FINAL EXAM, INFORMATICS FINAL,
399 11-14, MODULE 8 QUIZ -
INFORMATICS, FINALREVIEW
INFORMATICS, 399 15&16, 399 17-
20, 399 15&16, NURSING
HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, CH.8
LEGISLATIVE ASPECTS OF NURSING
INFORMATICS: HITECH EXAM WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, one
way to balance the competing cultural values of blamelessness
versus accountability is to establish a "just culture."
T/F correct answers >> True
Although nurses have an ethical duty to ensure patient safety,
increasing demands on professionals in complex and fast-paced
healthcare environments may lead to workarounds. What is a
workaround?
A practice that deviates from accepted and expected practice
protocols
B.
A shortcut to save time
,C.
An inappropriate action or omission of appropriate actions
D.
All of these are correct correct answers >> D
Clinical decision making is guided by targeted information
delivery ensuring that the five rights of clinical decision support
are implemented: the right information provided to the right
person in the right format through the right channel at the right
time in workflow.
T/F correct answers >> True
Integrating technology into the medication administration cycle
helps to reduce errors by:
A.
performing electronic checks against a database of safe
medication administration parameters and providing alerts.
B.
increasing the workload and efficiency of clinicians.
C.
Employing human factors engineering principles to streamline
workflow processes.
D.
All of these are correct. correct answers >> A
,Multiple false alarms may lead to alarm fatigue and compromise
patient safety by slow response or no response to physiologic
alarms. Strategies to improve alarm response include:
A.
increasing the sensitivity of the physiologic monitors and feeding
alarms directly to beepers or phones carried by professionals.
B.
feeding alarm data into a reporting database for further analysis.
C.
discouraging healthcare professionals from rounding with
physicians because they are often guilty of ignoring alarms.
D.
All of these are correct. correct answers >> B
Radio frequency identifier (RFID) technology may gradually
replace bar-code technology in the medication administration
cycle because RFID provides:
A.
opportunities to check patient identification before administration
of the medication.
B.
replacement of bar codes in blood banking.
C.
reduced potential that a counterfeit medication is inadvertently
introduced into the supply.
D.
, All of these are correct. correct answers >> C
Smart pumps are designed for safe administration of high-hazard
drugs and to reduce adverse drug events during intravenous
medication administration. What happens when a hard alarm is
generated by a smart pump?
A.
A licensed clinician or a pharmacist can override a hard alarm and
administer the drug as programmed.
B.
Members of the biomedical engineering department can
reprogram the pump to avoid these nuisance alarms.
C.
The nurse must call the physician for a verbal order to turn off the
smart pump technology and administer the drug as ordered.
D.
The pump must be reprogrammed so that the rate and dose for
administration of the high-hazard intravenous drug falls within the
facility's safe infusion parameters. correct answers >> D
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
mandated the creation of a national database of medical errors
and funded several organizations to analyze these data with the
goal of developing shared learning to prevent medical errors.
T/F correct answers >> True