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NR 599 — NURSING INFORMATICS FOR ADVANCED
PRACTICE
PRACTICE EXAM 02 | 100 MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Instructions: Select the single best answer for each question. These are original practice questions for study and
review, not an official course examination.
EXAM CONTENT AREAS
Privacy and Security • Quality Improvement • Patient Engagement • Interoperability • Data Management • Ethics and Law • Documentation •
Patient Safety • Data Quality • Informatics Roles • Equity and Access • Security and Governance • Terminologies and Standards •
Socio-Technical Systems • Access Control • Data and Information • Implementation • AI and Ethics • Evaluation • Remote Monitoring •
Governance • Cybersecurity • Standards • Telehealth • Project Management • Clinical Decision Support • Human Factors • Communication •
Mobile Health • Medication Safety • Research and Data Ethics • Professional Development • Research and Evaluation • Training • Analytics and
Reporting • Change Management • Digital Health Literacy • Accessibility • Professionalism • Business Continuity
QUESTIONS
1. What is the purpose of data suppression in reporting?
A. Make results more precise
B. Replace consent in all cases
C. Improve network speed
D. Reduce disclosure risk when small groups could be identifiable
Correct answer: D. Reduce disclosure risk when small groups could be identifiable
2. What is benchmarking?
A. Comparing performance with a reference standard or other comparable organizations
B. Changing a patient's chart
C. Testing password length
D. Deleting poor results
Correct answer: A. Comparing performance with a reference standard or other comparable organizations
3. What is health literacy?
A. The ability to find, understand, and use health information to make decisions
B. The ability to code software
C. A measure of internet speed
D. A synonym for medical licensing
Correct answer: A. The ability to find, understand, and use health information to make decisions
4. What is a semantic mapping error?
A. A printer jam
B. A code mapping that incorrectly equates concepts with different meanings
C. A missing password
D. A slow internet connection
Correct answer: B. A code mapping that incorrectly equates concepts with different meanings
5. What is data lineage?
A. A staff reporting hierarchy
B. The path data take through systems and transformations
C. The patient's family tree only
D. A type of password reset
Correct answer: B. The path data take through systems and transformations
6. When is patient consent especially important for digital health data use?
A. Only when a computer is broken
B. When required by law, policy, or the specific secondary use and context
C. Never, because data are digital
D. Only for paper records
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Correct answer: B. When required by law, policy, or the specific secondary use and context
7. What is the difference between privacy and security?
A. Security applies only to passwords
B. Privacy applies only to paper
C. They are always identical concepts
D. Privacy concerns appropriate access/use; security safeguards data and systems
Correct answer: D. Privacy concerns appropriate access/use; security safeguards data and systems
8. What is a balancing measure in quality improvement?
A. A measure that checks whether an improvement causes unintended problems elsewhere
B. A financial statement
C. A second copy of the same metric
D. A mandatory diagnosis code
Correct answer: A. A measure that checks whether an improvement causes unintended problems elsewhere
9. What is a patient-generated health data example?
A. A server log
B. A nurse's annual leave request
C. A hospital payroll record
D. Home blood pressure readings entered by the patient
Correct answer: D. Home blood pressure readings entered by the patient
10. What should a nurse do if an EHR entry was made in error?
A. Use another person's login to change it
B. Follow policy for correction/addendum while preserving the audit trail
C. Ignore it in all circumstances
D. Erase the record without trace
Correct answer: B. Follow policy for correction/addendum while preserving the audit trail
11. What is the purpose of a clinical incident reporting system?
A. Replace disclosure policies
B. Publicly shame staff
C. Guarantee that errors never occur
D. Support learning and risk reduction through reporting and analysis
Correct answer: D. Support learning and risk reduction through reporting and analysis
12. What does data timeliness mean?
A. Data are encrypted
B. Every value is identical across systems
C. Information is available and current enough for its intended use
D. All fields are mandatory
Correct answer: C. Information is available and current enough for its intended use
13. Which competency is important for advanced practice nurses using informatics?
A. Critically evaluate data, technology, evidence, and implications for patient care
B. Accept every report without checking
C. Use only paper records
D. Avoid privacy rules
Correct answer: A. Critically evaluate data, technology, evidence, and implications for patient care
14. What is the digital divide in healthcare?
A. A database normalization rule
B. A break in a computer screen
C. A type of firewall
D. Unequal access to or ability to use digital technologies and services
Correct answer: D. Unequal access to or ability to use digital technologies and services
15. Why must units be standardized or clearly recorded?
A. Units never matter in clinical data
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NR 599 — NURSING INFORMATICS FOR ADVANCED
PRACTICE
PRACTICE EXAM 02 | 100 MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Instructions: Select the single best answer for each question. These are original practice questions for study and
review, not an official course examination.
