NURS 5355 CLINICAL PRACTICE 2, MODULE 1, NP UTA EXAM QUESTONS AND
ANSWERS
What is informatics? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Accounts for developing, designing, adopting, and
applying technologies in health care to improve delivery of service and improve quality and safety of
care.
What is the role of informatics in healthcare? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅To improve delivery, quality, and
safety of services
How effective are EHRs? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅EHRs are a standard part of nursing and medical care.
There are pros and unintended consequences of EHR use in health care: Dramatic savings, shared
knowledge, patient participation, the impersonalization of care, improve coordination, and improve
outcomes.
How does the EHR impact the quality and safety of care? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅By reducing medical
errors. Using a system approach.
Analyze the role of EMR in reducing errors and improving patient outcomes. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅EHRs improve risk management by:
1. Providing clinical alerts and reminders
2. Improving aggregation, analysis, and communication of patient information
3. making it easier to consider all aspects of a patient's condition
4. Supporting diagnostic and therapeutic decision making
5. Gathering all relevant information in one place
6. Support for therapeutic decisions
7. enabling EB decisions at point of care
8. Preventing adverse events
9. Providing built-in safeguard against prescribing treatments that would result in adverse events
10. Enhancing research and monitoring for improvements in clinical quality.
ANSWERS
What is informatics? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Accounts for developing, designing, adopting, and
applying technologies in health care to improve delivery of service and improve quality and safety of
care.
What is the role of informatics in healthcare? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅To improve delivery, quality, and
safety of services
How effective are EHRs? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅EHRs are a standard part of nursing and medical care.
There are pros and unintended consequences of EHR use in health care: Dramatic savings, shared
knowledge, patient participation, the impersonalization of care, improve coordination, and improve
outcomes.
How does the EHR impact the quality and safety of care? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅By reducing medical
errors. Using a system approach.
Analyze the role of EMR in reducing errors and improving patient outcomes. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅EHRs improve risk management by:
1. Providing clinical alerts and reminders
2. Improving aggregation, analysis, and communication of patient information
3. making it easier to consider all aspects of a patient's condition
4. Supporting diagnostic and therapeutic decision making
5. Gathering all relevant information in one place
6. Support for therapeutic decisions
7. enabling EB decisions at point of care
8. Preventing adverse events
9. Providing built-in safeguard against prescribing treatments that would result in adverse events
10. Enhancing research and monitoring for improvements in clinical quality.
