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, Informatics and Nursing Opportunities and
Challenges 6th Edition Sewell Test Bank
1. After teaching a class about informatics, the instructor determines that the teaching
was successful when the students define informatics as which of the following?
A) Use of computers
C) Management of information
D) Access to the Internet
2. A strategic plan for the nationwide implementation of health information
technology includes which of the following?
A) Discouraging the use of personal electronic health records
C) Advocating for statewide adoption of electronic health record
D) Limiting the use of telehealth systems
3. Which of the following would a nurse identify as the current focus of today's
practice informatics?
B) Performing secondary data analysis
C) Using aggregated data
D) Making decisions based on data
4. A nursing student is reviewing information about early computerized
clinical information systems. Which of the following would the student
identify as characteristic?
A) Implementation to perform two or three functions
B) Ability to share information among several departments
D) Entry of data occurring only once
5. When describing the benefits of informatics to a group of agency staff, which of
the following would the presenter identify as one of the primary benefits?
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,B) Promote cost-saving
C) Promote time-saving
D) Allow identification of patterns
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, 6. After teaching a group of students about the benefits of informatics to the nursing
profession, the instructor determines that the students need additional teaching
when they identify which of the following as a benefit?
A) Improvement in documentation
B) Use of data for quality control
C) Building of evidence-based knowledge
7. A nurse is presenting an in-service program on nursing informatics competencies.
When describing the need for computer fluency for nursing informatics competencies,
which of the following would the presenter include as characterizing this concept?
A) Temporary state
C) Task oriented
D) Competency
8. After teaching a class for a group of nurses on nursing informatics, the instructor
determines that the teaching was successful when the group identifies which of
the following competencies as specific to the role of an informatics innovator?
A) Using basic desktop software
C) Making judgments about trends
D) Communicating via a computer
9. An informatics nurse specialist would describe information literacy as essential
for which of the following?
A) Critical thinking
B) Problem solving
C) Data evaluation
10. When preparing for a class on healthcare informatics and information technology,
the instructor would emphasize which of the following as the focus?
B) Computer
C) Access
D) Data storage
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