Introduction to Information Systems in Healthcare
Computer and Information Literate
1. Which healthcare providers are challenged with becoming and staying computer
and information literate to facilitate the delivery of safe, quality care? Select all that
apply.
a. Nurses
b. Physical therapists
c. Therapists
d. Social workers
e. Physicians
Healthcare workers in every setting are being challenged with becoming and staying
computer literate. Providers (physicians, advanced practice nurses), nurses, therapists,
dietitians, social workers, etc. and various nonprofessionals need to be computer literate,
and most of them need to be information literate. From a nursing standpoint, many
organizations and other interested stakeholders have defined informatics competencies that
are deemed essential to facilitate the delivery of safe, efficient care, and to add depth to
their knowledge base.
Nursing Skills
2. Which nursing skill involves integrating health information with computerized
systems to increase information management and client safety?
a. Informatics literacy
b. Data acquisition
c. Information literacy
d. Informatics wisdom
Informatics literacy involves integrating health information with computerized systems to
increase information management and ensure patient safety. It enables the knowledge,
skill, and attitude (KSA) to use technology to not only input information into a clinical
system but also retrieve and manage the information to improve client safety and quality
outcomes.
Nursing Informatics
3. Nursing informatics concentrates on finding ways to impact which aspects of health
care? Select all that apply.
a. Improve information management
b. Enhance safety and quality of care
c. Improve communication
d. Increase costs
, e. Improve efficiency
Nursing informatics concentrates on finding ways to improve information management
and communication to improve efficiency, reduce costs (not increase cost), and ultimately
enhance safety and quality of care.
Informatics Influences
4. Integration of informatics influences which aspects of health care? Select all that
apply.
a. Delivery of healthcare
b. How resources are managed
c. Increases in staffing
d. The function of interprofessional teams
Remember, the ways in which care is delivered, resources are managed, and how
interprofessional teams' function are all influenced by informatics. Informatics does not
necessarily influence increases in staffing.
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform Initiative
5. The technology informatics guiding education reform (TIGER) initiative was
designed to use health information technology in nursing practice by focusing on
which initiatives? Select all that apply.
a. Common vision and strategy in use of health information technology
b. Practice standards in informatics.
c. Ways to improve the delivery of patient care
d. Improve informatics knowledge and skills
The TIGER Initiative, which is an acronym for Technology Informatics Guide Education
Reform, was designed in 2004 with the goal of bringing together nurses to develop a
common vision, strategies, and specific goals for the purpose of improving nursing practice,
education, and the delivery of patient care using health information technology (IT)
(HIMSS, 2016). From this group, recommendations were made for the creation of
competencies, intended to guide practice. These competencies have been included in
various programs throughout the country.
Reference
Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS). (2016). In HIMSS (Ed.),
The TIGER initiative. https://www.himss.org/tiger-initiative-technology-and-health-
informatics-education
Literacy
6. What type of literacy using standardized terminology is required by the nurse
documenting a client's plan of care in the electronic health record?
a. Information literacy
, b. Healthcare literacy
c. Technological literacy
d. Informatics literacy
Informatics literacy involves integrating health information with computerized systems to
increase information management and patient safety. For example, documenting the
client's plan of care in the electronic health record demonstrates a way to improve client
safety and mitigate errors in healthcare systems.
The development of standards and database structures to facilitate clinical care, education,
administration or research includes the use of standardized terminology in the electronic
health record which aims to improve patient care and safety.
Competencies
7. Healthcare providers understand which nurse competencies help to mitigate error
and increase communication and access to information? Select all that apply.
a. Computer fluency
b. Healthcare fluency
c. Informatics literacy
d. Information literacy
Computer fluency, information literacy, and informatics literacy aim to help mitigate
errors and increase communication and access to information. Healthcare fluency is not an
informatics competency.
Competencies in Informatics
8. Read each description and identify the correct competency essential in nursing
practice.
Informatics literacy
Computer fluency
Healthcare literacy
Information literacy
includes the use of basic computer operating systems and software for word processing,
spreadsheets, and presentation software as well as computer use to find information
rapidly and efficiently.
