Informatics and Nursing Opportunities
and Challenges 6th Edition Sewell Test
Bank
TEST BANK
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, Informatics and Nursing Opportunities and
Challenges 6th Edition Sewell Test Bank
Chapter 1
1. After teaching a class about informatics, the instructor determines that the
teaching was successful when the students define informatics as which of the
following?
A) Use of computers
Use of information
B) technology Management of
information Access to the
C) Internet
2. A strategic plan for the nationwide implementation of health information
technology includes which of the following?
A) Discouraging the use of personal electronic health records
B) Developing a collaborative governance to support information use for
population
health
C) Advocating for statewide adoption of electronic health
record D) Limiting the use of telehealth systems
3. Which of the following would a nurse identify as the current focus of today's
practice informatics?
A) Capturing data at the point of
care Performing secondary data
B) analysis Using aggregated data
Making decisions based on data
C)
4. A nursing student is reviewing information about early computerized
clinical information systems. Which of the following would the student
identify as characteristic?
A) Implementation to perform two or three functions
Ability to share information among several
B) departments Creation of different software systems
for different areas Entry of data occurring only once
C)
5. When describing the benefits of informatics to a group of agency staff, which of
the following would the presenter identify as one of the primary benefits?
A) Increase usability of data
Promote cost-saving
B) Promote time-saving
Allow identification of
C) patterns
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