The specialty of the nursing informatics is that it adds the nursing science with various analytical sciences to define, identify, communicate, and manage information, knowledge, and data in nursing practice. Nursing informatics supports nurses, patients, inter-professional healthcare team, consumers, and stakeholders in making their decisions in every settings and roles to accomplish the required results. Information structures, information technology, and information processes are used to achieve this support.
Health information available on the internet has equalized the opportunities for knowledge among the health care providers and patients and created a phenomenon known as e-patient. In this phenomenon, the e-patients actively participate in the health care by using the technology. They have a high level of the responsibility of their wellness and health. The implications NI research in the e-patient phenomenon has an impact which relates to the possible collaboration with the practitioners to develop the collecting wisdom and the collective wisdom. A framework of Information, wisdom, knowledge, and data are used by the nursing informatics to understand the collective wisdom achieve by the clinicians and e-patients. Examination of the e-patient phenomenon is helpful in calculating, developing, designing and evaluating the efficiency of the information system in nursing informatics used by the e-patients. The internet facilitates the Partnership between the clinician and patient and a collective wisdom is cultivated which is improved by the collaboration of the e-patients and nurse informatics.
An important area of nursing practice and inquiry is informatics. Some scholars have spoken about philosophical foundations of this area and how they are interpreting into the practice including DIKW (data, information, knowledge, and wisdom) framework. This framework is approached through the post-positivism and is displayed in the computer systems. Wisdom aligns with the perspective of constructivist epistemological like Gadamerian hermeneutics. Wisdom development is supported by the computer systems. A significant element of DIKW framework is the knowledge which increases the role of nursing science and nursing informatics.
Clients record in nursing documentation is automatized which is a formidable challenge today in the healthcare settings. From the view of some stakeholders, a primary component of the automated record is the standardized language in nursing which generates reliable and valid data on client outcomes and nursing services. However, in literature, some successful applications of the standardized nursing language also exist for data generation and practice standards.
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