EXAM CONTENT AREAS
Privacy and Security • Quality Improvement • Patient Engagement • Interoperability • Data Management • Ethics and Law • Documentation •
Patient Safety • Data Quality • Informatics Roles • Equity and Access • Security and Governance • Terminologies and Standards •
Socio-Technical Systems • Access Control • Data and Information • Implementation • AI and Ethics • Evaluation • Remote Monitoring •
Governance • Cybersecurity • Standards • Telehealth • Project Management • Clinical Decision Support • Human Factors • Communication •
Mobile Health • Medication Safety • Research and Data Ethics • Professional Development • Research and Evaluation • Training • Analytics and
Reporting • Change Management • Digital Health Literacy • Accessibility • Professionalism • Business Continuity
QUESTIONS
1. What is the purpose of data suppression in reporting?
A. Make results more precise
B. Replace consent in all cases
C. Improve network speed
D. Reduce disclosure risk when small groups could be identifiable
Correct answer: D. Reduce disclosure risk when small groups could be identifiable
2. What is benchmarking?
A. Comparing performance with a reference standard or other comparable organizations
B. Changing a patient's chart
C. Testing password length
D. Deleting poor results
Correct answer: A. Comparing performance with a reference standard or other comparable organizations
3. What is health literacy?
A. The ability to find, understand, and use health information to make decisions
B. The ability to code software
C. A measure of internet speed
D. A synonym for medical licensing
Correct answer: A. The ability to find, understand, and use health information to make decisions
4. What is a semantic mapping error?
A. A printer jam
B. A code mapping that incorrectly equates concepts with different meanings
C. A missing password
D. A slow internet connection
Correct answer: B. A code mapping that incorrectly equates concepts with different meanings
5. What is data lineage?
A. A staff reporting hierarchy
B. The path data take through systems and transformations
C. The patient's family tree only
D. A type of password reset
Correct answer: B. The path data take through systems and transformations
6. When is patient consent especially important for digital health data use?
A. Only when a computer is broken
B. When required by law, policy, or the specific secondary use and context
C. Never, because data are digital
D. Only for paper records
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Correct answer: B. When required by law, policy, or the specific secondary use and context
7. What is the difference between privacy and security?
A. Security applies only to passwords
B. Privacy applies only to paper
C. They are always identical concepts
D. Privacy concerns appropriate access/use; security safeguards data and systems
Correct answer: D. Privacy concerns appropriate access/use; security safeguards data and systems
8. What is a balancing measure in quality improvement?
A. A measure that checks whether an improvement causes unintended problems elsewhere
B. A financial statement
C. A second copy of the same metric
D. A mandatory diagnosis code
Correct answer: A. A measure that checks whether an improvement causes unintended problems elsewhere
9. What is a patient-generated health data example?
A. A server log
B. A nurse's annual leave request
C. A hospital payroll record
D. Home blood pressure readings entered by the patient
Correct answer: D. Home blood pressure readings entered by the patient
10. What should a nurse do if an EHR entry was made in error?
A. Use another person's login to change it
B. Follow policy for correction/addendum while preserving the audit trail
C. Ignore it in all circumstances
D. Erase the record without trace
Correct answer: B. Follow policy for correction/addendum while preserving the audit trail
11. What is the purpose of a clinical incident reporting system?
A. Replace disclosure policies
B. Publicly shame staff
C. Guarantee that errors never occur
D. Support learning and risk reduction through reporting and analysis
Correct answer: D. Support learning and risk reduction through reporting and analysis
12. What does data timeliness mean?
A. Data are encrypted
B. Every value is identical across systems
C. Information is available and current enough for its intended use
D. All fields are mandatory
Correct answer: C. Information is available and current enough for its intended use
13. Which competency is important for advanced practice nurses using informatics?
A. Critically evaluate data, technology, evidence, and implications for patient care
B. Accept every report without checking
C. Use only paper records
D. Avoid privacy rules
Correct answer: A. Critically evaluate data, technology, evidence, and implications for patient care
14. What is the digital divide in healthcare?
A. A database normalization rule
B. A break in a computer screen
C. A type of firewall
D. Unequal access to or ability to use digital technologies and services
Correct answer: D. Unequal access to or ability to use digital technologies and services
15. Why must units be standardized or clearly recorded?
A. Units never matter in clinical data
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