This is the use of information and technology as a tool to process information to support all areas of nursing, and allows nurses to have better control over data management.
What is Nursing Informatics?
100
Informatics has created smooth transitions between shifts and facilitates ease of ____ between different departments regarding patient information.
What is Communication?
100
Manniquins are used in this type of training in academic and clinical settings
What is Simulation Training?
100
This is a type database that students can work on collaboratively.
What is a Wiki?
100
This continues to be a development tool for content producers, instructors and students.
What is E-Text?
200
This nurse specialist has advanced education in nursing informatics or a related field, and may serve as leaders in the field of healthcare informatics.
What is the Informatics Nurse Specialist, or INS?
200
This has improved because of the ability to instantly check for drug interactions and safe medication administration.
What is Medication Safety?
200
This is used to ensure staff can perform skills safely and correctly.
What is Competency Based Training?
200
The first completely online journal in nursing.
What is the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing?
200
This revolutionized education in formal healthcare programs, continuing education, and consumer education.
What is Computer Technology?
300
This provided additional funding for informatics training and education.
What is the HITECH Act?
300
Informatics systems create these that are standardized, and they can then be individualized for specific patient needs.
What are Care Plans?
300
This is the ability to deliver presentations that combine text, voice or sound, images and video.
What is Multimedia Presentations?
300
A free website that healthcare professionals and consumers of healthcare can use to access medical information, products, resources, and healthcare providers, all in one place on the world wide web.
What is Healthlink?
300
Name one technology that has moved care outside the hospitals and adds to patient convenience.
What are Mobile Apps?
400
This nurse works in healthcare informatics, or has an interest in informatics but does not have an advanced degree or accreditation in informatics.
What is the Informatics Nurse, or IN?
400
Nurses have instant access to databases regarding procedures and patient care based off this.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
400
This type of learning offers convenience, decreased learning time, and increased retention.
What is Virtual Learning Environment?
400
An online document that educators can use to supplement coursework, provide an online discussion forum for students, or as a resource for continuing education.
What is a blog, or Web Log?
400
Perceived usefulness, ease of use, and computer /technology self efficacy are associated with...
What is Consumer Health Informatics (CHI acceptance)?
500
This ensures access to the right information to people that need it, and is especially important when the information exceeds human processing capacity.
What is good information management?
500
This element of the nursing process has reduced errors previously caused by bad handwriting.
What are Progress Notes?
500
This software facilitates role transition from student to graduate nurse, makes graduates more attractive to employers and enables hospitals to better utilize orientation time for graduates.
What is Hospital Information Systems?
500
Learning events that can stand alone and address one or two learning objects.
What are reusable learning objects, or RLO’s?
500
This is dedicated to promoting the use of information technology as a means of improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of managing and improving healthcare delivery.