NAME: LAARNI S.

MANGAHAS

COURSE/YEAR LEVEL AND BLOCK: BSN III-A

ACTIVITY

UNIT 1

a) Visit our NEUST Learning Management System and review the following:

1. NEUST’s VMGO

2. College of Nursing’s VMGO

ANALYSIS

a) As a sophomore nursing student how will you contribute in the society through
utilization of the Vision, Mission, Core Values and Tagline of the NEUST.

The vision of university provides a focal point that helps to align us and ensuring everyone
working towards a greater purpose. As a sophomore nursing student I think I can contribute to
the society by simply having a positive attitude towards my study and a passion to my chosen
course. Students like me must show their passion, be fruitful and have a creative learning. We
students must apply the university’s vision, mission, and the university core values.

NEUST stands for Nationality, Excellence, Unity, Science and Technology. These are the
qualities that we must have in order to utilize it. Ultimately, passion and perseverance are the
qualities that we need. That’s why I am trying my best to be more competitive nursing students,
by simply doing my homework, avoiding procrastination, and being more dedicated individual
and upholding the principles of love and commitment. Lastly I am expanding my knowledge and
my skills that I can use to my future profession, so that someday I can be able to give the best
quality of care that society needs.

UNIT 2

1. The Nursing Informatics: The historical perspective of nursing informatics. Learning

Objectives:

a. Define Nursing Informatics

Nursing Informatics (NI) is a title that evolved from the French word
“informatics” which referred to the field of applied computer science concerned with the
processing of information such as nursing information (Nelson, 2013).
b. Describe the Key Terms in Nursing Informatics
Here are some of the key terms of Nursing Informatics

Information technology- Is a subject that focuses on managing and processing

information, usually within an agency. The department charged with this responsibility
may be called the information technology (IT) department, the IS (Information Services)
or MIS (Management of Information Services).

Informatics- the science of the management of information, generally interpreted to

mean using computers to manage information

Health Information Technology (HIT) is a technology applied in healthcare, generally

meant to refer to electronic record, sometimes the name of the department that has the
responsibility for the electronic records.
 Data- is a discrete piece of objective "information." Theoretically it is the plural of
datum, but in common usage data is used to designate both singular and plural forms of
the word.

Electronic Health Record The complete record of an individual's healthcare from many
sources that is created and gathered cumulatively from more than one healthcare agency.
What information in it is accessible and to whom is determined by the individual whose
health it records. This term is often erroneously used to mean an electronic medical
record.

c). Discuss the historical perspective of nursing informatics.

Historical perspective of Nursing Informatics showed how science has bestowed health
care delivery system with excellent technological innovations such as computerization of the
entire health care delivery system and ho computerization has contributed enormously towards
the reduction of medical errors or problems.

d) List and discuss Lessons learned from the pioneers in nursing informatics.

By the mid-1960s, clinical practice presented nurses with new opportunities for computer
use. Increasingly complex patient care requirements and the proliferation of intensive care units
required that nurses become super users of computer technology as nurses monitored patients’
status via cardiac monitors and instituted treatment regimens through ventilators and other
computerized devices. A significant increase in time spent by nurses documenting patient care,
in some cases estimated at 40% (Sherman, 1965; Wolkodoff, 1963). During the late 1960s
through the 1970s, hospitals began developing computer-based information systems which
initially focused on physician order entry and results reporting, pharmacy, laboratory, and
radiology reports, information for financial and managerial purposes, and physiologic monitoring
systems in the intensive care units, and a few systems started to include care planning, decision
support, and interdisciplinary problem lists. While the content contained in early hospital
information systems frequently was not specific to nursing practice, a few systems did provide a
few pioneer nurses with a foundation on which to base future nursing information systems
(Blackmon et al., 1982; Collen, 1995; Ozbolt & Bakken, 2003; Romano, McCormick, &
McNeely, 1982; Van Bemmel & Munsen, 1997). By the 1990s, large integrated healthcare
delivery systems evolved, further creating the need for information across healthcare facilities
within these large systems to standardize processes, control costs, and assure quality of care
(Shortliffe, Perreault, Wiederhold, & Pagan, 2003)

- The pioneers of Nursing Informatics show how technology evolved. At the beginning of this
unit it was discussed that for decades, primary communication among team members has been
accomplished through notes written in the patient chart. Now because of technology, all medical
professional has the access to the most accurate and complete information, and as we move from
paper charts to mobile devices, nursing informatics is the center of much of the work is being
done, and all works was improved, works became more easy and accurate for the utility of
patient information.

e) Identify different types of nursing standards initiatives.

