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Question 19
Type: MCSA
Nursing informatics employs information and computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practice,
including research. Which is an example of supporting research?
1. Development of a standardized nursing language
2. Identifying evidence of best clinical nursing practices
3. Familiarity with spreadsheets and statistics software and analysis
4. Housing collected client data within automated record systems
Correct Answer: 1
Question 20
Type: MCSA
Which of the following is not associated with information literacy?
1. Recognizing when information is needed
2. Ability to find, evaluate, and effectively use information
3. Familiarity with the use of personal computers and software
4. Understanding ethical issues surrounding the use of information
Correct Answer: 3
Question 21
Type: MCSA
Which role is only appropriate for the informatics nurse specialist (INS)?
1. Disseminating information for appropriate health care uses
2. Transforming data into information
3. Transforming information into knowledge
4. The design of nursing research protocols and databases
Correct Answer: 4
Question 22
Type: MCMA
Which of the following examples demonstrate how nursing informatics helps to support nursing practice?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Quick access to computer-archived patient data from previous encounters
2. Computer-generated client documentation including discharge instructions
3. Computer-generated nursing care plans and critical pathways
4. Tools to assist consumers in assuming greater responsibility for payment for services
5. Prompts that appear during documentation to ensure comprehensive charting
Correct Answer: 1,2,3,5
Question 23
Type: MCSA
Information is defined as which of the following?
1. The management and processing of facts
2. Interpreted data
3. A collection of numbers, characters, or facts that are needed for analysis and possible action
4. A synthesis of data derived from several sources to produce a single concept or idea
Correct Answer: 2
Question 24
Type: MCSA
Nurses need to become skilled at using patient-centered IT tools to access information that can expand their
knowledge in a just-in-time, evidence-based approach. Which one of these answers best indicates the nurse is
functioning as a knowledge worker?
1. The nurse assumes the role of knowledge user.
2. The nurse shifts from primarily using critical thinking to also using critical synthesis.
3. The nurse assumes the roles of data gatherer and information user.
4. The nurse utilizes computerized assessment and documentation forms, including prompts.
Correct Answer: 2
Question 25
Type: MCSA
The TIGER initiative is an acronym for which of the following?
1. Technology Information Grants Electronic Records
2. Technological Initiative Given Electronic Reform
3. Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform
4. Technology Information Guiding Electronic Reports
Correct Answer: 3
Hebda, Handbook of Informatics, 5/e Test Bank
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Question 26
Type: MCSA
The Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) project sets an agenda to improve the quality and safety of
the health care delivery system. To achieve the goals set by QSEN, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) suggested the
following competencies for nurses except for which of the following?
1. Patient centered care
2. Team work and collaboration
3. Informatics and evidence-based practice
4. Professional code of conduct
Correct Answer: 4
Question 27
Type: MCSA
Technology has been useful in reducing errors by assisting the health care team to identify the patient before
rendering care. The most common way for nurses to identify patients using technology is through which of the
following?
1. Handheld devices
2. Use of barcodes
3. Use of computers on wheels
4. Reviewing patient monitors
Correct Answer: 2
Question 28
Type: FIB
CPOE is an acronym for_____________.
Standard Text:
Question 29
Type: MCSA
Access to patient care data and utilization of nursing research are essential components of evidence-based practice
designed to increase patient safety and provide quality care. Which of the following can technology cannot be
employed to remove barriers to information and evidence-based practice?
1. Online report cards
2. Handheld devices
3. Electronic spreadsheet software to manage data
4. World Wide Web
Correct Answer: 1
Question 30
Type: FIB
The ________________ has advanced, graduate education in nursing informatics or a related field and may hold
ANCC certification.
Standard Text:
Question 31
Type: MCSA
The reason that nursing lags behind in the education of nursing informatics specialists is because of which of the
following?
1. The surplus of nursing informatics professionals in the hospital setting
2. The lack of qualified faculty in graduate programs
3. Too few nurses are interested in the specialty area
4. Nursing informatics is an expensive specialty with little government funding
Correct Answer: 2
Question 32
Type: FIB
___________________________ fills in the educational gap between undergraduate and graduate nursing
education programs in informatics.
Standard Text:
Question 33
Type: MCSA
Which of the following groups have been selected to help drive the changes necessary to transform the health care
delivery system, improve quality of services delivery, and improve safety?
1. Software engineers
2. Members of TIGER initiative
3. Members of the Institute of Medicine
4. Informatics nurse specialists
Correct Answer: 4
Question 34
Type: MCSA
The Informatics Nurse Specialist is an integral member of the health care team with the expertise to:
1. Create a vision of what is possible in the specialty of informatics.
2. Create standardized nursing languages.
3. Create interactive web sites .
4. Create strategic plans for hardware improvement
Correct Answer: 2
Question 35
Type: MCSA
Which of the following answers is the best definition of data?
1. Data are a collection of numbers, characters, or facts that are gathered according to some perceived need for
analysis and possibly action at a later point in time.
2. Data are the synthesis of information derived from several sources to produce a single concept or idea.
3. The definition of data is knowledge used appropriately to manage and solve problems.
4. The general term data is used to refer to the management and processing of information with the assistance of
computers.
Correct Answer: 1
