NURSING INFORMATICS (REVIEW NOTES)

 Keyboard Printer are peripheral hardware devices in a computer system

 Because several disciplines support the foundation of informatics nursing, it is important for the
informatics nurse to understand that: informatics nursing uses the concepts, tools, and methods
of various disciplines to facilitate nursing process.

 Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements articulate the primary factors that guide
professional nursing judgment, regarding confidential patient information

 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/ Internet Protocol (IP) is the basic network protocol that
determines the rules used to create and route packets of data between computers is:

 Adherence to a standardized nursing language will lead to improved evaluation of nursing

outcomes.

 The informatics nurse violates a patient's legal right to privacy and confidentiality, by looking up
a colleague's diagnosis and laboratory results while he or she is hospitalized.

 The focus of data analysis is to transform data into a usable form.

 Project management software is a tool tracks resources, milestones, and time frames associated
with the implementation of a new clinical program?

 System design is a process produces a blueprint that details how hardware and software meet
the needs of the organization?

 As an ambulatory provider reviews the patient's chart, the provider reads lab data from an
external organization. This scenario exemplifies a health information exchange.

 Integrating clinical practice guidelines with an electronic health record facilitates quality
improvement measurement by comparing guideline parameters to clinical outcomes.

 Internet users had used the internet to get health-related information with the most frequent
topics reported are: Diseases, Treatments, Interventions

 In Health-related decision-making, Individuals should be able to comprehend medical terms and

integrate it to their values system to be able to decide
 Computer-based decision support system can function in disease management that can acquire
and transmit health information to both clinician and client.

 System unit is a box that contains the central electronic components of the computer is the

 The CPU comprises of Control unit, Memory and Arithmetic/Logic unit.

 Application and system are the two main types of software

 Supply chain management tracks inventory and information among business processes and
across companies

 Screen saver is an example of Utility software

 Decentralized database systems is NOT required of an Enterprise Resource Planning system.

What it needs are Modular design, Integrated functions, Internet-enabled.

 CPU and RAM are two things that make up the brains of a computer

 A compiler is a software which translates program into a specific series of machine code

 If you turn off the power to the computer, items stored on RAM will be lost.

 Intranet is an internal organizational Internet that is guarded against outside access by a firewall

 Cache memory is a temporary storage for instructions waiting to be processed

 Information technology is any computer-based tool that people use to work with information
and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization?

 The CPU is able to process data; RAM only holds it

 Software is the set of instructions that your computer needs to carry out a specific task?

 For a moment, imagine yourself visiting your local florist to order flowers for a party you were
preparing for. The florist, however, did not have the type of flower arrangement you hoped for
but the florist was able to immediately find, order and deliver this arrangement directly to your
home from their supplier. This kind of relationship represents an information partnership

 Hardware devices are components of a computer that are tangible

 An intermediate between computer hardware and software is called firmware

 Computer programs are known as software

 Local area network is a system called that links together mainframes, minicomputers, and
microcomputers that are in close proximity for the purpose of communication?
 Client/server network is a network that uses a server to meet the needs of the other computers
on the network.

 Intranet is an internal network designed to provide and disseminate information to internal staff
by using the look and feel of the World Wide Web

 Wide area network is a network that links computers located thousands of miles of apart

 Access rights network security feature prevents users on a network from using programs and
information that they do not need to access

 In 1964, Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a
graphical user interface (GUI). This marks the evolution of the computer from a specialized
machine for scientists and mathematicians to technology that is more accessible to the general
public.

 In 2016, the first reprogrammable quantum computer was created

 In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April Fool's Day and roll out
the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board, according to Stanford University.

 In 2009, Microsoft launches Windows 7, which offers the ability to pin applications to the
taskbar and advances in touch and handwriting recognition, among other features. In what year
did this event happen

 In 1954, the FORTRAN programming language, is developed by a team of programmers at IBM

led by John Backus, according to the University of Michigan. In what year did this event happen?

 In 2005, YouTube, a video sharing service, is founded. Google acquires Android, a Linux-based
mobile phone operating system. In what year did this event happen?

 In 1964, the original BASIC programming language was developed by John Kemeny, Mary Keller,
and Thomas Kurtz, and was introduced to the public in this year.

 In 1965, Simula is considered the first ever object-oriented programming language, developed
by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. In what year did this event happen?

 In motherboard, this hardware provides connectivity between the hardware components of a

computer, like the processor (CPU), memory (RAM), hard drive, and video card.

 CPU is the hardware is the electronic circuitry within a computer that executes instructions that
make up a computer program.

 Data and programs in ROM can only be read by the computer and cannot be erased or altered.

 RAM refers to working memory used for primary storage and can be accessed, used, changed,
and written on repeatedly.
 Input devices allow the computer to receive information from the outside world.

 Storage media include the main memory and external devices on which programs and data are
stored.

 The group of required and optional hardware items that are linked together to make up a
computer system is called configuration

 In 1950s, the use of computers in the health care industry also grew. During this time, there
were only a few experts who formed a cadre of pioneers that attempted to adapt computers to
health care and nursing.

 During the 1960s, the uses of computer technology in health care settings began to be
questioned. Questions such as “Why computers?” and “What should be computerized?” were
discussed.

 During the 1970s, giant steps were taken in both dimensions: nursing and computer technology.
Nurses recognized the computer’s potential for improving the documentation of nursing
practice, the quality of patient care, and the repetitive aspects of managing patient care.

 During the 1980s, the field of informatics emerged in the health care industry and nursing.
Nursing Informatics became an accepted specialty and many nursing experts entered the field.

 Nusing Research is the area of Nursing that provides the impetus to use the computer for
analyzing nursing data. Software programs are available for processing both quantitative and
qualitative research data.

 Informatics is the study of computational systems, especially those for data storage and
retrieval. It is also synonymous to computer science and computing as a profession in which the
central notion is transformation of information.

 Power Supply box, Video card and Graphics processor are among the hardware devices you
usually can find inside a CPU Casing

 Devices which are used to receive data from central processing unit are classified as output
devices