Trace the evolution of nursing informatics from concept to specialty practice.
NURSING INFORMATICS and the Foundation of Knowledge
The Pedagogy Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Fourth Edition drives comprehension through a variety of strategies geared toward meeting the learning needs of students, while also generating enthusiasm about the topic. This interactive approach addresses diverse learning styles, making this the ideal text to ensure mastery of key concepts. The pedagogical aids that appear in most chapters include the following:
Key Terms » Accessibility » Cognitive activity » Data » Data gatherer » Enumerative
approach » Expert systems
» Industrial Age » Information » Information Age » Information user » International
Classification of Nursing Practice
» Knowledge » Knowledge
builder » Knowledge user » Knowledge worker » Ontological
approach
» Reusability » Standardized Nurs-
ing Terminology » Technologist » Terminology » Ubiquity » Wisdom
1. Trace the evolution of nursing informatics from concept to specialty practice.
2. Relate nursing informatics metastructures, con- cepts, and tools to the knowledge work of nursing.
3. Explore the quest for consistent terminology in nursing and describe terminology approaches that
accurately capture and codify the contributions of nursing to health care.
4. Explore the concept of nurses as knowledge workers.
5. Explore how nurses can create and derive clinical knowledge from information systems.
Objectives
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Introduction Those who followed the actual events of Apollo 13, or who were enter- tained by the movie (Howard, 1995), watched the astronauts strive against all odds to bring their crippled spaceship back to Earth. The speed of their travel was incomprehensible to most viewers, and the task of bringing the spaceship back to Earth seemed nearly impossible. They were experienc- ing a crisis never imagined by the experts at NASA, and they made up their survival plan moment by moment. What brought them back to Earth safely? Surely, credit must be given to the technology and the spaceship’s ability to withstand the trauma it experienced. Most amazing, however, were the traditional nontechnological tools, skills, and supplies that were used in new and different ways to stabilize the spacecraft’s environment and keep the astronauts safe while traveling toward their uncertain future.
This sense of constancy in the midst of change serves to stabilize experi- ence in many different life events and contributes to the survival of crisis and change. This rhythmic process is also vital to the healthcare system’s stability and survival in the presence of the rapidly changing events of the Knowledge Age. No one can dispute the fact that the Knowledge Age is changing health care in ways that will not be fully recognized and under- stood for years. The change is paradigmatic, and every expert who ad- dresses this change reminds healthcare professionals of the need to go with the fl ow of rapid change or be left behind.
As with any paradigm shift, a new way of viewing the world brings with it some of the enduring values of the previous worldview. As health care continues its journey into digital communications, telehealth, and wearable technologies, it brings some familiar tools and skills recognized in the form of values, such as privacy, confi dentiality, autonomy, and nonma- lefi cence. Although these basic values remain unchanged, the standards for living out these values will take on new meaning as health professionals confront new and different moral dilemmas brought on by the adoption