
humans as extremely intelligent organic machines. The
premise of this text revolves around this concept, and the text
is organized on the basis of the Foundation of Knowledge
model: knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing,
knowledge generation, and knowledge dissemination.
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