REXIEL JOY H.

DEYPALUBOS BSN 2-2 MAY 6, 2010

Nursing informatics is an established and growing area of specialization in nursing. All nurses employ information technologies in their practice. Informatics nurses are key to design, development, implementation, and evaluation of these technologies and in the development of the specialtys body of knowledge.

Theories, models, frameworks, clearly stated definitions, and foundational documents can guide the nursing informatics learning activities for both students and faculty.

In 2001, the American Nurses Association (ANA) published the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statement, a complete revision of previous ethics provision and interpretive statements that guide all nurses in practice, be it in the domain of direct patient care, education, administration, or research. Nurses working in the informatics specialty are professionally bound to follow these provisions. Terms such as decision-making, comprehension, information, knowledge, shared goal, disclosure, outcomes, privacy, confidentiality, policies, protocols, evaluation, judgment, standards and factual documentation. Nursings Social Policy Statement, Second Edition Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

Informatics and Healthcare Informatics

Informatics is a science that combines a domain science, computer science, information science, and cognitive science. Healthcare informatics may be defined as the integration of healthcare sciences, computer sciences, information science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of healthcare information.

In early 1992, the ANA established nursing informatics as a distinct specialty in nursing with a distinct body of knowledge.

Models are representation of some aspect of the real world. Models show particular perspectives of a selected aspect and may illustrate relationships. Graves and Corcorans seminal work In 1986, Patricia Schwirian proposed a model of nursing informatics intended to simulate and guide systematic research in this discipline. Turley, 1996, proposed another model in which the core components of informatics.

Data, information, and knowledge are identified as current metastructures or overarching concepts for nursing informatics with specific definitions in the Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice. Data are discrete entities that are described objectively without interpretation. Information reflects interpretation, organization, or structuring of data. Knowledge emerges from the transformation of information. Knowledge is information that is synthesized so that relationships are identified and formalized.

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nurses are consummate twenty- first century knowledge workers. Their skills in assessment, planning, critical thinking and evaluation are transferable to many different settings but are most exquisitely employed in nursing practice. Knowledge work, of course

Data and information about professional nursing practice

and clinical knowledge

Determines and impacts data and Information derived from the system System utilization

Informs

Technology adoption
Influences degree of Adoption and use Human factors Provides means for/enables functional requirements

Information system Defines/enables definition of functional requirements Professional nursing Practice process understanding

Populates

Clinical knowledge

Technology

Influences all concepts

Influences scope and depth

Policy/regulation/standards

Terminology NANDA-1: Nursing Intervention classification(NIC) Clinical Care Classification(CCC) [ Previously known as Home Health Care Classification(HHCC)] Omaha System Nursing Outcomes Classification(NOC) Nursing Management Minimum Data Set(NMMDS) Patient Care Data Set(PCDS) Perioperative Nursing Data Set(PNDS) SNOMED CT Nursing Minimum Data Set(NMDS) International Classification for Nursing Practice(NCNP) ABC Codes

ANA Recognition 1992 1992 1992

1992 1997 1998 1998 1999 1999,2003 1999 2000 2000

Logical Observation Identifiers Name and 2002 Codes(LOINC)