WGU D220 PAPER ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔1. Identifiable Patient information is also called: - ✔✔Personal data, personal
information and IPI
✔✔1. Busy ER, what can a nurse do to help? - ✔✔Nurse can start the admission
process.
✔✔1. Staff is resistant to tele-ICU (implementing new process). What are the benefits? -
✔✔Improve workflow, Resources and expertise.
✔✔1. Benefit of MD using CPOE and DSS? - ✔✔Alerts when ordering Viagra when
patient is taking a cardiac medication.
✔✔1. Patient transferring from the ED to the ICU. Information comes from: -
✔✔Progress notes of the previous nurse (if in the same hospital) OR HIE (from different
hospital)
✔✔1. Patient is being transported to another hospital. The first hospital uses one
system, and the admitting hospital uses a different system. What does the nurse need
to do in order to obtain the patients information from the ED visit? - ✔✔Request a copy
of the medical record from the transport team.
✔✔1. Ethical/legal issue with rural hospital and tele-radiology: - ✔✔State licensing issue
✔✔1. Clinical data enters the date warehouse in a de-identified state. - ✔✔Ensures
data is clean and accurate.
✔✔1. Doctors use RFID (radio frequency identification) for which purpose? -
✔✔Improve documentation time and Improve access to documentation.
,✔✔1. Benefit of mHealth - ✔✔Integrates with EHR
✔✔1. What is Analysis? - ✔✔New technology going to roll out and staff is deciding what
can make it better.
✔✔1. Where to get information from? - ✔✔Medline
✔✔1. What is Administrative Information System (AIS)? - ✔✔Systems that support
patient care by managing financial and demographic information and providing reporting
capabilities.
✔✔1. What is the Affordable Care Act? - ✔✔US legislation intended to improve
healthcare quality through using information technology ensuring affordable care and
increasing the number of insured persons.
✔✔1. What is the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)? - ✔✔Agency
within the Department of Health and Human Services devoted to improving healthcare
quality and safety
✔✔1. What is alarm fatigue? - ✔✔Phenomenon that occurs when the volume of alerts,
alarms, or warning messages acts contrary to intention through desensitizing the
clinician to the indicators and/or the purpose.
✔✔1. What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)? - ✔✔legislation
enacted in 2009 to revitalize the nation's economy and create jobs. Authorized incentive
payments to specific types of hospitals and healthcare professionals for adopting and
using interoperable HIT and EHRS
✔✔1. What is analytics? - ✔✔Discovery, interpretation and communication of
meaningful patterns from data to offer solutions and drive decisions
✔✔1. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? - ✔✔Use of algorithms and other technologies
to mimic human cognition and predict outcomes.
✔✔1. What is an audit trail? - ✔✔Electronic tool that can tract system access by
individual user, by user class or by all persons who viewed a specific client record
✔✔1. What is authentication? - ✔✔Action that verifies the authority of users to receive
specified
✔✔1. What is Benchmarking? - ✔✔indicators against which a process is measured
✔✔1. What is Big Data? - ✔✔Very large data sets that are beyond human capability to
analyze or manage without the aid of information technology.
, ✔✔1. What is Biometrics? - ✔✔A unique measurable characteristic of trait of a human
being for automatically recognizing or verifying identity
✔✔1. What is Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)? - ✔✔supports healthcare
practitioners in making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current
clinical knowledge
✔✔1. What is Clinical Information System (CIS)? - ✔✔also known as patient care
information system; Large computerized database management systems used to
access the patient data that are needed to plan, implement, and evaluate care
✔✔1. What is Computer Literacy? - ✔✔Familiarity with the use of computers, including
software tools such as word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation
graphics and email
✔✔1. What is Computerized Provider Order System (CPOS)? - ✔✔An application that
supports direct electronic entry of patient-care-related orders by authorized practitioners
and direct transmission of those orders to designated entities.
✔✔1. What is Confidentiality? - ✔✔Tacit understanding that private information shared
in a situation in which a relationship has been established for the purpose of treatment
or delivery of services will remain protected
✔✔1. What is the Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA)? - ✔✔standard
that provides a framework for the encoding, formatting and semantics of electronic
documents
✔✔1. What is the Continuity of Care Record (CCR)? - ✔✔Technical informatics
standard that provides a snapshot of a person's current health and healthcare to a
provider who does not have access to that person EHR
✔✔1. What is the 21st Century Cures Act? - ✔✔Enacted in 2016, advanced
interoperability and patient access to EHI
✔✔1. What is Data? - ✔✔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
✔✔1. What is Data Analysis? - ✔✔identifies patterns in data and then uses models to
recommend actions
✔✔1. What is Data Cleansing/Data Scrubbing? - ✔✔Use of software to improve the
quality of data to ensure that it is accurate enough to use in data mining and
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔1. Identifiable Patient information is also called: - ✔✔Personal data, personal
information and IPI
✔✔1. Busy ER, what can a nurse do to help? - ✔✔Nurse can start the admission
process.
