NURSING INFORMATICS THEORIES

AND MODELS
JET LEE L. OCAMPO
MANUEL V. GALLEGO FOUNDATION COLLEGES
 Nursing Informatics

• combination of CS, ICT

and nursing science
• to enhance the
informational processes
• care, administration,
research and education
 Nursing Informatics

• healthcare data,
information, knowledge,
wisdom
• collected, stored,
processed, communicated,
support
Nursing Science Information &
Communications
Technology
Computer
Science

Nursing Information Process

C – care
A – administration
R – Research
E – education
Mary Ann Bitzer (1963)
•OB Nursing simulation program
 Marion Ball and Kathryn Hannah (1985)
•Nursing Informatics
•Observed and noted the phenomenal use of computers by
nurses to replace many of their nurse function
 Blum (1986)
•Classified computers into function
•Process data, information or knowledge
Judith Graves and Sheila Corcoran (1989)
•“The Study of Nursing Informatics”
•CS, ICT and Nursing Science
•data-information-knowledge continuum
 Irene Jones and Ramona Nelson (1989)
•added wisdom
•personal, social, ethical, moral, cultural and other values
•solving complicated problems
American Nurses Association (ANA) 1992
•nursing informatics as specialty
 Goosen (1996)
•emphasized the effects of computer systems on nursing care
delivery
THEORIES IN NURSING INFORMATICS
 Change Theories

• Rogers Diffusion of
Innovation Theory
(unplanned change)
• Lewin’s Change Theory
(planned change)
 Rogers Diffusion of Innovation Theory
(unplanned change)

• Innovators
• Early Adopters
• Early Majority
• Late Majority
• Laggards
Lewin’s Change Theory (planned change)

• Unfreezing
• Moving
• Refreezing
 Information Theories

• Blum’s theory
• Data-Information-
Knowledge-Wisdom
Continuum
 Cognitive Theories

• Mental models
• Skill, acquisition
• Perception
• Problem solving
 Some Application of NI Theories

• Automating Data Entry

• Sharing of Information Through
Network Systems
• Knowledge Bases and Decision
Support System
• Wisdom and Expert Support
Systems