Chapter 1 2 This Role Only Part Functioning Knowledge Worker

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

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