Chapter 1 Clinical Informatics (A+ Verified)

Role of 21st century nurses correct answers -Requires interaction with multiple medical devices and health IT -Increasingly likely to be involved in the design of new clinical systems Charles Babbage correct answers -created the first mechanical computer known as the Analytical Engine designed to compute the values of polynomial functions -the father of computers Augusta Ada Lovelace correct answers -colleague of Babbage -attributed with the first efforts at programming a computer when she authored the first algorithm intended to be processed by a computer UNIVAC correct answers -developed for the U.S. Census -widely viewed as the first successful civilian computer, using in the dawn of the computer age in information processing Robert Ledley correct answers -dentist and studied physics -credited with the invention of the first full-body computed tomography (CT) scanner -founded the National Biomedical Research Foundation IN 1960 -also a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics -FORSAW THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ISSUES OF PATIENT CARE IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS -HCPs realized they could collect and store data for later patient care -Specialty fields such as clinical informatics emerged -Data is of interest to the federal government because these huge databases contain data points useful to researchers seeking answers to clinical questions correct answers name the advantages of incorporating technology into health care Harriet Werley correct answers -First nurse researcher at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute in the late 1950s -Joined a small group of people consulting about the possibilities of using computers in health care -Instrumental in promoting research on what would later emerge as the field of NI Dr. Patricia Abbott correct answers -Helped craft the initial American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics -Participated in the development of the first certification exam in NI Dr. Virginia Saba correct answers Helped initiate academic technology programs and healthcare IT systems -has coordinated distance learning projects for nurses and served on national healthcare standards committees