INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN NURSING PRACTISE

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN NURSING PRACTISE. 3 types of research used in healthcare - ANSWER-Comparative effectiveness research (CER), health services research (HSR), and outcomes research (OCR) .A key factor in the integration of research into practice - ANSWER-the ability to determine the strength or level of evidence and to critique the quality of the study .Administrative information systems - ANSWER-Systems that support patient care by managing financial and demographic information and providing reporting capabilities .Admission discharge transfer system - ANSWER-Tracks patient activities and location from admission through all transfers within a facility through discharge .Affordable care act - ANSWER-US legislation intended to improve healthcare quality through using information technology, ensuring affordable care, and increasing the number of insured persons. .Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - ANSWER-agency within the department of health and human services devoted to improving healthcare quality and safety. .Alert/ alarm fatigue - ANSWER-Phenomenon that occurs when the volume of alerts, alarms, or warning messages acts contrary to intention through desensitizing the clinician to the indicators and the purpose. .American Nurses Association (ANA) - ANSWER-Professional organization that represents all registered nurses. .American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) - ANSWER-It promotes excellence in nursing and healthcare through credentialing programs and educational materials for nursing specialty-practice areas. .American Recover and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - ANSWER-Authorized INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals and healthcare professionals for adopting and using interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's. ARRA provides economic stimuli and incentives for the adoption of EHRs. .Analytical science - ANSWER-Uses a variety of methods and instruments to answer 2 basic questions: What do I have? How much of it do I have? Environment, pharmacy, safety & security, fraud detection, and healthcare diagnostics. .Analytics - ANSWER-the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data .Anesthesia Information Management Systems - ANSWER-Supports real time anesthetic management of the patient in the operating suite .antivirus software - ANSWER-Set of computer programs capable of finding and eliminating viruses and other malicious programs from scanned disks, computers, and networks .Association for perioperative registered nurses - ANSWER-Professional organization representing perioperative registered nurses .Asynchronous connected health - ANSWER-Healthcare services in a setting other than face to face .Audiovisual monitor - ANSWER-An electronic device for displaying video and audio output from an information source .Audit trail - ANSWER-Electronic tool that can track system access by individual user, by user class, or by all persons who viewed a specific client record .Authentication - ANSWER-Action that verifies the authority of users to receive specified data .Authorization - ANSWER-Action that verifies the authority of users to receive specified data .Automatic sign off - ANSWER-Mechanism that logs a user off the computer after a specific period of inactivity .Back loaded - ANSWER-information that is preloaded into the system before the go live .Bandwidth - ANSWER-Measure of the information carrying capacity of a communication channel .Benchmark - ANSWER-The continual process of measuring services and practices against the toughest competitors in the healthcare industry. Comparing the performance of an organization or clinician to others. .Best of breed - ANSWER-Refers to the best available technology solution for a given purpose .Big data - ANSWER-very large data sets that are analyzed to reveal patterns, trends, and associations .Bioinformartics - ANSWER-applying informatics skills to understand and organize information associated with life at the molecular and genetic levels, inclusive research, taxonomies, and standard terminologies .Bioinformatics - ANSWER-Defined as studying biology by applying informatics skills to understand and organize the information associated with these ,molecule's on a large scale .Biometrics - ANSWER-a unique, measurable characteristic or trait of a human being for automatically recognizing or verifying identity .buisness continuity planning (BCP) - ANSWER-Combines information technology and disaster recovery planning with business functions recovery planning .Business impact assessment or analysis - ANSWER-Process of determining the critical functions for the organization and the information vital to maintain operations, as well as the applications, databases, hardware, and communications facilities that use, house, or support this information .Business intelligence - ANSWER-integration of business data from different sources to optimize its use and understanding in business decisions, data are compromises of strategies and processes, as well as a tool set .Business intelligence - ANSWER-Integration of business data from different sources to optimize its use and understanding in business decisions; data are comprised of strategies and processes, as well as a tool set. .Business intelligence - ANSWER-Refers to a strategy or process by which data from different sources is integrated for the purpose of optimizing its use and understanding its functionality. .Business Intelligence (BI) - ANSWER-refers to the strategy, processes, and tool set that integrates data from different sources for the purpose of optimizing its use and understanding .Business- continuality management - ANSWER-The process to ensure that organizations can withstand any disruption to normal functioning .C Suite - ANSWER-Term used to refer to a corporation's senior