Information 

Data that are interpreted, organized, or structured. Data that is processed using knowledge or data made functional through the application of knowledge. 

Clinical Practice Guidelines 

Informal or formal rules or guiding principles that a healthcare provider uses when determining diagnostic tests and treatment strategies for individual patients. In the electronic health record they are included in a variety of ways such as prompts, pop-ups, and text messages. 

Knowledge Dissemination 

Distribution and sharing of knowledge. 

Nursing Informatics 

A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.

Knowledge Worker

Those who work with information and generate information and knowledge as a product. 

Foundation of Knowledge Model

Model that proposes that humans are organic information systems constantly acquiring, processing, and generating information or knowledge in both their professional and personal lives. The organizing framework of this text. 

Data 

Raw fact that lacks meaning. 

Knowledge Processing

The activity or process of gathering or collecting, perceiving, analyzing, synthesizing, saving or storing, manipulating, conveying, and transmitting knowledge. 

Evidence 

Artifacts, productions, attestations, or other examples that demonstrate what an individual's knowledge, skills, or valued attributes are. 

Borrowed Theory 

Theories borrowed or made use of from other disciplines; as nursing began to evolve, theories form other disciplines such as psychology, sociology, etc., were adopted to try to empirically describe, explain, or predict nursing phenomenona. As nursing theories continue to be developed, nurses are now questioning whether or not these borrowed theories were sufficient or satisfactory in their relation to the nursing phenomena they were used to describe, explain, or predict. 

Clinical Databases 

A collection of related patient records stored in a computer system using software that permits a person or program to query the data in order to extract needed patient information. 

Knowledge Generation 

Creating new knowledge by changing and evolving knowledge based on one's experience, education, and input from others. 

Building Blocks 

Basic element or part of nursing informatics such as information science, computer science, cognitive science, and nursing science. 

Knowledge Acquisition

The act of acquiring or getting knowledge. 

Relational Database

A database that can store and retrieve data very rapidly. Relational refers to how the data is stored in the database and how it is organized. 

Data Mining

A process of utilizing software to sort through data in order to discover patterns and ascertain or establish relationships. This process may help to discover or uncover previously unidentified relationships among the data in the database. 

Feedback 

Input in the form of opinions about or reactions to something such as shared knowledge. In an information system, feedback refers to infofrmation from the system that is used to make modifications in the input, processing actions, or outputs. 

Nursing Theory

Concepts, propositions, and definitions that represent a methodical viewpoint and provide a framework for organizing and standardizing nursing actions.

Nursing Science

Ethical appreciation of knowledge acquired through education, research, and practice is identified as...

Evolving

As nurse scientists, knowledge is...

Feedback

Based on the foundation of knowledge model, nurses look for ______ to transform the information into knowledge.

All of the above 

(Nursing science, Information science, Information technology)

Nursing informatics is defined as...

Processing

The alteration or transformation of data into useful information is known as...

Input

Collecting or acquiring raw data is also known as...

Have integrity and quality

To be able to process data into information it is important to...

Processed data that has meaning 

Information can be defined as...

Quality of information 

Secure, timely, relevant, and objective are some characteristics that define...

Knowledge 

The awareness and understanding of a net of information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or to arrive at a decision is called...

Information Science

Integration of Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Library Science, and Social Science are features of which area? 

Effectivey linking people, info, and technology

Information Science focuses on...

Glitches and loss of information 

Risks of information science technologies include...

Alerts/outcomes

Output information can be seen in the form of...

Designing a paper based system for information back up and storage

Which of the following is not likely to be part of the job responsibilities of Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Technology Officers (CTO)? 

Hardware, software, and telecommunications tools 

The main components of a computer based information system are...

Feedback 

Information from the system that is used to make modifications in the input, processing actions or outputs is referred to as: 

Knowledge and wisdom

As a nurse, which best describes what is needed in the decision making process...

A period of time when data, information are accessible by more people than ever

Which of the following definitions describe the information age...

