c790 Nursing Informatics (WGU) Standard Taxonomy exam retake questions and correct answers graded A+

Workflow - Answer-"a modular sequence of tasks, with a distinct beginning and end, performed for the specific purpose of delivering clinical care" Workflows are specified at up to four levels of detail: 1) clinical workflow, 2) phase, 3) task & action, and 4) sub -action. patient-centric workflows - Answer-occur when the patient is onsite and interacts with the staff and clinicians. Patient centric workflows begin when the patient enters the office or ward and ends when the patient leaves or is discharged. message--centric workflows - Answer-include care activities that occur when the patient is not present; they typically begin with a message, may continue over an extended period of time, and end when the message is considered handled. population management workflows - Answer-focus on prevention and care management activities that involve proactive review and outreach to a defined population or to individuals within that population. phase - Answer-Phase: corresponds to the physical location of the patient; used only if the patient changes location during a workflow task & action - Answer-A task is an activity that is relatively short and constitutes a discrete step in the care process. For example, 'measure and record vital signs' is considered a task.• In this taxonomy, action s are used to relate tasks to a more general typology of clinical activities. For example, 'document' is the action associated with 'measure and record vital signs'. Actions were based on the information available in the National Quality Forum's "Health IT Assessment Framework for Measurement: A Consensus sub-action - Answer-specific activities that constitute or comprise an action. Continuing the example above, 'Document weight' is a sub -action of 'measure & record vital signs'. The NQF Framework for Measurement was also used to inform the subactions CDS repositories - Answer-create tags based on the taxonomy to enable workflow-related organization and searches