Nursing Informatics Test 1 Chapters 1-
6 Final Exam and Actual Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
What is data? - Answer Characters, numbers, or facts gathered for analysis and possibly later
action
What is information? - Answer Interpreted data, i.e., B/P readings
What is knowledge? - Answer Synthesis of information from several sources to produce a
single concept
What is wisdom? - Answer Occurs when knowledge is used appropriately to manage and solve
problems
What is the role of a nurse as a knowledge worker? - Answer Nurses detect patterns to create
new knowledge
Data gatherer
-Collects clinical data
Information user
-Interprets clinical data and uses it to monitor patients, aids with decisions
Knowledge user
-Compares data to current knowledge
What is the significance of good information and knowledge management for healthcare
delivery, the healthcare disciplines, and healthcare consumers? - Answer Good information
management provides the right information at the right time to the right people.
Knowledge management creates systems that enable organizations to tap into the knowledge,
experiences, and creativity of their staff to improve their performance.
What is medical informatics? - Answer The application of information science and technology
to acquire, process, organize, interpret, store, use, and communicate medical data in all of its
forms in medical education, practice and research, patient care, and health management
, settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information
processes, and information technology"
What is consumer informatics? - Answer Branch of medical informatics that studies the use of
electronic information and communication to improve medical outcomes and the health care
decision-making process from the patient/consumer perspective
What is information literacy? - Answer The ability to recognize when information is needed as
well as the skills to find, evaluate, and use needed information effectively
What is the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform Initiative? - Answer Legislation
requiring nurses learn informatics
What is the difference in informatics competencies needed for nurses entering into practice,
experienced nurses, and informatics nurses and nurse specialists? - Answer Entry
Possess basic computer skills
Use information technology to support clinical and administrative processes
Access data and charts electronically
Support patient safety initiatives using information technology
Recognize role of informatics in nursing
Experienced
Possess basic computer skills
Support specialty area, including quality improvement and other activities, via IT
Use evidence-based databases
Promote technology applications
Use information systems and work with IT staff to enact system improvements
Informatics Nurse
Proficient with informatics applications to support all areas of nursing practice
Fiscal management
Integration of multidisciplinary language/standards of practice
Demonstrates critical-thinking, data-management, decision-making, and system development
6 Final Exam and Actual Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
What is data? - Answer Characters, numbers, or facts gathered for analysis and possibly later
action
What is information? - Answer Interpreted data, i.e., B/P readings
What is knowledge? - Answer Synthesis of information from several sources to produce a
single concept
What is wisdom? - Answer Occurs when knowledge is used appropriately to manage and solve
problems
What is the role of a nurse as a knowledge worker? - Answer Nurses detect patterns to create
new knowledge
Data gatherer
-Collects clinical data
Information user
-Interprets clinical data and uses it to monitor patients, aids with decisions
Knowledge user
-Compares data to current knowledge
What is the significance of good information and knowledge management for healthcare
delivery, the healthcare disciplines, and healthcare consumers? - Answer Good information
management provides the right information at the right time to the right people.
Knowledge management creates systems that enable organizations to tap into the knowledge,
experiences, and creativity of their staff to improve their performance.
What is medical informatics? - Answer The application of information science and technology
to acquire, process, organize, interpret, store, use, and communicate medical data in all of its
forms in medical education, practice and research, patient care, and health management
, settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information
processes, and information technology"
What is consumer informatics? - Answer Branch of medical informatics that studies the use of
electronic information and communication to improve medical outcomes and the health care
decision-making process from the patient/consumer perspective
What is information literacy? - Answer The ability to recognize when information is needed as
well as the skills to find, evaluate, and use needed information effectively
What is the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform Initiative? - Answer Legislation
requiring nurses learn informatics
What is the difference in informatics competencies needed for nurses entering into practice,
experienced nurses, and informatics nurses and nurse specialists? - Answer Entry
Possess basic computer skills
Use information technology to support clinical and administrative processes
Access data and charts electronically
Support patient safety initiatives using information technology
Recognize role of informatics in nursing
Experienced
Possess basic computer skills
Support specialty area, including quality improvement and other activities, via IT
Use evidence-based databases
Promote technology applications
Use information systems and work with IT staff to enact system improvements
Informatics Nurse
Proficient with informatics applications to support all areas of nursing practice
Fiscal management
Integration of multidisciplinary language/standards of practice
Demonstrates critical-thinking, data-management, decision-making, and system development
