NR 599 Midterm Review with 90 Q&A

Review Questions found online: 1. The nurse understands that nursing informatics is recognized as a specialty area of practice by which statement? o Research priorities for nursing informatics include the development of a standard nursing language and the development of databases for clinical information. 2. Which statement by the nurse verifies that the nurse is "information literate"? o "I understand how to search for a website and evaluate its usefulness for health care needs." 3. What is information? o data that can be interpreted. Example: patient’s temperature. Grouping of data process into meaningful structured form. 4. The nurse gathers much data when caring for clients. Which is an example of the higher-level "information" useful in caring for clients? o After receiving Rocephin (ceftriaxone sodium) 1.0 gram IV yesterday, the client reported feeling better today. 5. Which statement best distinguishes the difference between information literacy and computer literacy? o Information literacy forms the basis for ongoing learning whereas computer literacy refers to a familiarity with the use of personal computers 6. Which statement indicates the appropriate level of informatics competencies to the correct nurse? o A nurse informatics specialist extrapolates data to develop best practice model for indwelling catheter care. 7. What is Quality Information? o Information that is timeliness, precision, accuracy, numerically quantifiable, easily available, unbiased, clear and reliable 8. What is data? o A collection of numbers, characters, or facts that are gathered for a need ▪ EX: patients vital signs. Raw unprocessed numbers, symbols or words that have no meaning by themselves. Without context data is meaningless. 9. What is data integrity? o ability to collect, store, and retrieve correct, complete, and current data so data is available to authorized users 10. What is necessary to determine if a website has quality information? o Credited seal, good contact info, not selling things, creditable author, unbiased (things discussed in class) has URAC or HON CODE, updated o Offline: thumb drive, CD, something stored on a medium, not used as much o Online: Safe through network, backs it up, easy access, used more frequently,