Test Bank for Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice by the American Nurses Association (ANA) | Comprehensive, Research-Based & 2025 Version

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Table of Contents (3rd Edition)

1. Introduction
2. The Scope of Nursing Informatics Practice
o Value Statements
3. Metastructures, Concepts, and Tools of Nursing Informatics
o Metastructures
o Concepts and Tools from Information Science and Computer Science
4. Professional Practice Areas
o Management, Administration and Leadership
o Clinical Informatics
o Data Management and Analytics
o Patient Safety and Quality
o Research and Evaluation
o Compliance and Integrity Management
o Coordination, Consultation, Facilitation, and Integration
5. Evolution of Nursing Informatics Competencies
o Informatics Competencies Requisite for All Registered Nurses
o Research About Nursing Informatics Competencies
6. Preparation and Certification for Nursing Informatics Specialty Practice
o Certification of Informatics Nurses
7. An Advancing Professional Nursing Specialty
8. Ethics in Nursing Informatics
9. The Innovative Future of Nursing Informatics
o Evolving Roles and Responsibilities of Informatics Nurses
o Increasing Informatics Competency Requirements for the Nursing Profession
o Applying Rapidly Evolving Technological Advances to Nursing and Health Care
o New and Emerging Federal Regulations and Foci to Support the Delivery of
Quality Care
10. Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice
o Standards of Practice
 Standard 1. Assessment
 Standard 2. Diagnosis, Problems, and Issues Identification
 Standard 3. Outcomes Identification
 Standard 4. Planning
 Standard 5. Implementation
 Standard 5a. Coordination of Activities
 Standard 5b. Health Teaching and Health Promotion
 Standard 6. Evaluation
o Standards of Professional Performance for Nursing Informatics
 Standard 7. Ethics
 Standard 8. Culturally Congruent Practice
 Standard 9. Communication
 Standard 10. Collaboration
 Standard 11. Leadership
 Standard 12. Education

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 Standard 13. Evidence-Based Practice and Research
 Standard 14. Quality of Practice
 Standard 15. Professional Practice Evaluation
 Standard 16. Resource Utilization
 Standard 17. Environmental Health

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Chapter 1: Introduction


Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1:
A nurse educator is explaining the definition of Nursing Informatics (NI). Which
of the following best reflects the current ANA definition?
A) The integration of nursing science with biology and pharmacology to produce
decision support systems.
B) The specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information
science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in
nursing practice. ✅
C) The use of computers by nurses to document patient care and facilitate billing.
D) The discipline of designing hardware for clinical settings to optimize workflow.

Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The ANA defines NI as a specialty integrating nursing, information,
and computer science to handle data → information → knowledge → wisdom in
nursing practice. Options A, C, and D are partial, incomplete, or mis‐focused.




Question 2:
Which statement is TRUE about the evolution of the definition of Nursing
Informatics?