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p Practice Nurse 2nd Edition McBride Tietze
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Test Bank
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,• Question 1 p
2 out of 2 points
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informatics to the nursing profession, the instructor
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determines that the students need additional teaching when
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they identify which of the following as a benefit?
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pdocumentation
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Use of data for quality control
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pdocumentation
Response Ans: D Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
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pFeedback Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process:
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: Teaching/Learning Objective: 5 Page and Header:
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p 14, Benefits to the Nursing Profession Feedback:
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p Documentation can be improved using informatics, p p p p p
p and when done properly, the time needed for
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p documentation would decrease. In addition, nursing p p p p p
p informatics will not only enhance practice but will p p p p p p p
p also allow information to be available to
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p researchers for building evidence-based nursing p p p p
p knowledge. It can remind users to provide data p p p p p p p
p that might be forgotten. The data could be used for
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p both quality control and research.
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• Question 2 p
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of agency staff, which of the following would the presenter
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pidentify as one of the primary benefits?
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Response Ans: A Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
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pFeedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process:
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p 13, For Healthcare in General Feedback: Although
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p informatics saves time and money and allows p p p p p p
p patterns to be identified from data, one of the
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p primary benefits of informatics is that data that
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p were previously buried in inaccessible records
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p become usable. p
• Question 3 p
2 out of 2 points
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information technology, the instructor would emphasize
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pwhich of the following as the focus?
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pFeedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process:
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: Teaching/Learning Objective: 3 Page and Header: 6,
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p Healthcare Informatics Feedback: The focus of p p p p p
p healthcare informatics is managing information in p p p p p
p healthcare; thus, the focus is on the information p p p p p p p
p (subject), not the computer (tool). Access and data
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p storage, retrieval, capture, and sharing are
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p components of healthcare informatics. p p p
• Question 4 p
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A nursing student is reviewing information about early
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computerized clinical information systems. Which of the
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Answer: Ability to share information among several
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Response Ans: C Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
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: Teaching/Learning Objective: 1 Page and Header:
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p 12, Progression of Information Systems Feedback:
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p Early computerized clinical information systems
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p were process-oriented, implemented to
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p computerize a single process such as billing or lab p p p p p p p p
p reports. Subsequently, different software programs
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p had to be created for different departments that
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p could not share data, creating a need for
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p clinicians