Chamberlain NR599 Nursing
Informatics- Final EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
/. Clinical Decision Support Systems - Answer-✅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 - Answer-✅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 - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅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 - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅The observation and documentation of workflow to
better understand what is happening in the current environment and how it can be
altered.
/.Data Mining - Answer-✅A method in computer science that is used to discover
patterns and trends within large data sets.
/.Point-of-Care (POC) Technology - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅Examples: vaccines,
blood or blood components, gene therapy, allergenics
/.Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Biometric devices - Answer-✅- Based on
technology that can identify a person using their unique facial characteristics,
fingerprints, DNA, or iris/retinal pattern.
- Example: fingerprint scanner
/.Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Haptic devices - Answer-✅- Transmit tactile
information using sensations such a vibration, touch, and force feedback.
- Example: ultrasound?
/.Risk Mitigation - Answer-✅- A strategy to prepare for and lessen the effects of threats
faced by a business.
- The overall process of identifying, assessing, and controlling risk within a company or
organization.
/.Bioethics - Answer-✅- The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care.
- Takes on relevant ethical problems experienced by healthcare providers in the
provision of care to individuals and groups.
/.Fundamental Background of Bioethics - Answer-✅- The nature and needs of humans
as living, thinking beings
- The purpose and function of the healthcare system in a human society
- An increased cultural awareness of human beings' essential moral status
Informatics- Final EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
/. Clinical Decision Support Systems - Answer-✅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 - Answer-✅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 - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅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 - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅The observation and documentation of workflow to
better understand what is happening in the current environment and how it can be
altered.
/.Data Mining - Answer-✅A method in computer science that is used to discover
patterns and trends within large data sets.
/.Point-of-Care (POC) Technology - Answer-✅- 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 - Answer-✅Examples: vaccines,
blood or blood components, gene therapy, allergenics
/.Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Biometric devices - Answer-✅- Based on
technology that can identify a person using their unique facial characteristics,
fingerprints, DNA, or iris/retinal pattern.
- Example: fingerprint scanner
/.Point-of-Care (POC) Technology- Haptic devices - Answer-✅- Transmit tactile
information using sensations such a vibration, touch, and force feedback.
- Example: ultrasound?
/.Risk Mitigation - Answer-✅- A strategy to prepare for and lessen the effects of threats
faced by a business.
- The overall process of identifying, assessing, and controlling risk within a company or
organization.
/.Bioethics - Answer-✅- The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care.
- Takes on relevant ethical problems experienced by healthcare providers in the
provision of care to individuals and groups.
/.Fundamental Background of Bioethics - Answer-✅- The nature and needs of humans
as living, thinking beings
- The purpose and function of the healthcare system in a human society
- An increased cultural awareness of human beings' essential moral status
