WGU D220 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Answer: Produced evidence making healthcare safer, improve quality,
accessibility and affordability
●● Asynchoronous Applications
Answer: No contact with patient for data collection. EX: Remote pt
monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data
w/ providers. STORE & FORWARD APPS (ex: photos)
●● Administrative Information System
Answer: can include registration and scheduling; tracking through
admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling;
financial or accounting systems; risk management; payroll and human
resources; quality assurance; and contract management functions.
●● Affordable Care Act
Answer: law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost
reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and
introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights, increasing the number of insured
persons.
,●● Alarm Fatique
Answer: Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or
delaying their response to the alarm.
●● ANA (American Nurses Association)
Answer: Professional organization for all RNs. Concerned with
licensure, collective bargaining and education
●● Analytics
Answer: A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and
quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based
management to drive decisions and actions.
●● Audit trail
Answer: a report that traces who has accessed electronic information,
when information was accessed, and whether any information was
changed
●● Authentication
Answer: A method for confirming users' identities
●● Authorization
,Answer: The process of giving someone permission to do or have
something
●● Barcode Scanning Technology
Answer: Scans drug and patients wristband to verify medication order,
inventory control, + pt identification, correct med admin
●● Big Data
Answer: a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured
and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed without the use of
information technology
●● Bioinformatics
Answer: application of mathematics and computer science to store,
retrieve, and analyze biological data
●● Biometrics
Answer: the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic,
such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
●● Business Continuity Plan
Answer: A plan for how an organization will recover and restore
partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a
predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption
, ●● Business Intelligence
Answer: Information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers,
customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns,
trends, and relationships for strategic decision making
●● Change Control Board (CCB)
Answer: A committee that evaluates the worthiness of a proposed
change and either approves or rejects the proposed change.
●● Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
Answer: The senior manager (usually a registered nurse with advanced
education and extensive experience) responsible for administering
patient care services
●● Clinical Care Classification (CCC)
Answer: "Two interrelated taxonomies, the CCC of Nursing Diagnoses
and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing Interventions and Actions, that
provide a standardized framework for documenting patient care in
hospitals, home health agencies, ambulatory care clinics, and other
healthcare settings"
●● CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry)
Answer: An order entry and decision support system that allows direct
entry of orders and immediately shared w/ others
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Answer: Produced evidence making healthcare safer, improve quality,
accessibility and affordability
●● Asynchoronous Applications
Answer: No contact with patient for data collection. EX: Remote pt
monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data
w/ providers. STORE & FORWARD APPS (ex: photos)
●● Administrative Information System
Answer: can include registration and scheduling; tracking through
admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling;
financial or accounting systems; risk management; payroll and human
resources; quality assurance; and contract management functions.
●● Affordable Care Act
Answer: law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost
reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and
introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights, increasing the number of insured
persons.
,●● Alarm Fatique
Answer: Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or
delaying their response to the alarm.
●● ANA (American Nurses Association)
Answer: Professional organization for all RNs. Concerned with
licensure, collective bargaining and education
●● Analytics
Answer: A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and
quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based
management to drive decisions and actions.
●● Audit trail
Answer: a report that traces who has accessed electronic information,
when information was accessed, and whether any information was
changed
●● Authentication
Answer: A method for confirming users' identities
●● Authorization
,Answer: The process of giving someone permission to do or have
something
●● Barcode Scanning Technology
Answer: Scans drug and patients wristband to verify medication order,
inventory control, + pt identification, correct med admin
●● Big Data
Answer: a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured
and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed without the use of
information technology
●● Bioinformatics
Answer: application of mathematics and computer science to store,
retrieve, and analyze biological data
●● Biometrics
Answer: the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic,
such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
●● Business Continuity Plan
Answer: A plan for how an organization will recover and restore
partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a
predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption
, ●● Business Intelligence
Answer: Information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers,
customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns,
trends, and relationships for strategic decision making
●● Change Control Board (CCB)
Answer: A committee that evaluates the worthiness of a proposed
change and either approves or rejects the proposed change.
●● Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
Answer: The senior manager (usually a registered nurse with advanced
education and extensive experience) responsible for administering
patient care services
●● Clinical Care Classification (CCC)
Answer: "Two interrelated taxonomies, the CCC of Nursing Diagnoses
and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing Interventions and Actions, that
provide a standardized framework for documenting patient care in
hospitals, home health agencies, ambulatory care clinics, and other
healthcare settings"
●● CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry)
Answer: An order entry and decision support system that allows direct
entry of orders and immediately shared w/ others
