Chapter 26: Data Management and Clinical Informatics
Huber: Leadership & Nursing Care Management, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Nursing informatics includes the:
a. coding and billing of hospital and physician services.
b. management and communication of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing
practice
c. organization and selection of quality medical information.
d. support and troubleshooting of computer software issues.
ANS: B
Nursing informatics is a “specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information
and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information,
knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice” (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2015a, p.
1).
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
2. Management information systems describe a broad scope of activities that includes but is not
limited to the management of: a. decision support systems.
b. merchandise.
c. products.
d. nursing services.
ANS: A
Management information systems (MIS) describe a broad scope of activities that includes but
is not limited to managing: decision support systems, resource and people management
applications, project management, and database retrieval applications.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. Effectiveness research:
a. is the study of relationships among health care problems.
b. provides solutions to serious global health care issues.
c. reflects sound, reliable, and valid data that can be examined closely.
d. supplies data that are critical and worthy of gathering.
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ANS: A
Effectiveness research applies epidemiological methods to large databases to study
relationships among health care problems, interventions, outcomes, and costs, and determine
alternatives and their effects with different patient characteristics and intervening variables.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
4. Which of the following statements best describes a desirable characteristic of a good
management information system?
a. Data should be sorted and labeled within 2 weeks.
b. For accurate interpretation, data should reflect a health bias.
c. Information gathering should be comprehensive and cost-effective.
d. The management information system operating system should be Windows-based.
ANS: C
Ten criteria or desirable characteristics for a good management information system are the
following: (1) informative, (2) relevant, (3) sensitive, (4) unbiased, (5) comprehensive, (6)
timely, (7) action-oriented, (8) uniform, (9) performance-targeted, and (10) cost-effective
(Austin, 1979).
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. Nursing data need to include which of the following domains?
a. Fiduciary data
b. Outcome data
c. Client data
d. Tertiary data
ANS: C
Nursing’s data needs fall in four domains: client care, provider competencies and staffing,
administration of care and sustainability of the organization, and knowledge-based research
for evidence-based practice.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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