NUR320 CERTIFICATION PAPER 2026
FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
● building blocks. Answer: Basic elements or parts of nursing
informatics such as information science, computer science, cognitive
science, and nursing science.
● Clinical databases. Answer: Collections of related patient records
stored in a computer system using software that permits a person or
program to query the data to extract needed patient information.
● Clinical practice guidelines. Answer: Informal or formal rules or
guiding principles that a healthcare provider uses when determining
diagnostic tests and treatment strategies for individual patients. In the
electronic health record, they are included in a variety of ways such as
prompts, pop-ups, and text messages.
● conceptual framework. Answer: Framework used in research to chart
feasible course of action or to present a desired approach to a study or
analysis; built from a set of concepts that are related to a proposed or
existing system of methods, behavior, functions, relationships, and
objects. A relational model. A formal way of thinking or conceptualizing
about a phenomenon, process, or system under study.
● Data. Answer: Raw facts that lack meaning.
, ● Data mining. Answer: A process of utilizing software to sort through
data so as to discover patterns and ascertain or establish relationships.
This process may help to discover or uncover previously unidentified
relationships among the data in a database.
● Evidence. Answer: Artifacts, productions, attestations, or other
examples that demonstrate an individual's knowledge, skills, or valued
attributes.
● Feedback. Answer: Input in the form of opinions about or reactions to
something such as shared knowledge. In an information system,
feedback refers to information from the system that is used to make
modifications in the input, processing actions, or outputs.
● Foundation of Knowledge model. Answer: Model proposing that
humans are organic information systems constantly acquiring,
processing, generating, and disseminating information or knowledge in
both their professional and personal lives. The organizing framework of
this text.
● Information. Answer: Data that are interpreted, organized, or
structured. Data processed using knowledge or data made functional
through the application of knowledge.
FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
● building blocks. Answer: Basic elements or parts of nursing
informatics such as information science, computer science, cognitive
science, and nursing science.
● Clinical databases. Answer: Collections of related patient records
stored in a computer system using software that permits a person or
program to query the data to extract needed patient information.
● Clinical practice guidelines. Answer: Informal or formal rules or
guiding principles that a healthcare provider uses when determining
diagnostic tests and treatment strategies for individual patients. In the
electronic health record, they are included in a variety of ways such as
prompts, pop-ups, and text messages.
● conceptual framework. Answer: Framework used in research to chart
feasible course of action or to present a desired approach to a study or
analysis; built from a set of concepts that are related to a proposed or
existing system of methods, behavior, functions, relationships, and
objects. A relational model. A formal way of thinking or conceptualizing
about a phenomenon, process, or system under study.
● Data. Answer: Raw facts that lack meaning.
, ● Data mining. Answer: A process of utilizing software to sort through
data so as to discover patterns and ascertain or establish relationships.
This process may help to discover or uncover previously unidentified
relationships among the data in a database.
● Evidence. Answer: Artifacts, productions, attestations, or other
examples that demonstrate an individual's knowledge, skills, or valued
attributes.
● Feedback. Answer: Input in the form of opinions about or reactions to
something such as shared knowledge. In an information system,
feedback refers to information from the system that is used to make
modifications in the input, processing actions, or outputs.
● Foundation of Knowledge model. Answer: Model proposing that
humans are organic information systems constantly acquiring,
processing, generating, and disseminating information or knowledge in
both their professional and personal lives. The organizing framework of
this text.
● Information. Answer: Data that are interpreted, organized, or
structured. Data processed using knowledge or data made functional
through the application of knowledge.
