NR599 NURSING INFORMATICS
TESTBANK WITH ALL CORRECT
ANSWERS
1. Which statement indicates the appropriate level of informatics
competencies to the correct nurse?
a. A nurse informatics specialist extrapolates data to develop best practice
model for indwelling catheter care.
b. The novice nurse using a spreadsheet to document medication reactions.
c. An experienced staff nurse creates databases employing SNOMED.
d. A beginning nurse utilizes the Internet to integrate multidisciplinary
languages.
a. A nurse informatics specialist extrapolates data to develop best
practice model for indwelling catheter care.
2. Describe at least three factors in the current healthcare delivery system
that drive the implementation of
information technology in the acute care setting.
a. Patient safety
b. Nursing shortage
c. Evidence-based practice
d. Increased numbers of digital natives in nursing practice
d. Increased numbers of digital natives in nursing practice
3. Which action indicates the nurse is functioning as a knowledge worker?
,a. 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.
b. 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.
c. 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.
d. 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.
c. 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. A disadvantage to the utilization of the electronic medical record (EMR)
includes which of the following?
a. Accessibility from several different locations simultaneously and by
different levels of providers
b. The intensive training in the beginning needed to prepare staff members
to use the EMR
c. Less time available for client care because more time is required for
documentation activity
d. Inability to incorporate diagnostic images into the EMR because of space
limitations
, b. The intensive training in the beginning needed to prepare staff members
to use the EMR
5. Over the next few years, nursing informatics and other health informatics
disciplines will crisscross, resulting
in more interdisciplinary projects. This statement is true because of which of
the following reasons?
a. Nurse informatics specialists will work collaboratively with other disciplines
to develop user-friendly systems.
b. Nurse informatics specialists will work with other disciplines in an attempt
to gain control over the use
of the health care technology.
c. Nurse informatics specialists understand all of the disciplines and are able
to effect changes in
technology.
d. Nurse informatics specialists are knowledgeable about the needs of the
typical consumer of
technology.
a. Nurse informatics specialists will work collaboratively with other disciplines
to develop user-friendly systems.
6. The nurse understands that nursing informatics is recognized as a
specialty area of practice by which
statement?
a. Research priorities for nursing informatics include the development of a
standard nursing language and the development of databases for clinical
information.
b. A formal educational program at the master's level must be completed
before a nurse is eligible to sit
for the credentialing examination.
TESTBANK WITH ALL CORRECT
ANSWERS
1. Which statement indicates the appropriate level of informatics
competencies to the correct nurse?
a. A nurse informatics specialist extrapolates data to develop best practice
model for indwelling catheter care.
b. The novice nurse using a spreadsheet to document medication reactions.
c. An experienced staff nurse creates databases employing SNOMED.
d. A beginning nurse utilizes the Internet to integrate multidisciplinary
languages.
a. A nurse informatics specialist extrapolates data to develop best
practice model for indwelling catheter care.
2. Describe at least three factors in the current healthcare delivery system
that drive the implementation of
information technology in the acute care setting.
a. Patient safety
b. Nursing shortage
c. Evidence-based practice
d. Increased numbers of digital natives in nursing practice
d. Increased numbers of digital natives in nursing practice
3. Which action indicates the nurse is functioning as a knowledge worker?
,a. 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.
b. 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.
c. 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.
d. 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.
c. 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. A disadvantage to the utilization of the electronic medical record (EMR)
includes which of the following?
a. Accessibility from several different locations simultaneously and by
different levels of providers
b. The intensive training in the beginning needed to prepare staff members
to use the EMR
c. Less time available for client care because more time is required for
documentation activity
d. Inability to incorporate diagnostic images into the EMR because of space
limitations
, b. The intensive training in the beginning needed to prepare staff members
to use the EMR
5. Over the next few years, nursing informatics and other health informatics
disciplines will crisscross, resulting
in more interdisciplinary projects. This statement is true because of which of
the following reasons?
a. Nurse informatics specialists will work collaboratively with other disciplines
to develop user-friendly systems.
b. Nurse informatics specialists will work with other disciplines in an attempt
to gain control over the use
of the health care technology.
c. Nurse informatics specialists understand all of the disciplines and are able
to effect changes in
technology.
d. Nurse informatics specialists are knowledgeable about the needs of the
typical consumer of
technology.
a. Nurse informatics specialists will work collaboratively with other disciplines
to develop user-friendly systems.
6. The nurse understands that nursing informatics is recognized as a
specialty area of practice by which
statement?
a. Research priorities for nursing informatics include the development of a
standard nursing language and the development of databases for clinical
information.
b. A formal educational program at the master's level must be completed
before a nurse is eligible to sit
for the credentialing examination.
