Comprehensive Practice Exam
This ATI Nurse's Touch: Nursing Informatics and Technology exam covers how information
technology merges with nursing science to improve patient safety, secure patient data, and
streamline workflows.
The critical core concepts, high-yield practice questions, and correct answers from the 30-question
exam set are broken down below to maximize your test readiness.
Core Areas of Testing
• Data Security & Privacy: Maintaining HIPAA compliance, system security protocols, and
managing digital footprints.
• Safety Integration: System components like Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
and barcode scanning.
• Patient Communication & Literacy: Applying software, patient portals, and telehealth
modalities.
• Professional & Research Knowledge: Informatics roles and the use of technology to
advance evidence-based guidelines.
High-Yield Questions & Answers
Data Security, Privacy, and HIPAA
• Key HIPAA/Security Concepts: Patients must be allowed to review/correct records;
secure EHRs require clear policies, such as guidelines for printing information.
• Violations: Texting patient wound photos and posting patient photos on social media—
even with verbal consent—are breaches of confidentiality.
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, • Unauthorized Access: Searching for information on patients not currently under your
care violates policy.
Quiz_________________?
A
(clinical decision support systems use evidence based practice & clinical guidelines to assist
physicians, nurses & others to make the best practice decisions based on client data) -
ANSWER✅
A new staff member asks a nurse what the abbreviation CDSS means. The correct response
is...
A. Clinical Decision Support System.
B. Clinical Documentation Specific Systems.
C. Communication Documentation Support System.
Quiz_________________?
A
(critical pathways are used by the interdisciplinary team to track a client's progress. the
clinical pathway outlines assessments, interventions, treatments & outcomes for health-
related conditions for a specified period of time) -
ANSWER✅
The purpose of using critical pathways to help manage the care of clients who have specific
clinical problems is to...
A. Improve client outcomes by providing timely interventions.
B. Increase variation of care to each individual client.
C. Control the degree of standardization across populations.
Quiz_________________?
A
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