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03 Nursing Informatics in The Health Care Professions Hgfgfuy
03 Nursing Informatics in The Health Care Professions Hgfgfuy
Nursing Informatics
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The importance of information
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The importance of information
Patient or client
Information on the client is required for his/her
individual care.
The assessment process consists of gathering
information.
The use of technology can assist in collecting this
information.
Information on the client can be found in the patient
record, the patients history, lab results.
Information on the client changes and grows over
time.
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The importance of information
Provider
Information about the provider of care helps
determine the type of assessment and the focus
of care given.
The provider can be an individual professional
such as a nurse, a physician, a physiotherapist.
The provider can also be the facility in which
care is provided such as a public health unit, a
hospital.
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The importance of information
Outcomes
The outcome of treatment and care now requires
more attention than ever.
There is a growing interest in ensuring that care
results in quality outcomes in a cost-efficient
manner.
Outcomes can be difficult to measure.
Technology can assist in measuring because it
can enhance gathering, analysis and
dissemination of outcomes.
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The importance of information
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The importance of information
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What is information?
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The five rights of information
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What is healthcare informatics?
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What is healthcare informatics?
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Nursing Informatics
Integrates nursing science, computer science,
and information science to manage and
communicate data, information, and knowledge
in nursing practice.
Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of
data, information, and knowledge to support
clients, nurses, and other providers in their
decision-making in all roles and settings."
(Staggers & Bagley-Thompson, 2002).
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Why is it important?
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Why is it important?
Therefore, NI competencies need to include both
knowledge and skills required:
to use information and communication
technologies to enter, retrieve and manipulate
data.
to interpret and organize data into information to
affect nursing practice.
to combine information to contribute to
knowledge development in nursing.
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Using information
Evidence-based practice leads to:
Determining standards and guidelines
Guide for decision-making process
Determines best practice
Nursing informatics can enable dissemination of
new knowledge.
Practitioners update themselves of new developments
through journals, conferences, continuing education
sessions.
The information is varied and copious.
There is a need to find the relevant evidence in a timely
way.
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Literature databases
Provide access to relevant literature and are
an important research source.
Usually cover a specific list of periodicals or
other publications that give the database defined
boundaries.
Usually specific to one field such as healthcare,
social sciences, education.
The database may be limited to research articles
or may include newspaper clippings, magazine
articles.
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Literature databases
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Obstacles to using information
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References