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Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
As a nurse practitioner, you are questioned by a patient about the
usefulness of a particular web site for health information. You do not
know the web site and have no computer available to access the site in
your office. Which of the following replies would be the most
appropriate to make to your patient?
a. “If the site showed up on your search engine- it must be
good. Go ahead and use it!”
b. “I don’t really know the site, but here are some things to
look for. You can also go to the Health on the Net Foundation and
check it out”
c. “Have any of your friends used it? What did they think?”
d. “No Internet sites have any useful information. Let me
give you some written information instead.”
e. “What does your doctor think about the site?”
Why are nurses’ natural advocates of consumer health applications?
a. With the nursing shortage, it lightens the workload
b. Nurses are more computer literate than physicians
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c. Nurses have always taken a leadership role in patient
education
d. Only nurses are exposed to consumer informatics in school
e. It’s easier to get patients to teach themselves than it is to
spend the time and teach them
A consumer health care application can be described as:
a. An intervention providing health care information through
technology
b. An outcome resulting in patient education
c. A care plan detailing the steps in teaching the patient
d. A patient’s application to be accepted into an insurance plan
e. All of the above
The four areas in which Informatics Nurse Specialists practice are:
a. Critical care units, neonatal intensive care units,
medical-surgical units, pediatric units
b. Administration, education, research, clinical practice
c. Nursing science, information science, research, computer
science
NURS 120: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
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d. Hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient clinics, mobile radiology
units
e. Long term care facilities, nursing
homes, nursing administration offices,
pediatric intensive care units
Which of the following are impediments to the successful
implementation of a computerized medical record?
a. Oversimplification of user needs
b. Oversimplification of the requirements for a new system
c. Little understanding of the manual system that the
computerized system will be replacing
d. Clinicians are not aware of what computerized medical
records can and cannot do
e. All of the above
Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital
departments into a single hospital information system?
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a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized
systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the
continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are
incompatible with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals & Health Care Organizations to maintain
specific information for billing & accreditation purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient
records
Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to
the technologist when building an integrated hospital information
system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure,
realigning traditional departments into a case management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single care model, realigning
traditional departments into a case management model
c. Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized
NURS 120: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
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Final Examination Fall (questions and answers best
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Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
As a nurse practitioner, you are questioned by a patient about the
usefulness of a particular web site for health information. You do not
know the web site and have no computer available to access the site in
your office. Which of the following replies would be the most
appropriate to make to your patient?
a. “If the site showed up on your search engine- it must be
good. Go ahead and use it!”
b. “I don’t really know the site, but here are some things to
look for. You can also go to the Health on the Net Foundation and
check it out”
c. “Have any of your friends used it? What did they think?”
d. “No Internet sites have any useful information. Let me
give you some written information instead.”
e. “What does your doctor think about the site?”
Why are nurses’ natural advocates of consumer health applications?
a. With the nursing shortage, it lightens the workload
b. Nurses are more computer literate than physicians
NURS 120: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
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,NURS 120: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
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c. Nurses have always taken a leadership role in patient
education
d. Only nurses are exposed to consumer informatics in school
e. It’s easier to get patients to teach themselves than it is to
spend the time and teach them
A consumer health care application can be described as:
a. An intervention providing health care information through
technology
b. An outcome resulting in patient education
c. A care plan detailing the steps in teaching the patient
d. A patient’s application to be accepted into an insurance plan
e. All of the above
The four areas in which Informatics Nurse Specialists practice are:
a. Critical care units, neonatal intensive care units,
medical-surgical units, pediatric units
b. Administration, education, research, clinical practice
c. Nursing science, information science, research, computer
science
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d. Hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient clinics, mobile radiology
units
e. Long term care facilities, nursing
homes, nursing administration offices,
pediatric intensive care units
Which of the following are impediments to the successful
implementation of a computerized medical record?
a. Oversimplification of user needs
b. Oversimplification of the requirements for a new system
c. Little understanding of the manual system that the
computerized system will be replacing
d. Clinicians are not aware of what computerized medical
records can and cannot do
e. All of the above
Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital
departments into a single hospital information system?
NURS 120: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
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a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized
systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the
continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are
incompatible with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals & Health Care Organizations to maintain
specific information for billing & accreditation purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient
records
Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to
the technologist when building an integrated hospital information
system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure,
realigning traditional departments into a case management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single care model, realigning
traditional departments into a case management model
c. Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized
NURS 120: Introduction to Nursing Informatics
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