NURS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Relate, Urinary Catheterization, Sexually Transmitted Infection
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Learning outcomes: define and describe the concept of informatics, recognize the categories of informatics, identify ways that informatics impacts health care, locate, evaluate and effectively use information. Information technology: health informatics, nursing informatics, clinical decision support systems, electronic health record (ehr, electronic medical record (emr, nursing clinical information system, clinical information systems, health information technology for economic and clinical health act (hitech) "use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making" (qsen, 2012) Interrelated concepts: critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgement, leadership, communication, collaboration. Information literacy is a set of abilities allowing individuals to recognize when information is needed and how to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (american. Nursing informatics: specialty, supports nursing, stakeholders, health care team. Confidentiality: ethical and legal obligation to maintain patient privacy and confidentiality, failure to do so can result in, reprimand, sanction, fine, loss of licensure by the government or state board of nursing, loss of employment.
