Introduction to Nursing Informatics

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Lessons are in the order that makes each one easier than the last. Each unit ends with a short quiz.

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   Unit 1

   Introduction to Nursing Informatics

   Nurses have always been the hospital's biggest data collectors. Informatics is the art of turning that data into better decisions.
   1. Definition and Scope of Nursing InformaticsFree Nurses were collecting data long before computers arrived. Informatics is what you do with it. 10 min
   3. The Data–Information–Knowledge–Wisdom (DIKW) Model Five numbers on a scrap of paper mean nothing, until a nurse makes them mean everything. 10 min
   4. Importance and Challenges of Nursing Informatics Fewer drug errors, faster handovers, better decisions, and the patient at the centre of it all. 10 min
   5. Unit 1 quiz5 questions on this unit 6 min
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   Unit 2 Full plan

   Fundamentals of Computers and Digital Skills

   What is really inside the machine on the nurses' station, how it stores a patient's record, and the everyday digital skills every nurse needs.
   1. Components of a Computer System Input, process, output, store. Once you see the cycle, every machine on the ward makes sense. 9 min
   2. Computer Memory, Storage and Units of Data Why the work vanishes when the power goes, and how big a patient record really is. 9 min
   3. Computer Software and the Operating System Hardware is the body; software is the set of instructions that tells it what to do. 8 min
   4. Computer Networks, the Internet and Cloud Computing One computer is useful. Computers that talk to each other change how a whole health system works. 8 min
   5. Basic Digital Skills and Information Literacy Files, email, searching and spotting fake health news. Small skills that save hours and protect patients. 10 min
   6. Unit 2 quiz7 questions on this unit 9 min
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   Unit 3 Full plan

   Health Information Systems, Records and Documentation

   From the ward register to the national dashboard, how health data travels, how electronic records work, and how to document so it stands up.
   1. Health Information Systems How a tick in a clinic register in Sokoto ends up on the national dashboard in Abuja. 10 min
   2. Electronic Health Records Three similar acronyms, three different owners and reaches. Learn which is which. 9 min
   3. Standardised Nursing Terminologies and Interoperability If one nurse writes "pressure sore" and another "bedsore", can a computer tell they mean the same thing? 10 min
   4. Principles of Nursing Documentation If it wasn't documented, it wasn't done. How to write records that protect the patient and you. 11 min
   5. Unit 3 quiz7 questions on this unit 9 min
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   Unit 4 Full plan

   Telehealth and Mobile Health

   When the patient is in Bauchi and the specialist is in Lagos, technology closes the gap. Telehealth, telenursing and mHealth in Nigeria.
   1. Telehealth and Telenursing Care that travels down a phone line instead of a pothole-filled road. 10 min
   2. Mobile Health (mHealth) in Nigeria Phones, apps and text messages are already part of Nigeria's health system. Here is where. 10 min
   3. Procedure for a Telenursing Consultation Same professional standards, different room. A step-by-step guide to a telenursing call. 9 min
   4. Unit 4 quiz5 questions on this unit 6 min
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   Unit 5 Full plan

   Privacy, Data Protection and Ethics

   Privacy, confidentiality and security, what the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 demands, and the ethics of using health data well.
   1. Privacy, Confidentiality and Information Security Three words that sound alike but do different jobs, and the habits that keep patient data safe. 10 min
   2. Data Protection and the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 Nigeria's data law in plain words, and why health data get extra protection under it. 11 min
   3. Ethical Issues in Nursing Informatics The law sets the floor. Ethics asks what a good nurse should do with the information she holds. 10 min
   4. Unit 5 quiz7 questions on this unit 9 min

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