NR 599 MIDTERM EXAM Practice Questions
and Answers 2026 | Updated Revision Pack
| Grade A+
• General principles of nursing informatics -✓✓a specialty that
combines nursing science, computer science, cognitive science, and
information science that allows for management and communication of
data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
• Knowledge -✓✓awareness and understanding of information and
ways information can be made useful
• wisdom -✓✓valuable and viable knowledge applied
• Foundation of knowledge model -✓✓Humans are organic
information systems; acquiring, processing, generating, and
disseminating information/knowledge.
• computer science -✓✓Study of storage and memory, conversion,
transformation, and transfer or transmission information in machines
(computers).
• Cognitive science -✓✓field of study that examines how humans and
other animals acquire, process, store, and retrieve information. studies
, the mind, intelligence, and behavior from an information processing
perspective.
• information science -✓✓Focus on how to gather, process and
transform information into knowledge. It also incorporates features
from 5 other sciences
-communication science
-computer science
-social science
-library science
-cognitive science
• Standard terminology -✓✓terminology approved by appropriate
authority such as ANA.
Data set: named collection of data
Nomenclature: system of rules and procedures for adding names to art
of science (nursing)
Classification: systems hat capture categories (i.e. cost/outcome)
insufficient for clinical documentation.
and Answers 2026 | Updated Revision Pack
| Grade A+
• General principles of nursing informatics -✓✓a specialty that
combines nursing science, computer science, cognitive science, and
information science that allows for management and communication of
data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
• Knowledge -✓✓awareness and understanding of information and
ways information can be made useful
• wisdom -✓✓valuable and viable knowledge applied
• Foundation of knowledge model -✓✓Humans are organic
information systems; acquiring, processing, generating, and
disseminating information/knowledge.
• computer science -✓✓Study of storage and memory, conversion,
transformation, and transfer or transmission information in machines
(computers).
• Cognitive science -✓✓field of study that examines how humans and
other animals acquire, process, store, and retrieve information. studies
, the mind, intelligence, and behavior from an information processing
perspective.
• information science -✓✓Focus on how to gather, process and
transform information into knowledge. It also incorporates features
from 5 other sciences
-communication science
-computer science
-social science
-library science
-cognitive science
• Standard terminology -✓✓terminology approved by appropriate
authority such as ANA.
Data set: named collection of data
Nomenclature: system of rules and procedures for adding names to art
of science (nursing)
Classification: systems hat capture categories (i.e. cost/outcome)
insufficient for clinical documentation.
