A Registered Nurse who works in the area of informatics.
What is a (IN) Informatics Nurse?
100
Integrated technology that is used to save time and physical burdens, and improves patient outcomes (American Academy of Nursing 2010).
What is Smart Technology?
100
Comprehensive term that includes data collection, storage and retrieval by an authorized user. It ensure the information is complete, accurate, and current.
What is data integrity?
100
Work that asks an email sender to perform a task or answer a question that requires human intervention.
What is Challenge response software?
100
Criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
What is Phishing?
200
Has an advanced, graduate education in nursing informatics or related field and may hold an ANCC certification.
What is an INS Informatics Nurse Specialist?
200
The use of informatics utilizing bar codes and radio frequency identification to improve patient safety.
What is Patient Identification?
200
The process of controlling the collection, storage, retrieval and use of data to optimize accuracy and utility while safeguarding integrity.
What is data management?
200
Provides a forum for individuals to maintain an online journal on the internet.
What is a blog?
200
Scanning of employee identification by name badge, but generally refers to identification from biological traits such as a fingerprint, voice, iris pattern, smell, blood vessels, gait recognition or even face recognition.
What is Biometrics?
300
First recognized as a specialty in 1992 by American Nurse Association (ANA).
What is Nursing Informatics?
300
A type of computer application that analyzes data and presents them in a fashion that facilitates decision making.
What is Decision- Supportive Software?
300
Streamlines the flow of clinical and financial data from one location to another.
What is electronic data interchange?
300
Sites created with a web application that allows anyone to collaboratively write and edit documents without any special technical knowledge.
What is a wiki?
300
A data collection mechanism that installs itself without the user's permission. This often happens when a user browsing the internet and downloading software, it is a concern to healthcare workers because it threatens personal health information.
What is Spyware?
400
A nurse that has computer literacy,ability to use IT to support clinical and administrative processes, ability to access data and perform documentation in computerized records, support patient safety initiatives via IT.
What is Entry- Level Core Competency for nursing informatics?
400
Electronic Transmission of drug prescriptions from a hospital based inpatient ordering system or handheld device. This process is associated with fewer errors and greater efficiency.
What is E-Prescribing
400
A procedure that uses software to improve quality of data to ensure that it is accurate enough to use in data mining and warehousing.
What is data cleansing/scrubbing?
400
URL
What is the Uniform Resource Locator (web address)
400
Maintain a record of system activity both by system and application processes and user activity of systems and applications.
What is audit trails?
500
In Nursing informatics this nurse is proficient in his or her area of specialization and use of computers and technology, knowledgeable representation of evidence based practice, the ability to work with information systems to enact system improvements.
What is the experienced nurse?
500
In 2004 the FDA issued a rule that ensures the right medication is given to the right patient when utilizing this process.
What is Barcode and RFID medication administration?
500
A knowledge management tool that engages software to uncover inter-relationships within large data sets.
What is data mining?
500
A private computer networks that is accessible only by an organization's members or employees.
What is Intranet?
500
A mechanism that logs a user off automatically after a specified amount of time of inactivity.