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communication software - ANS Technology programs used to transmit messages via e-mail,
telephonically, paging, broadcast (such as MP3), and Internet (such as instant messaging,
Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or listservs).
Communication Systems - ANS - collections of individual communications networks and
transmission systems
- ex in healthcare include: call light systems, wireless phones, pagers, e-mail, instant
messaging, and any other devices or networks that clinicians use to communicate with patients,
families, other professionals, and internal and external resources.
the thing that carries the message
communication systems targeting patients and their families - ANS - some patients are now able
to access their electronic chart from home via an internet connection.
- they can update their own medical record to inform their physicians of changes to their health
or personal practices that impact their physical condition.
- inpatients in hospitals may also receive individualized messages with scheduled tests,
procedures for the day and confirm menu choices for their meals.
- these systems may also communicate educational messages, such as smoking cessation
advice.
communication hub - ANS - a device that captures and assists in the transmission of info from
peripheral equipment.
- A processor organizes the data, appropriately encrypts the data to assure confidentiality, and
transmits the encrypted data to appropriate decision makers.
- data can be transmitted via traditional phone lines, through the internet or over wireless
networks.
- typically the hub will be a small box, to which peripheral equipment is connected.
Nursing Informatics (NI) - ANS - the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple
information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate
data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.
- A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science
knowledge work/workers - ANS - the process of collecting data, turning it into information and
creating knowledge and ultimately wisdom
- technology can aid by helping nurses to collect data, see trends, process info and create
knowledge that can be used to create wisdom.
Nursing Informatics Competencies - ANS - a set of essential skills related to informatics deemed
appropriate for various levels of nursing practice.
, - nursing is an information intensive profession
- Establish a nursing language, develop methods to build clinical information databases,
determine how nurses give patient care using data, info, and knowledge, develop and test
patient care decisions support systems, develop workstations that provide nurses with needed
info, develop appropriate methods to evaluate nursing info system
nursing practice science - ANS the steps of using information, applying knowledge to a problem
and acting with wisdom is the basis of this.
Two core roles in nursing informatics - ANS 1. The informatics nurse specialist
2. the clinician (nurse) who must use health information technology.
Nursing science - ANS one of the building blocks for nursing informatics.
- the ethical application of knowledge acquired through education, research, and practice to
provide services and interventions to patients so as to maintain, enhance, or restore health
- to advocate for health; and to acquire, process, generate, and disseminate nursing knowledge
to advance the nursing profession
computer science - ANS Studies the theory underpinning information and computation and their
implementation in computer systems; facets include hardware, software, and communications
as well as solutions to related problems (IT).
computer science - ANS a 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, transformation and transfer or transmission of
information in machines, that is, computers, through both algorithms and practical
implementation problems.
Algorithms - ANS detailed, unambiguous action sequences in the design, efficiency and
application of computer systems.
- differ from practical implementation problems which deal with the software and hardware.
Central Processing Unit (CPU) - ANS or microprocessors
- Sometimes conceptualized as the "brain" of the computer, the processor is the computer
component that actually executes, calculates, and processes the binary computer code (which
consists of various configurations of 0s and 1s), instigated by the operating system (OS) and
other applications on the computer.
operating system - ANS The most important software on any computer. It is the very first
program to load on computer start-up and is fundamental for the operation of all other software
as well as the computer's hardware.
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - ANS - three axioms for effectiveness: