Glossary Of Terms

Question 1

Cues

Answer 1

Are key generic examples of competent performance. They are Keith comprehensive nor exhaustive. It assist the assessor when using professional judgement in assessing nursing practice

Question 2

Competence

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Is the combination of knowledge, skills, attitude, values and abilities that underpin effective performance in a profession

Question 3

Competent

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Is demonstrating the ability to apply the standards at a level that is judged to be appropriate for the level of nurse or midwife being assessed

Question 4

Computer literacy

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Is the ability to transmit, investigate, share and create knowledge and critically reason with a computer

Question 5

Data analytics

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Is the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information

Question 6

Electronic health record

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Is computerised repository for a persons health information providing information to members of the health care team regarding a clinical encounter.

Question 7

Enrolled nurse

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Is a person who has completed the prescribed educational preparation, demonstrates competence for practise and is registered with the NMBA

Question 8

Ergonomics

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Is a scientific discipline devoted to the study of analysis of human work, as it is affected by individual anatomical, psychological and other human characteristics

Question 9

Informatics

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The discipline of science that investigates the structure and properties of scientific information

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Information literacy

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Are an understanding and set of abilities enabling individuals to recognise when information is needed and have the capacity to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information

Question 11

Information and Communication technologies

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Is the technologies and platforms used in the generation, storage, retrieval, access, manipulation and transmission of information in various scientific, socio-economic and political frameworks

Question 12

Information Management

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Is the way an organisation plans, identifies, create, recieves, collects, organises, governs, secures , uses, control, disseminate, exchanges, maintains, preserves and disposes of it’s information.

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Information technology

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Is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information

Question 14

Interoperability

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Describes the extent to which systems and devices can exchange data and interpret that shared data.

Question 15

Intranets

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Is the name given to a restricted access network that works like the web. Usually owned and managed by an organisation, the internet enables that organisation to share it’s resources internally without confidential information being made available to everyone with internet access

Question 16

Html

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Hypertext markup language, standard language used to create web pages

Question 17

Hypertext link

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An inserted link in a word or graphics that takes the user from one document to another document

Question 18

Midwife

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Is a person who has completed the prescribed educational preparation, demonstrated competency for practise and is registered with the NMBA as a midwife

Question 19

Registered nurse

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a person who has completed the prescribed educational preparation, demonstrated competency for practise and is registered with the NMBA as an rn

Question 20

URL address

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Uniform resource locator

Question 21

Interoperability

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Describes the extent to which systems and devices can exchange data and interpret that shared data

Question 22

Intranets

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Is the name given to a restricted-access network that works like the Web. Usually owned and managed by an organisation, it enables that organisation to share it’s resources internally without consideration information being made available to everyone with internet access