Is the means by which actual transfer of data from one site to another takes place.

Is a field of applied computer science concerned with the processing of information such as nursing information.

The third significant historic perspective concerns on the nursing practice, education, nursing content, and confidentiality and security, as well as federal legislation that impacts the use of computers for nursing

In this era, national and international conferences and workshops were conducted by few nursing pioneers to help nurses understand and get involved in the new emergiing nursing specialty.

Refers to electronic storage devices or chips on the motherboard of a computer.

is made of a dielectric or nonconducting plastic material. Is a thin, flat sheet made of firm nonconducting material.

Is a machine that uses electronic components and instructions to the components to perform calculations, repetitive and complex procedures, process text, and manipulate data and signals.

Is the general term applied to the instructions that direct the computer's hardware to perform work.

Are specialized application programs that require more involvement of the user in directing the program to do the necessary work.

These devices allow the computer to report its result to the external world.

Programs that are called natural languages

The largest type of computer, a computational oriented computer specially designed for scientific applications requiring a gigantic amount of calculations that, to be useful, must be processed at superfast speeds.

A key factor in cloud storage is_____.

have instruction with one-to-one correspondence with a machine language instruction. It is far more like the English language

Is interdisciplinary field concerned with technologies, strategies, and methodologies for getting the right information to people when it is needed without people getting overwhelmed with irrelevant and unwanted information.

Is a means of communicating with the computer

Is another impact of the escalating cost of healthcare, consumers are encouraged to be active partners in managing their own health

Mini magnetic tape devices, were a form of relatively fast backup storage for people's data

Major types of computers are the following. Select all that apply.

The basic types of software are the following. Select all that apply.

Are designed to help the user keep hard disk space clean and efficient. They do this by analyzing use of disk space, defragmenting the drive, and deleting duplicate files if the user so commands.

The machine language consists only of the _______numbers.

Usually compresses information in files to be archived, and then in a compressed form in some long-term storage device.

Are computer programs that either blank the monitor screen or fill it with constantly moving images when the user is away from the computer but does not turn it completely off.

Are rigid disks that hold a higher density of information and have higher speed. They were designed to store sound and data and held about 737 MB of information.

What period when computers were first developed?

Refers to working memory used for primary storage. It is used as temporary storage and also known as main memory.

Nursing Informaticist community gather annually in several key events. Except

Closely associated with the need to run multiple parts of a program at the same time to accomodate multiple users at the same time