BIOS input/output (I/) System 

A type of ROM used by the computer when it's turned on...

Random Access Memory (RAM) 

The type of memory that is lost once the system is shut off...

All of the above 

(Nursing related blogs and forums, CDs and DVDs, and Research and learning networks) 

A nurse can increase their clinical knowledge by learning which component of Computer Science...

Power and influence 

The computer literature nurse with the use of nursing informatics will have the knowledge and as a result will have the _______ and _______ in nursing. 

Computers and related technologies

To determine how computer systems will work best in patient care areas, staff nurses need to be knowledgeable about...

Flash drive

A type of memory that acts as a replacement for the hard drive.

Human technology interface

Using a computer system, a user must be comfortable in utilizing input and output devices. This definition identifies which concept...

To study the connection between the brains and minds way of collecting and processing info

Cognitive informatics can be defined as...

Connectionism

Which one of the following is the component of cognitive science that uses computer modeling through artificial neural networks to try to explain human intellectual abilities?  

Wisdom 

Which one of the following is knowledge applied in a practical way, translated into actions, or to use knowledge and experience to heighten common sense and insight to exercise sound judgment in practical matters? 

TRUE

(T/F) Wang (2003) described cognitive informatics (CI) as an emerging transdisciplinary field of study that attempts to bridge the gap of understanding how information is processed in the mind and in the computer. 

Ethics 

A process of various ways of understanding and examine the moral life is called...

Use of stem cell technology in research 

Which situation below depicts a bio-ethics situation...

Morals

A social convention about right and wrong human conduct that are so widely shared that they form a stable general agreement 

Nonmaleficence

Asserts an obligation not to inflict harm intentionally and forms a framework for the standard of care is called...

Principalism

Which theoretical framework emerged as a foundation for ethical decision making...

Concepts of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom

Nursing informatics focuses on...

Management

Nursing informatics is an area of study who affects all of the following except...

Nursing informatics

To improve the health of communities, families, and individuals by optimizing management and communication is a goal of...

Data is objective while information is subjective

Which definition differentiates data from information? 

All of the above 
(Decision making purposes, Case studies, and Systematic studies)  

Data can be used for...

An integration of nursing science, computer science, and information science.

The best definition of nursing informatics is...

Wisdom

The use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems is the definition of...

Nursing informatics

The unique combination of sciences creates a blend that is greater than the sum of its parts this definition can describe a unique component of...

Information management 

Is an elemental process within informatics where one can file, store, and manipulate data

Downloading music on a MP3 player

Choose the best example that would describe the concept of usability...

All of the above

(Efficiency, Mobility, and Size of lettering) 

Which concept is an important consideration the Informatics Nurse Specialist must consider regarding the safety of the user. When developing information structures and solutions...

To improve health by optimizing information management and communication 

The goal of nursing informatics is...

Wisdom is knowledge that is applied in an appropriate manner. 

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is that...

Usability

The ease of learning a computer application, and other issues of human performance is known as...

The metaparadigm

The key concepts of nurse, person, health, and environment are known as...

A rule based system that uses a knowledge base and a set of rules to make action recommendations

A decision support system is..

All of the above 

(Data, Information, and Knowledge) 

A nurse researcher is examining whether trauma patients are stabilized more rapidly using bolus or continuous infusion of diuretics. Her examination involves assessing values in the electronic health record, monitoring vital signs, and treating the patient. This kind of work is best characterized by which concept level in nursing informatics? 

NANDIC

Structured languages, also called taxonomies, are critical tools for nursing. Which of these is NOT an example of a current taxonomy? 

TRUE

(T/F) In addition to supporting direct provision of care, nursing informatics also supports nursing administration, nursing education and nursing research. 

FALSE 

(T/F) The terms nursing informatics and healthcare informatics are interchangeable. 

TRUE 

(T/F) Data that are interpreted, organized, and structured are referred to as information. 

TRUE

(T/F) Wisdom is the appropriate application of knowledge to a specific situation.