UNIT 1- INTRODUCTION Flashcards
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is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice
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NURSING INFORMATICS provided by ANA recommended by HIMSS
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what are the three primary goals of NI
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- Improved Processes and Workflows
- Streamlined Documentation and Communication
- Lowered Healthcare Costs
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two main roles of the nurse (in NI)
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- Ensuring quality data
- “…the driving force behind the development, implementation, and optimization of electronic medical and health records, nursing clinical documentation, point-of-care clinical decision support, and computerized practitioner order entry”. (HIMSS)
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Impacts of Informatics on Health Care
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- Patient care has become much more manageable for health care professionals.
- Demand of for nurses with relevant digital skills increased alongside the rise of health informatics.
- Coordination of information improved patient satisfaction.
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B. ISSUES CONCERNING NURSING INFORMATICS
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a. Integration, Education, and Translation
b. Clinical Seasoning and Education
c. Averting Destruction and Fragmentation
d. Barriers to Success
e. Legal Issues
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- a law that seeks to protect all forms of information, be it private, personal, or sensitive
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- R.A. No. 10173/Data Privacy Act
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- “The privacy of communication and correspondence shall be inviolable except upon lawful order of the court, or when public safety or order requires otherwise, as prescribed by law.”
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- Art. III Bill of Rights
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- It shall be unlawful for any person, not being authorized by all the parties to any private communication or spoken word, to tap any wire or cable, or by using any other device or arrangement, to secretly overhear, intercept, or record such communication or spoken word by using a device commonly known as a dictaphone or dictagraph or detectaphone or walkie-talkie or tape recorder, or however otherwise described
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- R.A. 4200, (The Anti-Wiretapping Law)
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- “provides that any person with access to electronic data messages or documents has the obligation of confidentiality or the duty not to convey the information to, or share it with, any other person. Under this law, unauthorized access to computer systems is punishable by law.”
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- R.A. 8792 (Electronic Commerce Act of 2000)
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RA 386 IS ALSO KNOWN AS
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THE CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
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RA 4200 ALSO KNOWN AS
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THE ANTI-WIRETAPPING LAW
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GIVE A FEW EXAMPLES OF VIOLATIONS OF PRIVACY LAWS AND REGULATIONS
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- Failing to log off a computer when not in use.
- Illegally accessing patient files.
- Lending passwords or access codes.
- Losing electronic devices.
- Not shredding printouts with private info.
- Texting patient information.
