WGU C468 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
AND THE APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY
The ability to recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to find, evaluate and use
needed information effectively. – ✔✔Information Literacy
How does info literacy support EBP in nursing? – ✔✔Nurse can use research and apply/consult
resources/peers/internet
An integration of nursing science, computer science, and information science. The unique
combination of sciences creates a blend that is greater than the sum of its parts. – ✔✔Nursing
informatics
Data that has been interpreted – ✔✔Information
How is info related to data? – ✔✔Information is data interpret
This is the focus on how to gather, process and transform information into knowledge. It also
incorporates features from these 5 other sciences: communication science, computer science,
social science, library science and cognitive science. – ✔✔Information Science
Using the EHR to document care of a patient with a femur fracture is an example of using the
EHR in which way – ✔✔Information System
An elemental process within informatics where one can file, store, and manipulate data. –
✔✔Information Management
Knowledge vs wisdom– – ✔✔wisdom is knowledge that is applied in an appropriate manner
Common features of Health Info Systems: – ✔✔Comprehensive medical hx, unique way they
function and provide info clinicians, collects/processes/distributes data to manage and provide
care
ROM used by computer when it’s turned on– – ✔✔BIOS input/output (I/) system
The study of the connection between the brains and minds way of collecting and processing info.
- ✔✔Cognitive informatics
The component of cognitive science that uses computer modeling through artificial neural
networks to try to explain human intellectual abilities. – ✔✔Connectionism
A process of various ways of understanding and examining the moral life. – ✔✔Ethics
A social convention about right and wrong human conduct that are so widely shared that they
form a stable general agreement – ✔✔Morals
A theoretical framework that emerged as a foundation for ethical decision making –
✔✔Principlism
The ease of learning a computer application, and other issues of human performance. –
✔✔Usability
The key concepts of nurse, person, health and environment. – ✔✔The Metaparadigm
A rule based system that uses a knowledge base and a set of rules to make action
recommendations – ✔✔Decision Support System
How can using simulation technology with your patients improve overall outcomes— – ✔✔By
allowing them hands on practice and immediate feedback of the skill being learned
Nurses in this type of role are continuous learners, use technology to support and inform nursing
practice, and generate knowledge as a product. Information is a nurse’s primary resource –
✔✔Knowledge Workers
T or F beginner nurses are expected to fully integrate informatics, not just the basics, and pull
trends – ✔✔False, experienced nurses