WGU D220- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
NURSING PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
computer literacy - ✔The ability to use computers for basic tasks, such as developing
documents, sending emails and searching the internet for information.
Nursing informatics - ✔uses information and technology to communicate, manage
knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making
Translational Bioinformatics - ✔Deals with the storage, analysis, and interpretation of
large volumes of data.
Clinical research informatics - ✔Discovery and management of new knowledge
pertinent to health and disease from clinical trials and secondary data use.
Clinical Informatics - ✔delivery of timely, safe, efficient, effective, evidence-based and
patient-centered care
consumer health informatics (CHI) - ✔focus is on the consumer, or patient, view and
the structure and processes that enables consumers to manage their own health.
Applications for consumer health informatics:
-Personal health record
-telehealth
-mobile health
-games for health
-health 2.0
public health informatics - ✔surveillance, prevention, health promotion and
preparedness
Data - ✔numbers, characters, or facts gathered for analysis and possible action
Information - ✔the collection of facts and patterns extracted from data
knowledge - ✔synthesis of information from several sources to produce a single
concept
NANDA - ✔North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, purpose is to define, refine,
and promote a taxonomy of nursing diagnostic terminology of general use to
professional nurses.
Quantative Methods - ✔focus on numbers and frequencies, with the goal of finding
relationships or variables specific to an outcome.
, WGU D220- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
NURSING PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
Qualitative Methods - ✔attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot
be readily converted to numeric form
EBP - ✔Evidence-based practice: nursing care provided that is supported by sound
scientific rationale
Big Data - ✔very large data sets that are beyond human capability to analyze or
manage without the aid of information technology.
information literacy - ✔the ability to recognize when information is needed as well as
the skills to find, evaluate and use needed information effectively.
knowing when specific information is needed, why it is important, and then being able to
locate it, evaluate it, and apply it
health literacy - ✔the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process,
and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate
health decisions
wisdom - ✔application of knowledge to manage and solve problems
TIGER - ✔initiative for technology informatics guiding education reform; advance
nurses' competencies related to informatics.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) - ✔an electronic system that allows physicians,
nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers, and patients to appropriately access
and securely share a patient's vital medical information.
types:
-directed exchange:ability to send and receive secure information to other health care
providers involved in a patients care over the internet
-query-based exchange: healthcare providers the ability to find and/or request
information on a patient from other providers and is often used for
unplanned/emergency care
-consumer mediated exchange: give patients the ability to aggregate and manage their
health information on the internet.
Data Quality - ✔A comprehensive approach to ensuring the accuracy, validity, and
timeliness of data.
NURSING PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
computer literacy - ✔The ability to use computers for basic tasks, such as developing
documents, sending emails and searching the internet for information.
Nursing informatics - ✔uses information and technology to communicate, manage
knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making
Translational Bioinformatics - ✔Deals with the storage, analysis, and interpretation of
large volumes of data.
Clinical research informatics - ✔Discovery and management of new knowledge
pertinent to health and disease from clinical trials and secondary data use.
Clinical Informatics - ✔delivery of timely, safe, efficient, effective, evidence-based and
patient-centered care
consumer health informatics (CHI) - ✔focus is on the consumer, or patient, view and
the structure and processes that enables consumers to manage their own health.
Applications for consumer health informatics:
-Personal health record
-telehealth
-mobile health
-games for health
-health 2.0
public health informatics - ✔surveillance, prevention, health promotion and
preparedness
Data - ✔numbers, characters, or facts gathered for analysis and possible action
Information - ✔the collection of facts and patterns extracted from data
knowledge - ✔synthesis of information from several sources to produce a single
concept
NANDA - ✔North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, purpose is to define, refine,
and promote a taxonomy of nursing diagnostic terminology of general use to
professional nurses.
Quantative Methods - ✔focus on numbers and frequencies, with the goal of finding
relationships or variables specific to an outcome.
, WGU D220- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
NURSING PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
Qualitative Methods - ✔attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot
be readily converted to numeric form
EBP - ✔Evidence-based practice: nursing care provided that is supported by sound
scientific rationale
Big Data - ✔very large data sets that are beyond human capability to analyze or
manage without the aid of information technology.
information literacy - ✔the ability to recognize when information is needed as well as
the skills to find, evaluate and use needed information effectively.
knowing when specific information is needed, why it is important, and then being able to
locate it, evaluate it, and apply it
health literacy - ✔the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process,
and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate
health decisions
wisdom - ✔application of knowledge to manage and solve problems
TIGER - ✔initiative for technology informatics guiding education reform; advance
nurses' competencies related to informatics.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) - ✔an electronic system that allows physicians,
nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers, and patients to appropriately access
and securely share a patient's vital medical information.
types:
-directed exchange:ability to send and receive secure information to other health care
providers involved in a patients care over the internet
-query-based exchange: healthcare providers the ability to find and/or request
information on a patient from other providers and is often used for
unplanned/emergency care
-consumer mediated exchange: give patients the ability to aggregate and manage their
health information on the internet.
Data Quality - ✔A comprehensive approach to ensuring the accuracy, validity, and
timeliness of data.
