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After teaching a group of students about the benefits of
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informatics to the nursing profession, the instructor
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determines that the students need additional teaching when t
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hey identify which of the following as a benefit?
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Feedback: Documentation can be improved using in
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formatics, and when done properly, the time needed
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for documentation would decrease. In addition, nurs
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ing informatics will not only enhance practice but wil
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l also allow information to be available to researc
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hers for building evidence-
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based nursing knowledge. It can remind users to pr
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e used for both quality control and research.
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• Question 2 m
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When describing the benefits of informatics to a group of
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magency staff, which of the following would the presenter i
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dentify as one of the primary benefits?
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k: Although informatics saves time and money and a
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llows patterns to be identified from data, one of the
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primary benefits of informatics is that data that we
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re previously buried in inaccessible records become
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The focus of healthcare informatics is managing infor
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mation in healthcare; thus, the focus is on the infor
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mation (subject), not the computer (tool). Access an
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d data storage, retrieval, capture, and sharing are co
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mputerized clinical information systems. Which of the foll
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ms Feedback: Early computerized clinical informati
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on systems were process-
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cess such as billing or lab reports. Subsequently, diff
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erent software programs had to be created for differ
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ent departments that could not share data, creating
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