Nursing Informatics 101

Nursing Practice

Nursing Research

SCOPE

Nursing Education

Nursing Administra tion

Nursing Practice

Hospital

Expanded Role

CHN

Hospital An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured

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CHN a field of nursing that is a blend of primary health care and nursing practice with public health nursing

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Expanded Roles The functions of a nurse that are not specified in the traditional limits of nursing practice legislation. Common roles are primary nurse and nurse practitioner, necessitating legal coverage through the establishment of standardized procedures changes in nursing practice acts.
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Nursing Education

Health Teaching

Distance Learning

Curriculum

Health Teaching is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health.
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Curriculum is those subjects that are most useful for living in contemporary society.

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Learning Distance sometimes called e-learning, is a formalized teaching and learning system specifically designed to be carried out remotely by using electronic communication

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Nursing Research

Data Collection

Topic Identification

Data Analysis

Data Collection Various programs can be used to sort and actually collect data, including hospital information systems, database, word processing.

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Data Analysis Statistical and thematic software can greatly reduce the time and stress of processing both quantitative and qualitative data.

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Topic Identification Through online literature searches, email and discussion groups, and visiting websites.

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Nursing Administra tion

Objectives Result

Method

Objective As part of Phase I of a project to map the literature of nursing, sponsored by the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association, this study identifies the core literature cited in nursing administration and the indexing services that provide access to the core journals.
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Method Using the common methodology described in the overview article, five source journals for nursing administration were identified and selected for citation analysis over a three-year period, 1996 to 1998, to identify the most frequently cited .
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Results reveal that nursing administration literature relies most heavily on journal articles and on those titles identified as core nursing administrative titles

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