chaPter 20.. Practice Application (^_^)

Hi talking about the practice application  according to Graves and Corcora, nursing informatics is an evolving definition. Thus Nursing Informatics is a combination of nursing science, information science, and computer science to manage and process nursing data, information, and knowledge to support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care.” And there’s a good thing about this thing the American Nurses Association offered the newest definition of nursing informatics, for the ANA Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and a knowledge in nursing practice.

Now we talk about the domains yes there are 3 domains in here. The 3 learning domains of Informatics competencies,

·       Computer literacy skills,

·       Information literacy skills,

·       General informatics competencies.

The first one is the basic computer skills will have needed to use a word processor,

The second includes the ability to recognize the need for information and to use these information correctly,

And the last one are basic skills required for all nurses relevant to nursing informatics.

In this report it also talks about the different types of knowledge, and what are these different knowledge?  These are the;

·       uncertainty,

·       heuristics,

·       fuzzy logic,

·       expert systems,

·       decision support systems.

There are also two types of Artificial Intelligence, it includes expert system and machine learning.