Nursing Informatics Midterm Exam with verified answers
2026/2027 version
What are the three sciences that nursing informatics utilized in the definition?- correct
answer>>>Nursing science, computer science, and information science
Nursing informatics focuses in what four concepts?- correct answer>>>Data,
information, knowledge, and wisdom
What are raw facts that lack meaning?- correct answer>>>Data
What are the modules of CDSS?- correct answer>>>Reminders, alerts, drug/drug,
drug/allergy checking, guidelines and protocols, image recognition, and interpretation
What filed attempts to capture the complex process of the human thought and
intelligence?- correct answer>>>Artificial intelligence
What is the longitudinal electronic record of patient health information produced by
encounters in one or more care settings?- correct answer>>>EHR - electronic medical
record
What are at least two economic benefits of telehealth?- correct answer>>>Decrease ER
visits, decrease length of stay, decrease admission, decrease travel costs, increase in
productivity of clinicians
What is the definition of nursing terminologies?- correct answer>>>A systematic
standardized way of describing nursing practice and includes data sets, taxonomies,
nomenclatures and classification
The number one focus of EHR as stated by the IOM?- correct answer>>>Patient safety
What are the components of the metaparadigm of nursing?- correct answer>>>Nurse,
patient, health, environment
Who are the consumers of telehealth technology?- correct answer>>>Chronically ill,
isolated, concerned families and assisted living patients
What group of providers are impacted the most by CPOE?- correct answer>>>Doctors
A DSS or CDSS should support, not replace what of a clinician or manager?- correct
answer>>>Judgement and critical thinking
What are 3 peripheral devices used in telehealth?- correct answer>>>Scale, BP
monitor, pulse oximeter, thermometer, glucometer, EKG or heart monitor, PTT/INR
meter, camera
2026/2027 version
What are the three sciences that nursing informatics utilized in the definition?- correct
answer>>>Nursing science, computer science, and information science
Nursing informatics focuses in what four concepts?- correct answer>>>Data,
information, knowledge, and wisdom
What are raw facts that lack meaning?- correct answer>>>Data
What are the modules of CDSS?- correct answer>>>Reminders, alerts, drug/drug,
drug/allergy checking, guidelines and protocols, image recognition, and interpretation
What filed attempts to capture the complex process of the human thought and
intelligence?- correct answer>>>Artificial intelligence
What is the longitudinal electronic record of patient health information produced by
encounters in one or more care settings?- correct answer>>>EHR - electronic medical
record
What are at least two economic benefits of telehealth?- correct answer>>>Decrease ER
visits, decrease length of stay, decrease admission, decrease travel costs, increase in
productivity of clinicians
What is the definition of nursing terminologies?- correct answer>>>A systematic
standardized way of describing nursing practice and includes data sets, taxonomies,
nomenclatures and classification
The number one focus of EHR as stated by the IOM?- correct answer>>>Patient safety
What are the components of the metaparadigm of nursing?- correct answer>>>Nurse,
patient, health, environment
Who are the consumers of telehealth technology?- correct answer>>>Chronically ill,
isolated, concerned families and assisted living patients
What group of providers are impacted the most by CPOE?- correct answer>>>Doctors
A DSS or CDSS should support, not replace what of a clinician or manager?- correct
answer>>>Judgement and critical thinking
What are 3 peripheral devices used in telehealth?- correct answer>>>Scale, BP
monitor, pulse oximeter, thermometer, glucometer, EKG or heart monitor, PTT/INR
meter, camera
