After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Define the terms data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
- Describe the role of the nurse as knowledge worker.
- Discuss the significance of good information and knowledge management for health care delivery, the health care disciplines, and health care consumers.
- Distinguish between medical informatics, nursing informatics, and consumer informatics.
- Differentiate between computer and information literacy.
- Discuss the TIGER Initiative and compare how informatics competencies differ for entry into practice, experienced nurses, and informatics nurses and nurse specialists.
- Discuss the relationship between major issues in health care and the deployment of information technology.
- Identify characteristics that define nursing informatics as a specialty area of practice.
- Differentiate between the Roles of the Informatics Nurse and Informatics Nurse Specialist.
- Provide specific examples of how nursing informatics impact the health care consumer as well as professional practice, administration, education, and research.
- Forecast the roles that nursing informatics and health information technology will play in the health care delivery system five years from now.
- Compare the types of educational opportunities available in nursing informatics.
