NR 599: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
Final Examination. Questions and answers
already graded A. Latest update
Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital
departments into a single hospitalinformation system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized
systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while
the continuum of care forpatients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are
incompatible with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals& Health Care Organizations to
maintain specific information for billing &
accreditationpurposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive
patient records
2. When would you use the word “and” in a literature search?
a. When you want to eliminate citations with a certain term in the
title
b. When only one of multiple search terms must be in
the title of the citation
c. . When all of multiple search terms must be in the
title of the citation
d. When you want to index a particular article
e. When you want the abstract of the citations to be included in the
literature search
3. How many classification systems are recognized by the American
Nurses Association?
a. Six
b. Four
c. Thirteen
d. Seven
e. None
,4. Which of the following statements is a definition of Nursing Informatics?
a. Collected information technologies concerned with
medical patient care &decision making
b. Use of information technology management
concepts & methods to supportthe delivery of
patient care
c. Complex processing of data by a computer to
produce new kinds ofinformation
d. Any use of information technology by nurses in
relation to the care of patients, administration of
health care facilities, & educational preparation
ofindividuals to practice nursing
e. Combination of computer science, information
science, & nursing sciencedesigned to assist in the
management & processing of nursing data
5. Security can be defined as:
a. The right of individuals to determine at what time, in
what way, & to what extentinformation about them is
communicated to others
b. Physical protection of information from unauthorized access,
modification, & destruction
c. An expectation that information collected will be used for
the purpose for which it wasgathered
d. Organizational beliefs about who generates, stores, retrieves &
uses information
e. The belief that the existence, purpose, & type of records in
system shall be publicknowledge
6. Confidentiality can be defined as:
a. Organizational beliefs about who generates, stores, retrieves &
uses information
b. Physical protection of information from unauthorized access,
modification, & destruction
c. An expectation that information collected will be used for
the purpose for which it was gathered
, d. The right of individuals to determine at what time, in
what way, & to what extentinformation about them is
communicated to others
e. The belief that the existence, purpose, & type of records in
system shall be publicknowledge
7. A consumer health care application can be described as:
a. An intervention providing health care information through
technology
b. An outcome resulting in patient education
c. A care plan detailing the steps in teaching the patient
d. A patient’s application to be accepted into an insurance plan
e. All of the above
8. Which of the following statements represent conditions
recommended by the Institute ofMedicine for the future
electronic health record?
a. Users must be confident that the information they
have entered will integrate datafrom all sources
reliably
b. Clinicians must actively use the record in the clinical process
c. Clinicians must understand that the record is a resource for
use beyond patient care
d. Users must be proficient in the use of information
systems in health serviceorganizations
e. All of the above
9. Which of the following are limitations of Geographic Information
Systems?
a. Costs are often prohibitive
b. Software packages are difficult to learn
c. Data from government databases may not be compatible
with the GIS being used for research
d. None of The above
e. All of the above
10. Which of the following statements reflect
goals that health care facilities mightconsider when
Final Examination. Questions and answers
already graded A. Latest update
Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital
departments into a single hospitalinformation system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized
systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while
the continuum of care forpatients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are
incompatible with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals& Health Care Organizations to
maintain specific information for billing &
accreditationpurposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive
patient records
2. When would you use the word “and” in a literature search?
a. When you want to eliminate citations with a certain term in the
title
b. When only one of multiple search terms must be in
the title of the citation
c. . When all of multiple search terms must be in the
title of the citation
d. When you want to index a particular article
e. When you want the abstract of the citations to be included in the
literature search
3. How many classification systems are recognized by the American
Nurses Association?
a. Six
b. Four
c. Thirteen
d. Seven
e. None
,4. Which of the following statements is a definition of Nursing Informatics?
a. Collected information technologies concerned with
medical patient care &decision making
b. Use of information technology management
concepts & methods to supportthe delivery of
patient care
c. Complex processing of data by a computer to
produce new kinds ofinformation
d. Any use of information technology by nurses in
relation to the care of patients, administration of
health care facilities, & educational preparation
ofindividuals to practice nursing
e. Combination of computer science, information
science, & nursing sciencedesigned to assist in the
management & processing of nursing data
5. Security can be defined as:
a. The right of individuals to determine at what time, in
what way, & to what extentinformation about them is
communicated to others
b. Physical protection of information from unauthorized access,
modification, & destruction
c. An expectation that information collected will be used for
the purpose for which it wasgathered
d. Organizational beliefs about who generates, stores, retrieves &
uses information
e. The belief that the existence, purpose, & type of records in
system shall be publicknowledge
6. Confidentiality can be defined as:
a. Organizational beliefs about who generates, stores, retrieves &
uses information
b. Physical protection of information from unauthorized access,
modification, & destruction
c. An expectation that information collected will be used for
the purpose for which it was gathered
, d. The right of individuals to determine at what time, in
what way, & to what extentinformation about them is
communicated to others
e. The belief that the existence, purpose, & type of records in
system shall be publicknowledge
7. A consumer health care application can be described as:
a. An intervention providing health care information through
technology
b. An outcome resulting in patient education
c. A care plan detailing the steps in teaching the patient
d. A patient’s application to be accepted into an insurance plan
e. All of the above
8. Which of the following statements represent conditions
recommended by the Institute ofMedicine for the future
electronic health record?
a. Users must be confident that the information they
have entered will integrate datafrom all sources
reliably
b. Clinicians must actively use the record in the clinical process
c. Clinicians must understand that the record is a resource for
use beyond patient care
d. Users must be proficient in the use of information
systems in health serviceorganizations
e. All of the above
9. Which of the following are limitations of Geographic Information
Systems?
a. Costs are often prohibitive
b. Software packages are difficult to learn
c. Data from government databases may not be compatible
with the GIS being used for research
d. None of The above
e. All of the above
10. Which of the following statements reflect
goals that health care facilities mightconsider when
