NURSING

INFORMATICS
Rosechelle S. Elarco,RMT,RN,MAN

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OBJECTIVES

• At the end of this lecture the students will be able to:

Define Nursing Informatics?
Identify Nursing Informatics Models
Differentiate between General Models and Specific
Models of Nursing Informatics
Identify Nursing Informatics theories
Describe three theories on which informatics relies
Identify the contribution of theories to informatics
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 NURSING INFORMATICS
To promote the health of
people, families and
communities worldwide

To manage and
Established and growing Communicate
area of specialization data

Empowering all healthcare

practitioners in achieving
PATIENT CENTERED CARE

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American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA),
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• “Nursing Informatics science and practice integrates nursing, its
information and knowledge and their management, with information
and communication technologies to promote the health of people,
families and communities worldwide”

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA),

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NURSING INFORMATICS

Use of computer technology to support nursing,

including clinical practice, administration,
education, and research. (Hebda, 1998)

It promotes the generation, management and

processing of relevant data in order to use
information and develop knowledge that supports
nursing in all practice domains
(Hebert, 2000)

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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)

Nursing, information, and computer sciences for

managing and processing data into knowledge for use in
nursing practice
(Murphy, 2010).

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Nursing Informatics:

It supports consumers, patients, nurses, and

other providers in their decision- making in all
roles and settings.
 This support is accomplished through the use of
information structures, information processes,
and information technology.

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Goals of NI:
Improve patient care

Solve problems in the nursing workplace

Produce globally-competitive nurses

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NURSE INFORMATICS
• Career focuses on how to boost the management of
information and communication in the field of nursing

• Specialists facilitate data integration, information and

knowledge so that they provide better support to
patients, nurses and other health care providers

American Nursing Informatics Association, 2019

 Healthcare Informatics
• Computer science: development, configuration, architecture
of computer hardware and software.

• Healthcare science: body of knowledge on which healthcare

profession bases their practice. The sciences of anatomy,
physiology and knowledge specific to each profession.

• Information science: also includes information technology

which involves the process of sending and receiving
information.

• Cognitive science: the process of human thinking,

understanding and remembering.
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