Nursing Informatics: I

Codd's rules of normalization breaks data down into a table in order to show the relationships between the various parts.

Data transformation is the process of changing information from a given source (such as a data entry terminal) into information that can be understood by a destination point (such as a large database).

Benchmarking is a self improvement tool for organizations. Benchmarking compares one organization to another to identify their comparative strengths and weaknesses and learn how to improve. Benchmarking is a way of finding and adopting best practices.

From data to information to knowledge to wisdom

Texts, audio, video, image

data are discrete entities that are described as objectively without interpretation

Information is data organized or structured to give it meaning.

Knowledge is information synthesized to identify or formalize relationships

Transformation

Turley model of nursing informatics proposes that the core components of informatics should be cognitive science, information science, and computer science.

Innovators - the first individuals to adopt an innovation - risk takers
Early adopters - fastest to adopt, have the highest degree of leadership
Early majority - adopt over a varying degree over time
Late majority - adopts after the average member - skeptics
Laggards - last to adopt - focused on traditions

Construction of evidence. Chronological sets of data elements are considered construction of information

Unfreeze. All work to understand the system "as is" and to move toward a system "to be," looking for efficiencies and chagne, fall into the unfreeze phase.