executives such as the CEO .CDS - ANSWER-Clinical decision support (CDS) systems provide clinicians, staff, patients, or other individuals with data-driven and patient-specific information at the appropriate time so that decisions can be made appropriately during the clinical workflow. You have been asked to look up information related to CDS systems for your organization to determine their effectiveness. CDS systems are widely used by healthcare organizations for the value they provide specific to the needs of each organization, not necessarily to be aligned with one another. .Certificate authority - ANSWER-The trusted third party that issues digital certificates that certify ownership of a public key .Challenges in finding and using big data in healthcare - ANSWER-Incentives to share data, proprietary issues, lack of appropriate infrastructure, data quality, culture, costs, complexity of healthcare, insufficient expertise, a lack of nursing visibility, and big promises but limited progress. .Change Control Board (CCB) - ANSWER-An organizations entity that handles requests for changes or issues in order to keep project scope manageable as plans to implement HIT move forward .Chief nursing informatics officer - ANSWER-An executive leadership role that represents nursing interests with informatics related practices, policies and issues .Classification system - ANSWER-The approach that uses mutually exclusive categories for specific purposes such as describing the details of a patient encounter for clinical, administrative, or reimbursement issues .Clinical Care classification system (CCC) - ANSWER-Nursing classification designed to document the six steps of the nursing process across the care continuum. Consists of two interconnected terminologies—the CCC of Nursing Diagnosis and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing Interventions. .Clinical data network - ANSWER-Entities developed to support research on patient outcomes rather than the care delivered; are typically comprised of several types of healthcare systems that partner to conduct research. .Clinical Decision Support System - ANSWER-Supports healthcare practitioners in making patient care decisions by integrating patient data with current clinical knowledge .Clinical informatics - ANSWER-delivery of timely, safe, efficient, effective, evidence-based and patient-centered care .Clinical Information Systems - ANSWER-large, computerized database management systems used to access the patient data that are needed to plan, implement, and evaluate care. May also be known as patient care information systems .Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) - ANSWER-Advanced practice nurse prepared at the graduate level to practice in a specialty area who often engages in research, supports direct care nurses, and helps drive practice changes .clinical research informatics - ANSWER-Application of informatics to methods supporting clinical and translational research, particularly knowledge discovery and secondary use of data .Clinical research informatics - ANSWER-Concentrates on discovery and management of new knowledge pertinent to health and disease from clinical trials and via secondary data use .Clinical terminology - ANSWER-Concepts that support clinical constructs, such as diagnostic studies, history and physical exams, visit notes, ancillary department information, nursing notes, assessments, flow sheets, vital signs, and outcome measures. This can be mapped to a broader classification system for administrative, regulatory, and fiscal reporting requirements .Closed source - ANSWER-Software owned by a vendor and for which a customer pays a fee to use but does not own .Cloud computing - ANSWER-Internet-based on demand model of computing that relies upon shared resources; this model providers a higher level service than may be available locally with less investment of resources .Codes - ANSWER-Letters, numbers, or a combination therof, that represents concepts in a computer system .Codified - ANSWER-a concept with an assigned code .Cognitive walkthrough - ANSWER-the usability assessment method is a detailed review of a sequence .Communication plan - ANSWER-Tool used in phase two of project management that shows how each upper leadership shareholder and team member will receive communication and updates on the project status and issues. .Computer forensics - ANSWER-Collection of electronic evidence for purposes of litigation and internal investigations .computer literacy - ANSWER-Familiarity with the use of computers, including software tools such as word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics and emails .Computerized provider (or practitioner) order system - ANSWER-An application that supports direct electronic entry of patient care-related orders by authorized practitioners and direct transmission of those orders to designated entities .Concept - ANSWER-Expression with a single unambiguous meaning, although is may have one or more representations called synonyms or terms. Used to document ideas and express orders, assessments and outcomes with an EHR, they are uniquely identified by codes .Confidentiality - ANSWER-Tacit understanding that private information shared in a situation in which a relationship has been established for the purpose of treatment or delivery of services will remain protected .configurability - ANSWER-Refers to the extent that a given software product can be adapted or changed to meet a user's preference. .Configurability - ANSWER-Refers to the extent that a given software product can be adapted or changed to meet a users preferences .Connected health - ANSWER-Model or platform by which technology-assisted healthcare is delivered between at least two points, involving either synchronous assessment or asynchronous exchange .Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) - ANSWER-Allows interoperability of health information exchange between hospital systems.