Nursing Informatics for the Advanced
Practice Nurse 2nd Edition by
McBride Tietze Test Bank
,• Question 1
2 out of 2 points
After teaching a group of students about the benefits of informatics to the
nursing profession, the instructor
determines that the students need additional teaching when they identify which
of the following as a benefit?
Selected
Answer:
Increase in time needed for
documentation
Answers:
Improvement in documentation
Use of data for quality control
Building of evidence-based knowledge
Increase in time needed for
documentation
Response Ans: D Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process:
:
Teaching/Learning Objective: 5 Page and Header:
14, Benefits to the Nursing Profession Feedback: Documentation
can be improved using informatics, and when done properly, the
time needed for documentation would decrease. In addition,
nursing informatics will not only enhance practice but will also
allow information to be available to researchers for building
evidence-based nursing knowledge. It can remind users to
provide data that might be forgotten. The data could be used for
both quality control and research.
• Question 2
2 out of 2 points
When describing the benefits of informatics to a group of agency staff,
which of the following would the presenter identify as one of the
primary benefits?
Selected
, Answer: Increase usability of
data
Answers:
Increase usability of
data
Promote cost-saving
Promote time-saving
Allow identification of
patterns
Response Ans: A Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: :
Teaching/Learning Objective: 5 Page and Header: 13, For Healthcare in
General Feedback: Although informatics saves time and money and allows
patterns to be identified from data, one of the primary benefits of informatics
is that data that were previously buried in inaccessible records become
usable.
• Question 3
• Question 4
0 out of 2 points
A nursing student is reviewing information about early computerized
clinical information systems. Which of the following would the
student identify as characteristic?
Selected
Answer: Ability to share information among several departments
Answers: Implementation to perform two or three functions
Ability to share information among several departments
Creation of different software systems for
different areas
, Entry of data occurring only once
Response Ans: C Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process:
: Teaching/Learning Objective: 1 Page and Header: 12, Progression of
Information Systems Feedback: Early computerized clinical
information systems were process-oriented, implemented to
computerize a single process such as billing or lab reports.
Subsequently, different software programs had to be created for
different departments that could not share data, creating a need
for clinicians
to enter data more than once. Sharing data was difficult and
sometimes impossible.
• Question 5
2 out of 2 points
An informatics nurse specialist would describe information literacy as
essential for which of the following?
Selected Answer:
Evidence-based
Answers: practice
Critical thinking
Problem solving
Data evaluation
Evidence-based practice
Response Ans: D Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: :
Teaching/Learning Objective: 6 Page and Header: 16, Information Literacy
Feedback: Information literacy is an important part of the foundation for
evidence-based practice and provides nurses with the ability to be intelligent
information consumers in today's electronic environment. It involves critical
thinking and problem solving and the ability to know when information is
needed and how to locate, evaluate, and use it effectively.
Practice Nurse 2nd Edition by
McBride Tietze Test Bank
,• Question 1
2 out of 2 points
After teaching a group of students about the benefits of informatics to the
nursing profession, the instructor
determines that the students need additional teaching when they identify which
of the following as a benefit?
Selected
Answer:
Increase in time needed for
documentation
Answers:
Improvement in documentation
Use of data for quality control
Building of evidence-based knowledge
Increase in time needed for
documentation
Response Ans: D Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process:
:
Teaching/Learning Objective: 5 Page and Header:
14, Benefits to the Nursing Profession Feedback: Documentation
can be improved using informatics, and when done properly, the
time needed for documentation would decrease. In addition,
nursing informatics will not only enhance practice but will also
allow information to be available to researchers for building
evidence-based nursing knowledge. It can remind users to
provide data that might be forgotten. The data could be used for
both quality control and research.
• Question 2
2 out of 2 points
When describing the benefits of informatics to a group of agency staff,
which of the following would the presenter identify as one of the
primary benefits?
Selected
, Answer: Increase usability of
data
Answers:
Increase usability of
data
Promote cost-saving
Promote time-saving
Allow identification of
patterns
Response Ans: A Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: :
Teaching/Learning Objective: 5 Page and Header: 13, For Healthcare in
General Feedback: Although informatics saves time and money and allows
patterns to be identified from data, one of the primary benefits of informatics
is that data that were previously buried in inaccessible records become
usable.
• Question 3
• Question 4
0 out of 2 points
A nursing student is reviewing information about early computerized
clinical information systems. Which of the following would the
student identify as characteristic?
Selected
Answer: Ability to share information among several departments
Answers: Implementation to perform two or three functions
Ability to share information among several departments
Creation of different software systems for
different areas
, Entry of data occurring only once
Response Ans: C Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process:
: Teaching/Learning Objective: 1 Page and Header: 12, Progression of
Information Systems Feedback: Early computerized clinical
information systems were process-oriented, implemented to
computerize a single process such as billing or lab reports.
Subsequently, different software programs had to be created for
different departments that could not share data, creating a need
for clinicians
to enter data more than once. Sharing data was difficult and
sometimes impossible.
• Question 5
2 out of 2 points
An informatics nurse specialist would describe information literacy as
essential for which of the following?
Selected Answer:
Evidence-based
Answers: practice
Critical thinking
Problem solving
Data evaluation
Evidence-based practice
Response Ans: D Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A-1 Cognitive Level:
Feedback Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: :
Teaching/Learning Objective: 6 Page and Header: 16, Information Literacy
Feedback: Information literacy is an important part of the foundation for
evidence-based practice and provides nurses with the ability to be intelligent
information consumers in today's electronic environment. It involves critical
thinking and problem solving and the ability to know when information is
needed and how to locate, evaluate, and use it effectively.
