NURS 120: INTRODUCTION TO NURSING INFORMATICS FINAL EXAMINATION. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

47. The older terminologies of health care computing have been replaced with more meaningful, descriptive terminologies that reflect the movement toward information as a resource. To this end, data entry is now known as:: a. Decision support b. Data extraction c. Safety & Outcomes Measurement d. Knowledge acquisition e. Data mining 48. The information silos of old hospital systems are now called: a. Consumer resources b. Integrated networks c. Transdisciplinary outcomes d. Decision support systems e. Knowledge repositories Part II: True/False Questions 49. Access to patient-specific, agency-specific, & domain-specific data, information & knowledge, by nurses, has potential to improve ICU decision making a. True b. False 50. The management of information is the functional ability to collect, aggregate, organize, move & represent information in an economical, efficient way. a. True