Explain How Informatics Affects the Nursing Profession and Nursing Care
Explain the Role of the Nurse with Respect to Informatics
Describe the Future of Nursing Informatics
Random Nursing Informatics Topics
Analyze How Informatics Supports Nursing Education and Professional Development
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True - Informatics systems help with admission/discharge of a patient, data collection, check-lists/work lists for patient care, creating care plans, administering medications, and documenting progress.
T/F In a clinical setting, informatics systems are a helpful resource for nurses throughout the nursing process.
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Nursing informatics is using information and technology such as computers to support the practice of nursing in all aspects of the nursing profession.
What is nursing informatics?
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Jobs that can arise from nursing informatics are: informatics specialist, informatics specialist as educator, informatics specialist as advocate, and informatics specialist as a designer of health information.
Name different jobs that can arise from nursing informatics:
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Systems should be written in Standardized Nursing Languages (SNL); therefore, nurses can understand the actions they are contained in.
What language should nursing healthcare informatics systems be written in and why?
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E. All of the above
Nursing informatics uses technology and information to support nursing practice through which aspects? A. Profession B. Education C. Administration D. Research E. All of the above
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The National League for Nursing

___________ believes that all nursing graduates should be able to demonstrate “computer and information literacy”

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Nurses can document patient care regiments, document necessary information, obtain drug information, obtain information about policies and procedures, and gain access to information that can help caregivers grow as individuals.
What can the nurse do with healthcare informatics systems?
200
Personalized healthcare is using an individual’s genetic code to provide tailored medical care. This practice uses preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic measures that are based on family history information and genetic tests.
What is personalized healthcare?
200
Knowledge management creates different systems that allow organizations to learn from their staff in order to improve performance.
What is knowledge management?
200
True
(T/F) To be a credentialed nurse you must have two years (or equivalent) of full-time nursing practice.
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Information

Informatics systems aid in data collection and management. There are two types of data management: Knowledge Management, which stores collective data that has been developed over a period of time, and _____________ Management, which acts as an accurate source of up to date information available to healthcare professionals helping them to deliver safer patient care.

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The experienced nurse should be able to use informatics in a fully integrated way throughout his or her practice. The experienced nurse should be able to use informatics in a more advanced way than basic data entry and retrieval.
What should the experienced nurse be able to do with nursing healthcare informatics?
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The types of health informatics specialization are: medical informatics, health informatics, bioinformatics, dental informatics, consumer health informatics, clinical health informatics, and public health informatics.
Name the types of health informatics specialization:
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The many hats of nursing are: data gatherer, information user, knowledge user, and knowledge builder.
Name the many hates of nursing:
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A and B
The Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) Project is an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that seeks to help nurses acquire: (Select all that apply) A. Knowledge B. Skill set C. Practice D. Experience
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Informatics systems
________ plays a vital role in nursing research today.
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The steps of the nursing documentation practice are: admission assessments and discharge instructions, work lists for nurses, data collection, routine documentation, care plans, progress notes, and medication safety.
Name the steps of the nursing documentation practice:
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More patient data will be accessible, and will allow better decision-making opportunities.
What will occur when health informatics advances even more?
400
The novice nurse should have a basic understanding of informatics systems, and use them effectively.
What should the novice nurse be able to do with respect to nursing healthcare informatics?
400
True
(T/F) BSN programs now are expected to teach the skills to use and apply the technology. MSN graduates are expected to effectively and seamlessly use technology throughout their practice.
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Clinical Administrative Research

The ANA describes nursing informatics as aiding in which three areas of healthcare?

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Data collection through computerized systems reminds nurses of what they should be assessing with each patient, and reminds them of what to document. This leads to more thorough and adequate assessments and documentation practices.

How does healthcare informatics affect the role of the nurse?

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Issues that may occur with the future of health informatics are: usability issues in health information technology, errors in healthcare, reduced provider productivity, high costs associated with unusable systems, and uneven adoption of clinical applications.

What are some issues that the future of health informatics may face?

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Healthcare informatics improves patient safety and quality of patient care.

What does healthcare informatics improve?

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C. Computer and information literacy
The National League for Nursing (NLN) has called for nursing education reform that will ensure that every nurse graduate with: A. Pre-determined amount of hours for practice B. Education in healthcare informatics C. Computer and information literacy D. 1 year (minimum) experience in health care
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