NURS 6051 INFORMATICS EXAM 1
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VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100%
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While planning care for a patient, the nurse uses the new healthcare
informatics system to gather and analyze data from the patient's history,
exams, lab results, and medication list. How does informatics assist in this
task?
A) Learning to operate computers
B) Using information technology to manage healthcare data
C) Managing nursing assignments
D) Surfing the internet for health info
✔✔ Answer: B) Using information technology to manage healthcare data
A nurse informatics specialist is evaluating a facility’s health information
system and reviewing the original goals of the national health IT strategy.
Which outcome would best show that those early goals have been achieved?
A) Personal electronic health records are no longer used
B) A shared governance system supports data use to improve public health
C) Electronic health records are used in all hospitals across one state
D) The use of telehealth systems has been scaled back
✔✔ Answer: B) A shared governance system supports data use to improve
public health
Which of the following best describes the current priority in nursing
informatics practice today?
A) Collecting data directly at the patient’s bedside
B) Studying previously collected data
C) Interpreting grouped data sets
D) Making clinical decisions based on processed information
✔✔ Answer: A) Collecting data directly at the patient’s bedside
,A nurse interested in nursing informatics is reading a journal article about early
computerized clinical information systems. Which information would the nurse
most likely find as characteristic of these early systems?
A) Two or three functions could be performed at one time.
B) Information could be shared among several departments.
C) Different software systems were created for different areas.
D) Data entry needed to be done once. - ANSWER✔✔C) Different software
systems were created for different areas.
A nursing informatics specialist is describing the benefits of informatics to a group
of agency staff. Which would the nurse identify as a primary benefit for healthcare
in general?
A) Increase in the usability of data
B) Promotion of cost saving
C) Promotion of time saving
D) Ability to identify patterns - ANSWER✔✔A) Increase in the usability of data
A nursing informatics specialist is speaking to a group of colleagues about the
benefits of informatics for the nursing profession. Which benefits would the
specialist most likely include? Select all that apply.
A) Improvement in documentation
B) Use of data for quality control
C) Building of evidence-based knowledge
D) Increase in time needed for documentation
E) Separation of nursing information from other healthcare information -
ANSWER✔✔A) Improvement in documentation
B) Use of data for quality control
, C) Building of evidence-based knowledge
A nurse is presenting an in-service program on nursing informatics competencies.
When describing the need for computer fluency for nursing informatics
competencies, which would the nurse include as characterizing this concept?
A) Temporary state
B) Lifelong learning
C) Task oriented
D) Competency - ANSWER✔✔B) Lifelong learning
A nursing informatics specialist is explaining the difference between computer
literacy and computer fluency. Which statement correctly defines computer
fluency?
A) "Computer fluency is the ability of the nurse to perform various tasks with a
computer."
B) "Computer literacy is the skill to be able to troubleshoot parts of the computer
access information from the computer data."
C) "Computer fluency is the understanding of how to use a computer when
needed."
D) "Computer literacy is knowing how to locate and evaluate information." -
ANSWER✔✔C) "Computer fluency is the understanding of how to use a computer
when needed."
A nursing informatics specialist is characterized by colleagues as an informatics
innovator. This nurse would demonstrate the ability to:
A) Use basic desktop software.
B) Generate informatics theory.
C) Make judgments based on trends. D) Communicate via a computer. -
ANSWER✔✔B) Generate informatics theory.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT!!!
While planning care for a patient, the nurse uses the new healthcare
informatics system to gather and analyze data from the patient's history,
exams, lab results, and medication list. How does informatics assist in this
task?
A) Learning to operate computers
B) Using information technology to manage healthcare data
C) Managing nursing assignments
D) Surfing the internet for health info
✔✔ Answer: B) Using information technology to manage healthcare data
A nurse informatics specialist is evaluating a facility’s health information
system and reviewing the original goals of the national health IT strategy.
Which outcome would best show that those early goals have been achieved?
A) Personal electronic health records are no longer used
B) A shared governance system supports data use to improve public health
C) Electronic health records are used in all hospitals across one state
D) The use of telehealth systems has been scaled back
✔✔ Answer: B) A shared governance system supports data use to improve
public health
Which of the following best describes the current priority in nursing
informatics practice today?
A) Collecting data directly at the patient’s bedside
B) Studying previously collected data
C) Interpreting grouped data sets
D) Making clinical decisions based on processed information
✔✔ Answer: A) Collecting data directly at the patient’s bedside
,A nurse interested in nursing informatics is reading a journal article about early
computerized clinical information systems. Which information would the nurse
most likely find as characteristic of these early systems?
A) Two or three functions could be performed at one time.
B) Information could be shared among several departments.
C) Different software systems were created for different areas.
D) Data entry needed to be done once. - ANSWER✔✔C) Different software
systems were created for different areas.
A nursing informatics specialist is describing the benefits of informatics to a group
of agency staff. Which would the nurse identify as a primary benefit for healthcare
in general?
A) Increase in the usability of data
B) Promotion of cost saving
C) Promotion of time saving
D) Ability to identify patterns - ANSWER✔✔A) Increase in the usability of data
A nursing informatics specialist is speaking to a group of colleagues about the
benefits of informatics for the nursing profession. Which benefits would the
specialist most likely include? Select all that apply.
A) Improvement in documentation
B) Use of data for quality control
C) Building of evidence-based knowledge
D) Increase in time needed for documentation
E) Separation of nursing information from other healthcare information -
ANSWER✔✔A) Improvement in documentation
B) Use of data for quality control
, C) Building of evidence-based knowledge
A nurse is presenting an in-service program on nursing informatics competencies.
When describing the need for computer fluency for nursing informatics
competencies, which would the nurse include as characterizing this concept?
A) Temporary state
B) Lifelong learning
C) Task oriented
D) Competency - ANSWER✔✔B) Lifelong learning
A nursing informatics specialist is explaining the difference between computer
literacy and computer fluency. Which statement correctly defines computer
fluency?
A) "Computer fluency is the ability of the nurse to perform various tasks with a
computer."
B) "Computer literacy is the skill to be able to troubleshoot parts of the computer
access information from the computer data."
C) "Computer fluency is the understanding of how to use a computer when
needed."
D) "Computer literacy is knowing how to locate and evaluate information." -
ANSWER✔✔C) "Computer fluency is the understanding of how to use a computer
when needed."
A nursing informatics specialist is characterized by colleagues as an informatics
innovator. This nurse would demonstrate the ability to:
A) Use basic desktop software.
B) Generate informatics theory.
C) Make judgments based on trends. D) Communicate via a computer. -
ANSWER✔✔B) Generate informatics theory.
