NURS 3111 NURSING INFORMATICS &
HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY
FINAL EXAM REVIEW
2025
1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into a single
hospital information system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the continuum of care
for patients 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 & accreditation
purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient records
2. Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to the technologist
when building an integrated hospital information system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all
departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into
a case management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departments
to agree to a single care model, realigning traditional departments into a case
management model
c. Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized information systems, getting
all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments
into a case management model
d. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all
departments to agree to a single billing procedure, keeping all hospital departments
within the traditional vertical structure
e. Allowing all departments to retain their individual information systems, allowing all
departments to have their own billing system, keeping all hospital departments
separate but equal
3. The conceptual components of informatics are:
a. Management, processing, & transformation
b. Data, information, & paradigms
c. Data, information, & knowledge
d. Management, processing, & data
e. Management, processing, & knowledge
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,4. Several colleges have suggested that Wikipedia™ be banned as a resource for academic papers.
Which of the following statements support that ban?
a. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered a primary source of information
b. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered an authoritative source of information
c. Wikipedia™ is sometimes unreliable
d. Wikipedia™ allows almost anyone to edit most of its articles
e. All of the above
5. 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
6. What is a refereed journal?
a. Any scholarly journal
b. Any journal with a title that begins with “The Journal of…”
c. A journal that uses a blind review process to determine the suitability and worth of
articles received for publication
d. Any journal that can be found on Ohio Link or through Kelvin Smith Library
e. Any journal edited by someone with a Ph.D.
7. Several indexes to scholarly literature can be found in the library. Which one of these indexes has
the most applicability to the profession of Nursing?
a. MEDLARS
b. MEDLINE
c. ERIC
d. CINAHL
e. Social SciSearch
8. Why are informatics nurse specialists and nurse scholars so interested in nursing nomenclatures,
taxonomies, and classification?
a. It gives them something to do
b. The information is used to capture, store, and manipulate data in electronic health records
c. It enhances the credibility of the profession
d. It allows nurses to clearly define the profession for
physicians e. All of the above
9. How many classification systems are recognized by the American Nurses Association?
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, a. Six
b. Four
c. Thirteen
d. Seven
e. None
10. Which three data sets must be used together to complete the nursing process?
a. NANDA, Clinical Care Classification (CCC), International Classification of
Nursing Practice (ICNP)
b. NANDA, Nursing Intervention Classification, Patient Care Data Set
c. NANDA, Nursing Outcome Classification, SNOMED RT
d. NANDA, Nursing Intervention Classification, Nursing Outcome Classification
e. NANDA, Omaha System, SNOMED RT
11. Which of the following are forces that impact the nursing profession and are
causing a growing interest in information technology?
a. Change from a retrospective to a prospective reimbursement system
b. Changing standards of health care accreditation agencies
c. Transformation of the health care system from a provider-driven monopoly to
a customer-centered, market driven, health oriented marketplace
d. Shifting emphasis on automation for its own sake to data collection
for survival & improvement
e. All of the above
12. 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
support the delivery of patient care
c. Complex processing of data by a computer to produce new kinds
of information
d. Any use of information technology by nurses in relation to the care of
patients, administration of health care facilities, & educational preparation
of individuals to practice nursing
e. Combination of computer science, information science, & nursing
science designed to assist in the management & processing of nursing
data
13. The functional components of informatics are:
a. Data, information, & knowledge
b. Management, processing, & transformation
c. Management, processing, & information
d. Processing, transformation & knowledge
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HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY
FINAL EXAM REVIEW
2025
1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into a single
hospital information system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the continuum of care
for patients 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 & accreditation
purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient records
2. Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to the technologist
when building an integrated hospital information system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all
departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into
a case management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all departments
to agree to a single care model, realigning traditional departments into a case
management model
c. Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized information systems, getting
all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional departments
into a case management model
d. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting all
departments to agree to a single billing procedure, keeping all hospital departments
within the traditional vertical structure
e. Allowing all departments to retain their individual information systems, allowing all
departments to have their own billing system, keeping all hospital departments
separate but equal
3. The conceptual components of informatics are:
a. Management, processing, & transformation
b. Data, information, & paradigms
c. Data, information, & knowledge
d. Management, processing, & data
e. Management, processing, & knowledge
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,4. Several colleges have suggested that Wikipedia™ be banned as a resource for academic papers.
Which of the following statements support that ban?
a. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered a primary source of information
b. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered an authoritative source of information
c. Wikipedia™ is sometimes unreliable
d. Wikipedia™ allows almost anyone to edit most of its articles
e. All of the above
5. 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
6. What is a refereed journal?
a. Any scholarly journal
b. Any journal with a title that begins with “The Journal of…”
c. A journal that uses a blind review process to determine the suitability and worth of
articles received for publication
d. Any journal that can be found on Ohio Link or through Kelvin Smith Library
e. Any journal edited by someone with a Ph.D.
7. Several indexes to scholarly literature can be found in the library. Which one of these indexes has
the most applicability to the profession of Nursing?
a. MEDLARS
b. MEDLINE
c. ERIC
d. CINAHL
e. Social SciSearch
8. Why are informatics nurse specialists and nurse scholars so interested in nursing nomenclatures,
taxonomies, and classification?
a. It gives them something to do
b. The information is used to capture, store, and manipulate data in electronic health records
c. It enhances the credibility of the profession
d. It allows nurses to clearly define the profession for
physicians e. All of the above
9. How many classification systems are recognized by the American Nurses Association?
7
, a. Six
b. Four
c. Thirteen
d. Seven
e. None
10. Which three data sets must be used together to complete the nursing process?
a. NANDA, Clinical Care Classification (CCC), International Classification of
Nursing Practice (ICNP)
b. NANDA, Nursing Intervention Classification, Patient Care Data Set
c. NANDA, Nursing Outcome Classification, SNOMED RT
d. NANDA, Nursing Intervention Classification, Nursing Outcome Classification
e. NANDA, Omaha System, SNOMED RT
11. Which of the following are forces that impact the nursing profession and are
causing a growing interest in information technology?
a. Change from a retrospective to a prospective reimbursement system
b. Changing standards of health care accreditation agencies
c. Transformation of the health care system from a provider-driven monopoly to
a customer-centered, market driven, health oriented marketplace
d. Shifting emphasis on automation for its own sake to data collection
for survival & improvement
e. All of the above
12. 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
support the delivery of patient care
c. Complex processing of data by a computer to produce new kinds
of information
d. Any use of information technology by nurses in relation to the care of
patients, administration of health care facilities, & educational preparation
of individuals to practice nursing
e. Combination of computer science, information science, & nursing
science designed to assist in the management & processing of nursing
data
13. The functional components of informatics are:
a. Data, information, & knowledge
b. Management, processing, & transformation
c. Management, processing, & information
d. Processing, transformation & knowledge
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