Chamberlain NR599 Nursing Informatics – Final Exam:
Questions With Solutions
Clinical Decision Support Systems Right Ans - Process designed to aid
directly in clinical decision making, in which characteristics of individual
patients are used to generate patient specific interventions, assessments,
recommendations, or other forms of guidance that are then presented to a
decision-making recipient or recipients that can include clinicians, patients, or
others involved in care delivery.
Clinical Decision Support Systems: Benefits and Challenges Right Ans -
Benefits:
- patient safety
- clinical management
- diagnostics support
- administrator function/automation
- patient decision support
Challenges:
- alert fatigue
- cost
- system and content maintenance challenges
- user distrust
- transportability/interoperability
- dependency on computer literacy
Patient-Centered Information Systems Right Ans - - Focused on collecting
data and disseminating information related to direct care.
- Example: Clinical Documentation Systems ("Clinical Information Systems").
- Designed to collect patient data in real time.
- Enhances care by putting data at the clinician's fingertips and enabling
decision making.
Clinical Support Tools Right Ans - The primary goal of implementing a CDS
tool is to leverage data and the scientific evidence to help guide appropriate
decision making.
, Examples of Clinical Support Tools Right Ans - - Computerized alerts and
reminders for providers and patients
- Drug-drug interaction alerts
- Underdose or overdose alerts based on renal or liver function or age or drug
levels
- Actionable clinical guidelines
- Condition-specific order sets
- Focused patient data reports and summaries
- Diagnostic support
- Contextually relevant reference information
Workflow Right Ans - - The action of execution of a series of tasks in a
prescribed sequence.
- A progression of steps (tasks, events, interactions) that constitute a work
process, involve two or more persons, and create or add value to the
organization's activities.
Workflow Analysis Right Ans - The observation and documentation of
workflow to better understand what is happening in the current environment
and how it can be altered.
Data Mining Right Ans - A method in computer science that is used to
discover patterns and trends within large data sets.
Point-of-Care (POC) Technology Right Ans - - Allows for testing and
diagnosis at the patient's side and can be conducted anywhere the patient is,
such as the home, physician office, ambulance, or hospital bedside.
- Allows for quick, on-the-spot testing with immediately available results
Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Biologic devices Right Ans - Examples:
vaccines, blood or blood components, gene therapy, allergenics
Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Biometric devices Right Ans - - Based on
technology that can identify a person using their unique facial characteristics,
fingerprints, DNA, or iris/retinal pattern.
- Example: fingerprint scanner
Questions With Solutions
Clinical Decision Support Systems Right Ans - Process designed to aid
directly in clinical decision making, in which characteristics of individual
patients are used to generate patient specific interventions, assessments,
recommendations, or other forms of guidance that are then presented to a
decision-making recipient or recipients that can include clinicians, patients, or
others involved in care delivery.
Clinical Decision Support Systems: Benefits and Challenges Right Ans -
Benefits:
- patient safety
- clinical management
- diagnostics support
- administrator function/automation
- patient decision support
Challenges:
- alert fatigue
- cost
- system and content maintenance challenges
- user distrust
- transportability/interoperability
- dependency on computer literacy
Patient-Centered Information Systems Right Ans - - Focused on collecting
data and disseminating information related to direct care.
- Example: Clinical Documentation Systems ("Clinical Information Systems").
- Designed to collect patient data in real time.
- Enhances care by putting data at the clinician's fingertips and enabling
decision making.
Clinical Support Tools Right Ans - The primary goal of implementing a CDS
tool is to leverage data and the scientific evidence to help guide appropriate
decision making.
, Examples of Clinical Support Tools Right Ans - - Computerized alerts and
reminders for providers and patients
- Drug-drug interaction alerts
- Underdose or overdose alerts based on renal or liver function or age or drug
levels
- Actionable clinical guidelines
- Condition-specific order sets
- Focused patient data reports and summaries
- Diagnostic support
- Contextually relevant reference information
Workflow Right Ans - - The action of execution of a series of tasks in a
prescribed sequence.
- A progression of steps (tasks, events, interactions) that constitute a work
process, involve two or more persons, and create or add value to the
organization's activities.
Workflow Analysis Right Ans - The observation and documentation of
workflow to better understand what is happening in the current environment
and how it can be altered.
Data Mining Right Ans - A method in computer science that is used to
discover patterns and trends within large data sets.
Point-of-Care (POC) Technology Right Ans - - Allows for testing and
diagnosis at the patient's side and can be conducted anywhere the patient is,
such as the home, physician office, ambulance, or hospital bedside.
- Allows for quick, on-the-spot testing with immediately available results
Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Biologic devices Right Ans - Examples:
vaccines, blood or blood components, gene therapy, allergenics
Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Biometric devices Right Ans - - Based on
technology that can identify a person using their unique facial characteristics,
fingerprints, DNA, or iris/retinal pattern.
- Example: fingerprint scanner