Informatics literacy
Computer fluency
Healthcare literacy
Information literacy
Computer and Information Literate
1. Which healthcare providers are challenged with becoming and staying computer
and information literate to facilitate the delivery of safe, quality care? Select all that
apply.
a. Nurses
b. Physical therapists
c. Therapists
d. Social workers
e. Physicians
Healthcare workers in every setting are being challenged with becoming and staying
computer literate. Providers (physicians, advanced practice nurses), nurses, therapists,
dietitians, social workers, etc. and various nonprofessionals need to be computer literate,
and most of them need to be information literate. From a nursing standpoint, many
organizations and other interested stakeholders have defined informatics competencies that
are deemed essential to facilitate the delivery of safe, efficient care, and to add depth to
their knowledge base.
Nursing Skills
2. Which nursing skill involves integrating health information with computerized
systems to increase information management and client safety?
a. Informatics literacy
b. Data acquisition
c. Information literacy
d. Informatics wisdom
Informatics literacy involves integrating health information with computerized systems to
increase information management and ensure patient safety. It enables the knowledge,
skill, and attitude (KSA) to use technology to not only input information into a clinical
system but also retrieve and manage the information to improve client safety and quality
outcomes.
Nursing Informatics
3. Nursing informatics concentrates on finding ways to impact which aspects of health
care? Select all that apply.
a. Improve information management
b. Enhance safety and quality of care
c. Improve communication
d. Increase costs
, e. Improve efficiency
Nursing informatics concentrates on finding ways to improve information management
and communication to improve efficiency, reduce costs (not increase cost), and ultimately
enhance safety and quality of care.
Informatics Influences
4. Integration of informatics influences which aspects of health care? Select all that
apply.
a. Delivery of healthcare
b. How resources are managed
c. Increases in staffing
d. The function of interprofessional teams
Remember, the ways in which care is delivered, resources are managed, and how
interprofessional teams' function are all influenced by informatics. Informatics does not
necessarily influence increases in staffing.
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform Initiative
5. The technology informatics guiding education reform (TIGER) initiative was
designed to use health information technology in nursing practice by focusing on
which initiatives? Select all that apply.
a. Common vision and strategy in use of health information technology
b. Practice standards in informatics.
c. Ways to improve the delivery of patient care
d. Improve informatics knowledge and skills
The TIGER Initiative, which is an acronym for Technology Informatics Guide Education
Reform, was designed in 2004 with the goal of bringing together nurses to develop a
common vision, strategies, and specific goals for the purpose of improving nursing practice,
education, and the delivery of patient care using health information technology (IT)
(HIMSS, 2016). From this group, recommendations were made for the creation of
competencies, intended to guide practice. These competencies have been included in
various programs throughout the country.
Reference
Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS). (2016). In HIMSS (Ed.),
The TIGER initiative. https://www.himss.org/tiger-initiative-technology-and-health-
informatics-education
Literacy
6. What type of literacy using standardized terminology is required by the nurse
documenting a client's plan of care in the electronic health record?
a. Information literacy
, b. Healthcare literacy
c. Technological literacy
d. Informatics literacy
Informatics literacy involves integrating health information with computerized systems to
increase information management and patient safety. For example, documenting the
client's plan of care in the electronic health record demonstrates a way to improve client
safety and mitigate errors in healthcare systems.
The development of standards and database structures to facilitate clinical care, education,
administration or research includes the use of standardized terminology in the electronic
health record which aims to improve patient care and safety.
Competencies
7. Healthcare providers understand which nurse competencies help to mitigate error
and increase communication and access to information? Select all that apply.
a. Computer fluency
b. Healthcare fluency
c. Informatics literacy
d. Information literacy
Computer fluency, information literacy, and informatics literacy aim to help mitigate
errors and increase communication and access to information. Healthcare fluency is not an
informatics competency.
Competencies in Informatics
8. Read each description and identify the correct competency essential in nursing
practice.
Informatics literacy
Computer fluency
Healthcare literacy
Information literacy
includes the use of basic computer operating systems and software for word processing,
spreadsheets, and presentation software as well as computer use to find information
rapidly and efficiently.
Informatics literacy
Computer fluency
Healthcare literacy
Information literacy
