Monday, April 30, 2012

G R A P H I C S

           What do we do when we have nothing to do? Most of us surf the internet. What do we surf in the internet? Most of us are busy updating our facebook, twitter, blogger, tumblr, and many more. And we became more fun when there are pictures that we see in these sites. We are fun of uploading pictures about the happenings in our life. These picture originate from files, scans, photographic process or illustration processes.
 Let's talk about Vector graphics. It is a set of instructions to recreate a picture. It is usually flat and cartoon like, resizes better than bitmaps, requires less storage space, can be easily edited, and it is not usually as realistic as bitmap images. Let's proceed to 3D graphics. This is a three-dimensional objects that are created using a set of instructions like vector graphics. It contains lengths and locations that forms a wire frame of the 3D object. Rendering is a process covered with a skin surface texture and color. The last is Game graphics, which is a stimulation and interactive games that make use of the realistic images to add thrill and pleasure while playing the game.


Know thy Computers

Know thy Computers

              I think everybody in this world already knows what computer is. We know that this is a device used to search the net, to make some encoding for school and offices or just to simply play some games. Computer is so important nowadays. But the question is, do we all know the parts of this very useful device? well... Let me share you some idea.

       Computer is composed of Hardware and Software. When we say Hardware, it is all about the physical component of the computer system that is hard and can be touched. It is classified as input devices, output device and input/output device. When we say Software, it is a series of instructions written for the computer to do functions. it comes as a package and is usually distributed on removable media like CD's, Floppies and DVDs... Maybe you suddenly think how the software work. well, there is a language on machines and the only one that can understand it is a microprocessor. Microprocessor runs on signals produced by two electronic behaviors; the flow and no flow. it represents different bits.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Great Contributors

Nursing Informatics was developed mainly because of some people that gave importance to it and because of some people that don't want to repeat all the errors that they experienced before. This is just one way of improving the system in a hospital- from assessing the patient cephalocaudal to reading some of the diagnostic procedures that was performed on him like x-rays, fecalysis, urinalysis and many more.

Let us know the great contributors of nursing informatics. Florence Nightingale made it first when she want to make the procedures to the soldiers easily. Mary Ann Bitzer  was the one who improved the field in Obstetric nursing by still retaining the materials by the students. Next one is Marion Ball and Kathryn Hannah who presented the paper in a nursing journal by using nursing informatics in many nursing processes.

Monday, April 23, 2012

From where it started

Healthcare exists for decades. In that long period of time, our facilities innovated and our system in keeping records became easier. Way back before, there are four main problems of nurses. These problems are Excessive Documentation, Long Turnaround time, Inaccurate Nursing Processes and Poor Communication. The Famous Florence Nightingale had constantly thought of developing an efficient documentation system for war patients so that she can compare outcomes after applying the best interventions. because of this, she was recognized as an early public health informaticist where her efforts led to a total reorganization of the healthcare statistics that should be collected. These problems are still existing now, but it was lessen because of new technology.

In order to lessen these problems, nursing informatics is mandated to be taught in student nurses. Their main goal is that it will not be a big problem for them in the near future when they will already be professional nurses.