WGU D220 Updated Study Guide Questions
and Answers (2026) | Focused Revision Pack
| Grade A+
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) -✓✓Enacted to revitalize
nations economy and create jobs. A significant portion was dedicated to expanding
the use of HIT to improve the business efficiency and effectiveness of HCOs while
increasing patient safety and positive health outcomes. It also enacted an incentive
program known as Meaningful Use
• Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -✓✓Supports research
designed to improve outcomes and quality of healthcare.
• Asynchronous Applications -✓✓No contact with the patient for data collection.
• Asynchronous communication examples -✓✓Remote pt monitoring, Using health
technologies to share health metrics and data w/ providers, store & forward apps
(ex: photos)
• Administrative Information System -✓✓includes registration and scheduling,
tracking through admission, transfer and discharge, patient acuity and staff
scheduling, financial or accounting systems, risk management, payroll, and hr,
quality assurance and contract management functions
• Affordable Care Act -✓✓law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance,
address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and
introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights
, • Alarm fatigue -✓✓The phenomenon of nurses becoming desensitized to patient
care alarms and missing or delaying their response to the alarm
• artificial intelligence -✓✓Use of algorithms and other technologies to mimic
human cognition and predict outcomes
• Audit trail -✓✓a report that traces who has accessed electronic information, when
information was accessed, and whether any information was changed
• Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) -✓✓**Mandated by the FDA**
Real-time, automated documentation of patient's medication. Needs CPOE, A
pharmacy system, & an EMAR system to function.
• Benchmarking -✓✓A process of continuously measuring system results,
comparing those results to optimal system performance (benchmark values), and
identifying steps and procedures to improve system performance
• Biometrics -✓✓the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic,
such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
• Checklists -✓✓another simple way of gathering data in order to organize facts in
an easy way so an issue or problem can be reviewed in more detail.
*Some of the most common examples are checklists for FREQUENCIES of an
EVENT or CONSEQUENCES of using a particular PROCESS.
• Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) -✓✓The senior manager (usually a registered nurse
with advanced education and extensive experience) responsible for administering
patient care services
and Answers (2026) | Focused Revision Pack
| Grade A+
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) -✓✓Enacted to revitalize
nations economy and create jobs. A significant portion was dedicated to expanding
the use of HIT to improve the business efficiency and effectiveness of HCOs while
increasing patient safety and positive health outcomes. It also enacted an incentive
program known as Meaningful Use
• Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -✓✓Supports research
designed to improve outcomes and quality of healthcare.
• Asynchronous Applications -✓✓No contact with the patient for data collection.
• Asynchronous communication examples -✓✓Remote pt monitoring, Using health
technologies to share health metrics and data w/ providers, store & forward apps
(ex: photos)
• Administrative Information System -✓✓includes registration and scheduling,
tracking through admission, transfer and discharge, patient acuity and staff
scheduling, financial or accounting systems, risk management, payroll, and hr,
quality assurance and contract management functions
• Affordable Care Act -✓✓law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance,
address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and
introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights
, • Alarm fatigue -✓✓The phenomenon of nurses becoming desensitized to patient
care alarms and missing or delaying their response to the alarm
• artificial intelligence -✓✓Use of algorithms and other technologies to mimic
human cognition and predict outcomes
• Audit trail -✓✓a report that traces who has accessed electronic information, when
information was accessed, and whether any information was changed
• Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) -✓✓**Mandated by the FDA**
Real-time, automated documentation of patient's medication. Needs CPOE, A
pharmacy system, & an EMAR system to function.
• Benchmarking -✓✓A process of continuously measuring system results,
comparing those results to optimal system performance (benchmark values), and
identifying steps and procedures to improve system performance
• Biometrics -✓✓the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic,
such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
• Checklists -✓✓another simple way of gathering data in order to organize facts in
an easy way so an issue or problem can be reviewed in more detail.
*Some of the most common examples are checklists for FREQUENCIES of an
EVENT or CONSEQUENCES of using a particular PROCESS.
• Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) -✓✓The senior manager (usually a registered nurse
with advanced education and extensive experience) responsible for administering
patient care services