✔✔1. Staff is resistant to tele-ICU (implementing new process). What are the benefits? -
✔✔Improve workflow, Resources and expertise.
✔✔1. Benefit of MD using CPOE and DSS? - ✔✔Alerts when ordering Viagra when
patient is taking a cardiac medication.
✔✔1. Patient transferring from the ED to the ICU. Information comes from: -
✔✔Progress notes of the previous nurse (if in the same hospital) OR HIE (from different
hospital)
✔✔1. Patient is being transported to another hospital. The first hospital uses one
system, and the admitting hospital uses a different system. What does the nurse need
to do in order to obtain the patients information from the ED visit? - ✔✔Request a copy
of the medical record from the transport team.
✔✔1. Ethical/legal issue with rural hospital and tele-radiology: - ✔✔State licensing issue
✔✔1. Clinical data enters the date warehouse in a de-identified state. - ✔✔Ensures
data is clean and accurate.
✔✔1. Doctors use RFID (radio frequency identification) for which purpose? -
✔✔Improve documentation time and Improve access to documentation.
,✔✔1. Benefit of mHealth - ✔✔Integrates with EHR
✔✔1. What is Analysis? - ✔✔New technology going to roll out and staff is deciding what
can make it better.
✔✔1. Where to get information from? - ✔✔Medline
✔✔1. What is Administrative Information System (AIS)? - ✔✔Systems that support
patient care by managing financial and demographic information and providing reporting
capabilities.
✔✔1. What is the Affordable Care Act? - ✔✔US legislation intended to improve
healthcare quality through using information technology ensuring affordable care and
increasing the number of insured persons.
✔✔1. What is the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)? - ✔✔Agency
within the Department of Health and Human Services devoted to improving healthcare
quality and safety
✔✔1. What is alarm fatigue? - ✔✔Phenomenon that occurs when the volume of alerts,
alarms, or warning messages acts contrary to intention through desensitizing the
clinician to the indicators and/or the purpose.
✔✔1. What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)? - ✔✔legislation
enacted in 2009 to revitalize the nation's economy and create jobs. Authorized incentive
payments to specific types of hospitals and healthcare professionals for adopting and
using interoperable HIT and EHRS
✔✔1. What is analytics? - ✔✔Discovery, interpretation and communication of
meaningful patterns from data to offer solutions and drive decisions
✔✔1. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? - ✔✔Use of algorithms and other technologies
to mimic human cognition and predict outcomes.
✔✔1. What is an audit trail? - ✔✔Electronic tool that can tract system access by
individual user, by user class or by all persons who viewed a specific client record
✔✔1. What is authentication? - ✔✔Action that verifies the authority of users to receive
specified
✔✔1. What is Benchmarking? - ✔✔indicators against which a process is measured
✔✔1. What is Big Data? - ✔✔Very large data sets that are beyond human capability to
analyze or manage without the aid of information technology.
, ✔✔1. What is Biometrics? - ✔✔A unique measurable characteristic of trait of a human
being for automatically recognizing or verifying identity
✔✔1. What is Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)? - ✔✔supports healthcare
practitioners in making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current
clinical knowledge
✔✔1. What is Clinical Information System (CIS)? - ✔✔also known as patient care
information system; Large computerized database management systems used to
access the patient data that are needed to plan, implement, and evaluate care
✔✔1. What is Computer Literacy? - ✔✔Familiarity with the use of computers, including
software tools such as word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation
graphics and email
✔✔1. What is Computerized Provider Order System (CPOS)? - ✔✔An application that
supports direct electronic entry of patient-care-related orders by authorized practitioners
and direct transmission of those orders to designated entities.
✔✔1. What is Confidentiality? - ✔✔Tacit understanding that private information shared
in a situation in which a relationship has been established for the purpose of treatment
or delivery of services will remain protected
✔✔1. What is the Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA)? - ✔✔standard
that provides a framework for the encoding, formatting and semantics of electronic
documents
✔✔1. What is the Continuity of Care Record (CCR)? - ✔✔Technical informatics
standard that provides a snapshot of a person's current health and healthcare to a
provider who does not have access to that person EHR
✔✔1. What is the 21st Century Cures Act? - ✔✔Enacted in 2016, advanced
interoperability and patient access to EHI
✔✔1. What is Data? - ✔✔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
✔✔1. What is Data Analysis? - ✔✔identifies patterns in data and then uses models to
recommend actions
✔✔1. What is Data Cleansing/Data Scrubbing? - ✔✔Use of software to improve the
quality of data to ensure that it is accurate enough to use in data mining and
