MODULE 6

• Nursing information includes data collected by nurses; data used by nurses; data about nursing activity; and data about the nursing resource.
• Nursing Information System (NIS) is a part of a health care information system that deals with nursing aspects, particularly the maintenance of the nursing record
• advanced practice nurse (APRN) is a registered nurse with advanced education at the master's, specialist, or doctoral level in a specific specialty area of nursing. APRNs use their highly developed knowledge and skills to provide healthcare services independently with little or no supervision from doctors
• Nurse Practitioner may be qualified to give you your medical diagnosis, as well as your prescription to treatments. Depending on where you live your NP can operate with as much independence as a doctor, but in some places may work under a doctor’s supervision.
• Occupational therapists - treat injured, ill, or disabled patients through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. They help these patients develop, recover, improve, as well as maintain the skills needed for daily living and working.
• OCCUPATIONAL THERAPHIST - helping patient to walk
• Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. It aims to help people develop their skills and their ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems.
• physician assistant is a medical professional who operates under a doctor's supervision.
• IT teams are typically small groups of practitioners who are able to develop, deploy and maintain large-scale systems to keep modern businesses running.
• IT team is unique, there are a few common reasons why IT teams are formed. Some IT teams are permanent, while others exist for a temporary period of time to achieve a specific outcome, and are then disbanded.
• Operation Teams focused on operating technology infrastructure (such as networks, data centers and Web services), monitoring them and ensuring services and systems are available and performing normally to support business operations.
• Project teams - These teams are assembled to solve a specific problem, implement a system or make a change.
• Process Teams - These teams (also sometimes known as IT business support teams) are permanent and tasked with owning, managing and improving the IT systems of a specific business process
• LISTSERV an application that distributes messages to subscribers on an electronic mailing list.
• LISTSERV - an electronic mailing list
• Listserv is a method of communicating with a group of people via email. You send one email message to the “reflector” email address, and the software sends the email to all of the group's subscribers.
• WHY PEOPLE JOIN IN LISTSERV - because they share a common interest.
• There is a challenging time ahead. Patients, nurses, midwives and health visitors can all benefit from the lessons learned during the early development of nursing information systems and from the strategic approach now being taken. The realization of these benefits will be dependent on continued collaboration between health care professionals, the Department of Health, the IT suppliers, and even the P.N.A
• 1. Newsgroup 2. Usenet 3. Bulletin Board System (BBS)
• INTERNET APPLICATION - A Web application (Web app) is an application program that is stored on a remote server and delivered over the Internet through a browser interface.
• An application, also referred to as an application program or application software - is a computer software package that performs a specific function directly for an end user or, in some cases, for another application.