Transcription of What is Nursing Informatics and Why is it so Important?
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What is Nursing Informatics and Why is it so Important?
50 DRIVEWAY, OTTAWA ON K2P 1E2 TEL: (613) 237-2133 1-800-361-8404 FAX: (613) 237-3520 WEB SITE: E-MAIL: to as Nursing , however, there is a need forall nurses to integrate Nursing informat-ics competencies into their practices. While there is no standard definition forthe concept of Nursing Informatics , thefollowing definition was proposed in the1999 National Nursing InformaticsProject (NNIP) discussion paper:1 Nursing Informatics (NI) is the application ofcomputer science and information science tonursing. NI promotes the generation, manage-ment and processing of relevant data in orderto use information and develop knowledge thatsupports Nursing in all practice of Nursing Informatics areillustrated in figure blocks of nursingcommunicationsThe foundation of Nursing Informatics isbased on the concepts of data, informa-tion andknowledge. Because informationand knowledge are essential for nurseswhen interpreting data and makingdecisions, it is important to know thedifference between these is key to effective decision-making and integral to quality Nursing practice.
Classification for Nursing Practice(ICNP®). The purpose of ICNP® is to provide a tool for describing and documenting key elements that represent clinical nursing practice. ICNP® provides nurs-ing with a common framework that facilitates cross-mapping of existing nursing vocabularies and classifica-tions to enable comparison of nursing
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