NURSING INFORMATICS NOTES

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, processes, prevention of
illness and injury, the alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response,
and advocacy in the care of individual, families, communities, and populations.

NURSING PROCESS

1958, Ida Jean Orlando

A- Assessment

D- Diagnosis

P- Planning

I- Implementation

E- Evaluation

Nursing Informatics – is the use of nursing technologies

- Is a specialty that integrates nursing sciene, computer science, and information science to
manage and communication data, information and knowledge in nursing practice.
- Facilitates the integration of data, information, knowledge to support patients, nurses and other
providers in their decision

THEORIES IN NURSING INFORMATICS

1. Chaos Theory

It is the branch of mathematics that deals with complex systems whose behavior is highly sensitive to
slight changes in condition so that the small alterations precise to

- Butterfly effect

2. Lewis’ Change Theory

a. Unfreeze
b. Change
c. Refreeze

3. Roger’s Change Theory – describes how new ideas, behaviors

4. Lewin’s Change Theory
5. Roger’s Theory
6. Change