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• Attachment is a strong reciprocal emotional bond between an infant and a primary caregiver

  
• Schaffer and Emerson's 1964 study on attachment:

  • Aim: identify stages of attachment / find a pattern in the development of an attachment between infants and parents
  • Participants: 60 babies from Glasgow
  • Procedure: analysed interactions between infants and carers
  • Findings: babies of parents/carers with 'sensitive responsiveness' were more likely to have formed an attachment
• Freud's superego is the moral component of the psyche, representing internalized societal values and standards
• Nursing Informatics involves the use of computer technology to support nursing, including clinical practice, education, administration, and research

  
• Nursing Informatics combines computer science, information science, and nursing science to manage and process nursing data, information, and knowledge to support nursing practice and care delivery
• Nursing Informatics is a specialty that advances practice with technology, enhancing scope of practice and evidence-based practice at the point of care
• Tasks in Nursing Informatics include designing technology to enhance scope of practice, embracing knowledge-driven practice, and capturing tasks performed without limiting practice to traditional routines
• Applications of Nursing Informatics include clinical practice, administration, education, and research, utilizing technology for tasks like automated staff scheduling, electronic medical records, computerized record-keeping, and computerized literature searching
• Benefits of Computer Automation in Health Care include improved access to medical records, decreased redundancy of data entry, decreased time spent in documentation, increased time for client care, facilitation of data collection for research, improved communication, decreased potential for error, and creation of a lifetime clinical record
• Advantages of Computer Information Systems in Health Care include volume of data not being an issue, low maintenance cost, easy accessibility of healthcare providers and systems, coordination and integration with other systems not being a problem, and improved communication and decreased potential for error
• Disadvantages of Computer Information Systems in Health Care include high starting cost, training requirements for healthcare providers, problems with computer viruses and backups, and additional effort and manpower needed for implementation
• Nursing Informatics is recognized as a specialty by the American Nurses Association (ANA) in 1992, with roles like Super user, Trainer/Educator, Systems Analyst, Support Analyst, Systems Administrator, IT Training Manager, Project Manager, and Project Leader
• The Nursing Informatics Specialist (NIS) is a nurse with formal education, certification, and practical experience in using computers in patient care settings, involved in theory development, analysis of information needs, selection of computer systems, design and customization of computer systems, testing, training users, evaluation of effectiveness, maintenance, enhancements, and identification of beneficial computer technologies