Question

!.Identify the underlying theories and concepts that build informatics?

2. Depict the relationship between technology, informatics and caring

Answer 1

Ans) 1) Theory with Nursing Informatics
Theories in nursing include concepts and relationships that assist in providing framework. Theories that assist in defining nursing informatics include systems theory, cognitive theory, and change theory.
• Systems theory: Systems theory looks at interacting parts within boundaries, and can be seen with the use
of technology and the body systems of patients.
• Cognitive theory: Cognitive theory can be related to input, output, and processing.
• Change theory: Change theory is applied in looking at the dynamic processes that are incorporated with nursing informatics.

2) Patient-centered care simply as care that is more centered around the needs and preferences of patient and family. As described above, there are a number of ways that informatics can be used to promote such patient-centeredness in oncology care.

- Benefits include better access to health information and health services, improved patient care and safety, greater coordination of care, and more empowered patients.

- At the same time, it is important that information and technology not come between providers and their patients, with providers spending more time with computer terminals than patients.

- Real issues of cost, access to and comfort with technology, privacy and security, health literacy, feasibility, and social inequality must be addressed. Perhaps the greatest challenge for all is to find and apply information that is high-quality and helpful from the vast array of other information that is now available and use it to improve patient care while preserving the humanity of this interaction.