NURS 5355 Clinical Practice 2, Module 1 Study Guide Exam Fully Answered.

What is informatics? - Answer Accounts for developing, designing, adopting, and applying technologies in health care to improve delivery of service and improve quality and safety of care. What is the role of informatics in healthcare? - Answer To improve delivery, quality, and safety of services How effective are EHRs? - Answer EHRs are a standard part of nursing and medical care. There are pros and unintended consequences of EHR use in health care: Dramatic savings, shared knowledge, patient participation, the impersonalization of care, improve coordination, and improve outcomes. How does the EHR impact the quality and safety of care? - Answer By reducing medical errors. Using a system approach. Analyze the role of EMR in reducing errors and improving patient outcomes. - Answer EHRs improve risk management by: 1. Providing clinical alerts and reminders 2. Improving aggregation, analysis, and communication of patient information 3. making it easier to consider all aspects of a patient's condition 4. Supporting diagnostic and therapeutic decision making 5. Gathering all relevant information in one place 6. Support for therapeutic decisions 7. enabling EB decisions at point of care 8. Preventing adverse events 9. Providing built-in safeguard against prescribing treatments that would result in adverse events 10. Enhancing research and monitoring for improvements in clinical quality.