Nursing Informatics Theories

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Nursing Informatics Theories, Concepts and Models

Nursing informatics is an established and growing area of specialization in nursing. All nurses
employ information technologies in their place.
Informatics nurses are key persons in the design, development, Implementation, and evaluation,
of these technologies and in the development of the specialty’s body of knowledge.

Informatics and Healthcare Informatics


Informatics is a science that combines a domain science, computer science, information science,
and cognitive science
It is a multidisciplinary science drawing from varied theories and knowledge application

Healthcare informatics may defined as the integration of healthcare sciences, computer science,
information science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of health information.

Nursing Informatics
Nursing informatics is the use of information technologies in relation to any nursing functions and
actions of nurses(Hannah, 1985).
Nursing informatics is a combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science
designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge
to support the practice the nursing and the delivery of nursing care(Graves and Corcoran, 1989).

Nursing Informatics
The ANA (1994) defined nursing informatics as the specialty that integrates nursing science,
computer science, and information science in identifying, collecting, processing, and managing data
and information to support nursing practice, administration, education, research, and the expansion
of nursing knowledge.
Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information, and knowledge to support
patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings.

NURSING INFORMATICS MODELS


Health Informatics
Health informatics is a specialty that integrates medical science, computer science and information
system to manage and communicate data information, and knowledge in professional practice
Health Informatics Specialty

Information System in the


Healthcare Industry of the Philippines
Information System
It is the system of data records and activities that processes and translate data to
information in an automated process.
Health Informatics
It is related to the processing of data of patients’ records into information which are
supported by information systems

Information Systems
1. Decision support system for patient care
2. Patient data profiling
3. Knowledge discovery and management

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