WGU C468 Information Management and
Application of Technology Actual Questions and
Answers 100% Correct (verified)
• 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
• information -✓✓Data that has been interpreted
• knowledge -✓✓synthesis of information from several sources to produce a single
concept
• information technology -✓✓The management and processing of information with the
assistance of computers
• wisdom -✓✓Occurs when knowledge is used appropriately to manage and solve
problems
• data gatherer -✓✓In this role of the nurse collects clinical data such as vital signs
• information user -✓✓The nurse interprets and structures clinical data such as a clients
report of experience pain and to information that can be used to eight clinical decision
making and patient monitoring overtime quality assurance and infection control activities
exemplify other ways in which nurses use information to detect patterns
• Knowledge user -✓✓This role as seen one individual patient data or compared with
existing nursing knowledge
• Knowledge builder -✓✓Nurses display this role when the aggregate clinical data into
patterns across patients that serve to create new knowledge or can be interpreted within
the context of existing nursing knowledge
• knowledge management -✓✓The creation of systems that enable organizations to tap
in to the knowledge experiences in creativity and their staff to improve their performance
• Informatics -✓✓The science and art of turning data into information
• Medical informatics -✓✓Application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as
well as to the practice of medicine
, • Nursing informatics -✓✓Broadly defined as the use of information and computer
technology to support all aspects of nursing practice including the direct delivery of care
administration education and research
• computer literacy -✓✓Popular term used to refer to a familiar Arity with the use of
personal computers including the use of software tools such as word processing
spreadsheets databases and presentation Graphics and email
• Information literacy -✓✓The ability to recognize when information is needed as well as
the skills to find evaluate and use the needed information effectively
• Informatics Nurse and skills -✓✓Individual has advance preparation and information
management
Fiscal management interrogation of multidisciplinary language/standards of care skills in
critical thinking data management and processing decision-making and system
development and computer skills identification and provision of data for decision-making
• INS: Informatics Nurse Specialist -✓✓Sophisticated Level of understanding and skills
and information management and computer technology demonstrating most of the
Competencies seen at the previous three levels. The INS is the innovator who sees the
broad version of what is possible and how it may be attained. The ANA calls for
educational preparation for the INS that enables him or her to conduct informatics
research and generate informatics theory.
• information literacy -✓✓The ability to recognize when information is needed as well as
the skills to find, evaluate and use needed information effectively
• Information science -✓✓This is the focus on how to gather, process and transform
information into knowledge. It also incorporates features from these 5 other sciences:
communication science, computer science, social science, library science and cognitive
science
• Knowledge Workers -✓✓Nurses in this this type of role are continuous learners, use
technology to support and inform nursing practice, and generate knowledge as a
product
• Clinical Decision Support Tool Ex -✓✓Clinical practice guidelines can allow for the
creation of nursing policies.
• CPOE, barcode medication administration and clinical decision support are all
examples of what? -✓✓Information Technology
• What is the named used to process by which the physician or provider enters orders
electronically into the system -✓✓CPOE
Application of Technology Actual Questions and
Answers 100% Correct (verified)
• 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
• information -✓✓Data that has been interpreted
• knowledge -✓✓synthesis of information from several sources to produce a single
concept
• information technology -✓✓The management and processing of information with the
assistance of computers
• wisdom -✓✓Occurs when knowledge is used appropriately to manage and solve
problems
• data gatherer -✓✓In this role of the nurse collects clinical data such as vital signs
• information user -✓✓The nurse interprets and structures clinical data such as a clients
report of experience pain and to information that can be used to eight clinical decision
making and patient monitoring overtime quality assurance and infection control activities
exemplify other ways in which nurses use information to detect patterns
• Knowledge user -✓✓This role as seen one individual patient data or compared with
existing nursing knowledge
• Knowledge builder -✓✓Nurses display this role when the aggregate clinical data into
patterns across patients that serve to create new knowledge or can be interpreted within
the context of existing nursing knowledge
• knowledge management -✓✓The creation of systems that enable organizations to tap
in to the knowledge experiences in creativity and their staff to improve their performance
• Informatics -✓✓The science and art of turning data into information
• Medical informatics -✓✓Application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as
well as to the practice of medicine
, • Nursing informatics -✓✓Broadly defined as the use of information and computer
technology to support all aspects of nursing practice including the direct delivery of care
administration education and research
• computer literacy -✓✓Popular term used to refer to a familiar Arity with the use of
personal computers including the use of software tools such as word processing
spreadsheets databases and presentation Graphics and email
• Information literacy -✓✓The ability to recognize when information is needed as well as
the skills to find evaluate and use the needed information effectively
• Informatics Nurse and skills -✓✓Individual has advance preparation and information
management
Fiscal management interrogation of multidisciplinary language/standards of care skills in
critical thinking data management and processing decision-making and system
development and computer skills identification and provision of data for decision-making
• INS: Informatics Nurse Specialist -✓✓Sophisticated Level of understanding and skills
and information management and computer technology demonstrating most of the
Competencies seen at the previous three levels. The INS is the innovator who sees the
broad version of what is possible and how it may be attained. The ANA calls for
educational preparation for the INS that enables him or her to conduct informatics
research and generate informatics theory.
• information literacy -✓✓The ability to recognize when information is needed as well as
the skills to find, evaluate and use needed information effectively
• Information science -✓✓This is the focus on how to gather, process and transform
information into knowledge. It also incorporates features from these 5 other sciences:
communication science, computer science, social science, library science and cognitive
science
• Knowledge Workers -✓✓Nurses in this this type of role are continuous learners, use
technology to support and inform nursing practice, and generate knowledge as a
product
• Clinical Decision Support Tool Ex -✓✓Clinical practice guidelines can allow for the
creation of nursing policies.
• CPOE, barcode medication administration and clinical decision support are all
examples of what? -✓✓Information Technology
• What is the named used to process by which the physician or provider enters orders
electronically into the system -✓✓CPOE
