Technology & Informatics
The staff nurse who uses informatics in promoting quality patient care is most likely to access data in which domain?
A. Certified clinical information systems (CIS)
B. Clinical healthcare informatics
C. Public health/population informatics
D. Translational bioinformatics
The knowledge and use of tools, machines, materials, and processes to help human problems.
A. Informatics.
B. Computer.
C. Technology.
D. Health informatics.
Health IT is a precursor or antecedent to health informatics.
A. True
B. False
Health informatics is a discipline in which health data are stored, analyzed, and disseminated through the application of information and communication technology.
A. True
B. False
When discussing the purposes of healthcare informatics with a nurse during orientation, the nurse educator would be concerned if the nurse orientee stated that which is one purpose of informatics?
A. Develop a cognitive science.
B. Improve disease tracking.
C. Improve the health provider’s work flow.
D. Increase administrative efficiencies.
A nurse, statistician, and foundational philosopher of modern Nursing.
A. Florence Nightingale.
B. Dorothea Orem.
C. Jean Watson.
D. Madeleine Leininger.
To address a goal of improving the health of populations, a nurse is most likely to use which domain of informatics?
A. Certified clinical information systems
B. Clinical healthcare informatics
C. Public health/population informatics
D. Translocational bioinformatics
Which are exemplars of the health informatics concept?
A. Clinical research informatics
B. Hardware and software
C. Privacy and security
D. Standard terminology
The application of information processing that deals with the storage, retrieval sharing, and use of healthcare data, information, and knowledge for communication and decision making is the definition of which area?
A. Computer science
B. Health informatics
C. Health information technology
D. Nursing informatics
A unique feature of nursing informatics?
A. Limited data access
B. Cross-disciplinary nature
C. Use by physicians and consumers
D. Highly-specialized software
Which concepts should a nurse consider to have the strongest links to technology and informatics? (Select all that apply.)
A. Clinical judgment
B. Ethics
C. Leadership
D. Professionalism
E. Safety
To design and implement a decubitus ulcer risk management protocol in the electronic health record, the informatics nurse would first perform which action?
A. Build the screens in the electronic health record.
B. Determine evidence supporting decubitus ulcer risk management.
C. Develop the training program for staff.
D. Select the appropriate standardized language.
Which domain’s objective is to advance the biomedical/health sciences through the humane and ethical use of informatics?
A. Clinical health care
B. Clinical research
C. Public health
D. Translational
The nurse manager of a medical/surgical unit wants to increase the use of healthcare technology on the unit and is working with an ANA-certified informatics nurse to reduce which barriers to health information exchange?
A. Basic informatics knowledge and skills
B. Offering the best set of tools
C. Privacy and security policies
D. Unit-specific terminology
A nurse is reviewing concepts related to documentation in the electronic health record. Which statement best represents the concept of “meaningful use”?
A. Allows for privacy of information.
B. Uses individualized log on for access.
C. Completes charting in a timely manner.
D. Meets established criteria related to technological use.
The science involved in implementation of informatics is described as the interprofessional study of mind, intelligence, and behavior from an information-processing perspective?
A. Information
B. Computer
C. Cognitive
D. Organizational
The specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice is known as which specialty?
A. Computer science
B. Health informatics
C. Health information technology
D. Nursing informatics