 Nursing Practice Standards Nursing Practice Standards have been developed and
recommended by the ANA, the official professional nursing organization. The ANA
published Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (ANA, 2008) that focused not only
on the organizing principles of clinical nursing practice but also on the standards of
professional performance. The six standards/phases of the nursing process serve as the
conceptual framework for the documentation of nursing practice. The updated Nursing
Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice (ANA, 2010) builds on clinical practice
standards, outlining further the importance of implementing standardized content to
support nursing practice by specialists in NI.
 Nursing Education Standards The NLN has been the primary professional organization
that accredits undergraduate nursing programs. Since the NLN’s Nursing Forum on
Computers in Healthcare and Nursing (NFCHN) was formed in 1985, it has supported the
integration of computer technology in the nursing curriculum. The American Association
of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), which also accredits nursing education programs,
revised The Essentials for Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (AACN,
2006) and The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice
(AACN, 2011) to require the use of computers and informatics for both baccalaureate and
graduate education. These new requirements for informatics competencies prepare nurses
to use HITs successfully and to contribute to the ongoing design of technologies that
support the cognitive work of nurses (AACN, 2011).
 Nursing Content Standards The nursing process data elements in EHRs are essential
for the exchange of nursing information across information systems and settings. The
original data elements and the historic details of nursing data standards are described in
Chapter 7 of this book. Standardization of healthcare data began in 1893 with the List of
International Causes of Death (World Health Organization, 1992) for the reporting of
morbidity cases worldwide, whereas the standardization of nursing began with Florence
Nightingale’s six Cannons in her “Notes on Nursing” (1959). However, it was not until
1955 that Virginia Henderson published her 14 Daily Patterns of Living as the list of
activities and conditions that became the beginning of nursing practice standards in this
country. But it was not until 1970 when the American Nurses Association (ANA)
accepted the Nursing Process as the professional standards for nursing practice, which
was followed by the standardization of nursing content— data elements—in 1973
(Westra et al., 2008).
f) Understand the major landmark events and milestones of nursing informatics.

Computers were introduced into the nursing profession over 35 years ago. Major
milestones of nursing are interwoven with the advancement of computer and information
technologies, the increased need for nursing data, development of nursing applications, and
changes making the nursing profession an autonomous discipline. The major developments in
the use of information technologies and nursing, and in the introduction of NI, were
chronologically described by program effort, or by organizational initiative. The landmark events
were described by the following categories: (a) early conferences, meetings, (b) early academic
initiatives, (c) initial ANA initiatives, (d) initial National League for Nursing (NLN) initiatives,
(e) early international initiatives, (f) initial educational resources, and (g) significant
collaborative events.

ACTIVITY 1

List several examples of how Nursing Informatics affects clinical practice, administration,
education, and research.

a) What do you think is the reasons of having Nursing Informatics as you view the
historical perspectives?

Nursing informatics is important because it gives benefit to all health workers and because of
it nurses are becoming computer literate. Thus they are able to implement practice standards for
clinical care. Nursing Informatics has also impact to the nursing education because it increase
cognitive skills and promotes evidence-based nursing. Lastly, through NI nursing research
provides the impetus to use the computer for analyzing nursing data, it processing both
quantitative and qualitative research data. With the advancement of computer technology
databases supporting nursing research, principally for online searching and retrieving
information from the electronic bibliographic literature systems or other databases that contain
relevant health care content, such as drug data and provides online access to the millions of Web
resources around the world which have increased the capabilities and expanded the field of
nursing research.