c468 PA ALREADY PASSED
c. Data Mining -✔✔Which of the following uses database applications to sift through large amounts
of data and looks for previously hidden trends?
a. Evidence-Based Practice
b. Quantitative Analysis
c. Data Mining
d. Digital Library
c. To promote desired clinical outcomes -✔✔A nurse is reviewing a patient's pneumonia vaccination
status in the electronic medical record. The nurse determines the patient needs this vaccine before
discharge to meet the requirements of a current clinical pathway. Why would the nurse use
information systems in this manner?
a. To ensure cost effectiveness
b. To control communicable disease
c. To promote desired clinical outcomes
d. To meet requirements of the nurse practice act
b. Lack of continued support -✔✔A nursing informatics specialist at a small, rural hospital
implemented a clinical information system utilizing an electronic health record (EHR). She obtained
input from nurses regarding selection of the specific EHR. She noted that some of the nurses had
negative attitudes towards a change to the EHR, but she encouraged them to try the system and note
its benefits. She implemented the system after all nurses were trained about the EHR. There were
numerous complaints about the EHR, which the Nursing Informatics Specialist decided to ignore
since the personnel were new to the system. Which barrier to implementing technology is present in
the scenario?
a. Inadequate training
b. Lack of continued support
c. Lack of end user involvement
d. Ignoring attitudes early in the process
d. The time spent waiting for the program to register the patient could delay critical care being
delivered in a timely manner. -✔✔A computer program was implemented at a hospital that required
nurses to wait until the patient arrived in the emergency room and was registered into the program
,before orders for critical time-sensitive treatment could be written. How could this program become
a barrier to the nurses attempting to deliver patient-centered care?
a. The computer program could intimidate the nurses and cause them to shy away from the patients.
b. The time spent waiting for the program to register the patient could allow the nurses to restock
patient rooms.
c. The computer program could interest the nurses more than the patients do, thus entertaining the
nurses away from their focus on the patient.
d. The time spent waiting for the program to register the patient could delay critical care being
delivered in a timely manner.
a. Information is data that have been interpreted -✔✔How is information related to data?
a. Information is data that have been interpreted
b. Information forms the base for accurate data collection
c. Data provide an explanation of information
d. Data is constructed through information synthesis
a. The nurse can discern research findings that can be applied to practice
d. Nurses must frequently consult resources including peers and general internet searches -✔✔How
does information literacy support the use of evidence-based-practice (EBP) in nursing? Choose 2
answers
a. The nurse can discern research findings that can be applied to practice
b. Nurses consistently role-model this behavior in their practice environment
c. Nurses are comfortable in performing data base searches
d. Nurses must frequently consult resources including peers and general internet searches
a. Information system -✔✔A nurse documents care of a patient with a decubitus ulcer in the
electronic health record. Which term describes the electronic health record in this situation?
a. Information system
b. Information science
c. Information technology
d. Information processing
, b. Nurses generate knowledge as a product. -✔✔Which statement describes nurses as knowledge
workers?
a. Nurses design and maintain knowledge.
b. Nurses generate knowledge as a product.
c. Nurses evolve knowledge based on information.
d. Nurses provide efficient means of capturing knowledge.
a. Beginning Nurse -✔✔Uses information systems to manage patients
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
c. Informatics Innovator -✔✔Generates informatics theory
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist -✔✔Focuses on nursing's information needs
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
b. Experienced Nurse -✔✔Pulls trends out of data
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
c. Data Mining -✔✔Which of the following uses database applications to sift through large amounts
of data and looks for previously hidden trends?
a. Evidence-Based Practice
b. Quantitative Analysis
c. Data Mining
d. Digital Library
c. To promote desired clinical outcomes -✔✔A nurse is reviewing a patient's pneumonia vaccination
status in the electronic medical record. The nurse determines the patient needs this vaccine before
discharge to meet the requirements of a current clinical pathway. Why would the nurse use
information systems in this manner?
a. To ensure cost effectiveness
b. To control communicable disease
c. To promote desired clinical outcomes
d. To meet requirements of the nurse practice act
b. Lack of continued support -✔✔A nursing informatics specialist at a small, rural hospital
implemented a clinical information system utilizing an electronic health record (EHR). She obtained
input from nurses regarding selection of the specific EHR. She noted that some of the nurses had
negative attitudes towards a change to the EHR, but she encouraged them to try the system and note
its benefits. She implemented the system after all nurses were trained about the EHR. There were
numerous complaints about the EHR, which the Nursing Informatics Specialist decided to ignore
since the personnel were new to the system. Which barrier to implementing technology is present in
the scenario?
a. Inadequate training
b. Lack of continued support
c. Lack of end user involvement
d. Ignoring attitudes early in the process
d. The time spent waiting for the program to register the patient could delay critical care being
delivered in a timely manner. -✔✔A computer program was implemented at a hospital that required
nurses to wait until the patient arrived in the emergency room and was registered into the program
,before orders for critical time-sensitive treatment could be written. How could this program become
a barrier to the nurses attempting to deliver patient-centered care?
a. The computer program could intimidate the nurses and cause them to shy away from the patients.
b. The time spent waiting for the program to register the patient could allow the nurses to restock
patient rooms.
c. The computer program could interest the nurses more than the patients do, thus entertaining the
nurses away from their focus on the patient.
d. The time spent waiting for the program to register the patient could delay critical care being
delivered in a timely manner.
a. Information is data that have been interpreted -✔✔How is information related to data?
a. Information is data that have been interpreted
b. Information forms the base for accurate data collection
c. Data provide an explanation of information
d. Data is constructed through information synthesis
a. The nurse can discern research findings that can be applied to practice
d. Nurses must frequently consult resources including peers and general internet searches -✔✔How
does information literacy support the use of evidence-based-practice (EBP) in nursing? Choose 2
answers
a. The nurse can discern research findings that can be applied to practice
b. Nurses consistently role-model this behavior in their practice environment
c. Nurses are comfortable in performing data base searches
d. Nurses must frequently consult resources including peers and general internet searches
a. Information system -✔✔A nurse documents care of a patient with a decubitus ulcer in the
electronic health record. Which term describes the electronic health record in this situation?
a. Information system
b. Information science
c. Information technology
d. Information processing
, b. Nurses generate knowledge as a product. -✔✔Which statement describes nurses as knowledge
workers?
a. Nurses design and maintain knowledge.
b. Nurses generate knowledge as a product.
c. Nurses evolve knowledge based on information.
d. Nurses provide efficient means of capturing knowledge.
a. Beginning Nurse -✔✔Uses information systems to manage patients
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
c. Informatics Innovator -✔✔Generates informatics theory
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist -✔✔Focuses on nursing's information needs
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
b. Experienced Nurse -✔✔Pulls trends out of data
a. Beginning Nurse
b. Experienced Nurse
c. Informatics Innovator
d. Informatics Nurse Specialist
