Part 3: IT in Nursing Flashcards
Are raw, uninterrupted facts without
meaning
Data
Is facts with meaning
Information
Is understanding the information
Knowledge
Is knowledge used to make
appropriate decisions and acting on those
decisions
Wisdom
The ___
moves from data to information to knowledge
to wisdom with constant interaction within and
across these concepts as well as the environment.
Nelson data to
wisdom continuum
\_\_\_\_and \_\_\_\_\_\_ allow the nurse to understand the meaning and importance of those data and to make decisions about nursing actions with regard to the information.
Context
Pattern knowledge
While data by themselves are meaningless,
_____and ___, by definition,
are meaningful.
information
knowledge
When the nurse uses knowledge to make
appropriate decisions and acts on those
decisions he or she exhibits ______.
wisdom
3 states of data
Data at rest
Data in use
Data in motion
What state?
-Data on a storage device
Data at rest
What state?
Data that a database
program is reading or writing
Data in use
What state?
Data moving between
applications, over the network, or over the
Internet
Data in motion
An organized collection of related data.
Database
Placing notes in folders and folders in file
cabinets is an example of creating a paper
____.
database
Basic ____can be aggregated and
summarized to produce new ____and
information that a different set of users may
use.
data
The possibility of finding databases depends on the four important factors: (1) The \_\_\_\_\_(indexing) and \_\_\_\_\_ schemes (2) The \_\_\_\_and \_\_\_\_\_of the database (3) The\_\_\_\_\_\_within the database (4) The database search \_\_\_\_\_
data naming …organizational
size …complexity
type of data
methodology
Types of data that Reflects how users
view the data. The source of the data may be
its basis.
Conceptual Data Types
Types of data that May include financial data,
patient data, or human resource data
Conceptual
data classifications
Types of data that that utilizes Alphanumeric
data which include letters and numbers in any combination;
Computer Based Data Types
Types of Computer Based Data: a. b. c. d.
Alphanumeric Data
Numeric Data
Date and Time
Logic Data
COMMON APPROACHES TO ORGANIZING DATA INCLUDE: a. b. c. d.
Sorting
Classifying
Summarizing
Calculating
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DBMS) are computer programs that are used to: 1. 2. 3. 4 5.
Input Store Modify Process Access Data
Before you can use a _____, you must first
create the structure for the database using
the data elements necessary to manage the
data specific to the project.
DBMS
The process of configuring the database soft
ware is called _____-
database system design