NURSING INFORMATICS CHAPTER 1
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS NEW MODIFIED TESTED AND
APPROVED 2025/2026 LATEST UPDATE
Nursing informatics employs information and computer technology to
support all aspects of nursing practice, including research. Which is an
example of supporting research?
1. Development of a standardized nursing language
2. Identifying evidence of best clinical nursing practices
3. Familiarity with spreadsheets and statistics software and analysis
4. Housing collected client data within automated record systems
--CORRECT ANSWER—1
Which action indicates the nurse is functioning as a knowledge worker?
1. The nurse auscultates hypoactive bowel sounds while doing a client
assessment eight hours postoperatively after abdominal surgery and
documents the assessment in the electronic medical record.
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,2. The nurse administers four units of regular insulin to the client whose
blood glucose is 240 at 11:30 a.m. per physician's sliding scale orders
and documents it on the electronic medical administration record.
3. The nurse auscultates diminished breath sounds in a postoperative
client the morning after abdominal surgery and encourages the client to
turn, cough, and deep breathe every hour instead of every two hours.
4. The nurse obtains the client's vital signs of BP-120/82, P-112, and R-
32, totals up the intake of 1040 ml and the output of 1100 ml, and
records these data in the electronic medical record.
--CORRECT ANSWER-- 3
A disadvantage to the utilization of the electronic medical record (EMR)
includes which of the following?
1. Accessibility from several different locations simultaneously and by
different levels of providers
2. The intensive training in the beginning needed to prepare staff
members to use the EMR
3. Less time available for client care because more time is required for
documentation activity
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, 4. Inability to incorporate diagnostic images into the EMR because of
space limitations
--CORRECT ANSWER—2
A nurse manager wishes to hire a new nurse who has just graduated
from nursing school. At the beginning level of informatics
competencies, the nurse should be able to do which of the following?
1. Attain informatics nurse certification within six months of beginning
practice.
2. Input vital signs and intake and output data in the electronic medical
record.
3. Utilize the Internet to review trends in health care information
technology.
4. Use an electronic spreadsheet to create staffing rotations.
--CORRECT ANSWER—2
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PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS NEW MODIFIED TESTED AND
APPROVED 2025/2026 LATEST UPDATE
Nursing informatics employs information and computer technology to
support all aspects of nursing practice, including research. Which is an
example of supporting research?
1. Development of a standardized nursing language
2. Identifying evidence of best clinical nursing practices
3. Familiarity with spreadsheets and statistics software and analysis
4. Housing collected client data within automated record systems
--CORRECT ANSWER—1
Which action indicates the nurse is functioning as a knowledge worker?
1. The nurse auscultates hypoactive bowel sounds while doing a client
assessment eight hours postoperatively after abdominal surgery and
documents the assessment in the electronic medical record.
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,2. The nurse administers four units of regular insulin to the client whose
blood glucose is 240 at 11:30 a.m. per physician's sliding scale orders
and documents it on the electronic medical administration record.
3. The nurse auscultates diminished breath sounds in a postoperative
client the morning after abdominal surgery and encourages the client to
turn, cough, and deep breathe every hour instead of every two hours.
4. The nurse obtains the client's vital signs of BP-120/82, P-112, and R-
32, totals up the intake of 1040 ml and the output of 1100 ml, and
records these data in the electronic medical record.
--CORRECT ANSWER-- 3
A disadvantage to the utilization of the electronic medical record (EMR)
includes which of the following?
1. Accessibility from several different locations simultaneously and by
different levels of providers
2. The intensive training in the beginning needed to prepare staff
members to use the EMR
3. Less time available for client care because more time is required for
documentation activity
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, 4. Inability to incorporate diagnostic images into the EMR because of
space limitations
--CORRECT ANSWER—2
A nurse manager wishes to hire a new nurse who has just graduated
from nursing school. At the beginning level of informatics
competencies, the nurse should be able to do which of the following?
1. Attain informatics nurse certification within six months of beginning
practice.
2. Input vital signs and intake and output data in the electronic medical
record.
3. Utilize the Internet to review trends in health care information
technology.
4. Use an electronic spreadsheet to create staffing rotations.
--CORRECT ANSWER—2
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