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Nursing Informatics
Chapter 6 Overview of Nursing Informatics
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
06/05/2012

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Nursing informatics focuses on 
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[image] Concepts of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom 
[image] Ergonomics, human-computer interaction and knowledge
[image] Usability, data, and nursing judgment
[image] Information literacy, solutions and theoretical information foundations
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Nursing Informatics is an area of study who affects all of the following except
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[image] Patients
[image] Management
[image] Physicians
[image] Nurses
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To improve the health of communities, families and individuals by optimizing management and communication is a goal of
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[image] Nursing judgment
[image] Nursing usability
[image] Nursing informatics
[image] Critical thinking
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Which definition differentiates data from information? 
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[image] Data is presented structurally and information is unstructured
[image] Data is presented in an organized manner
[image] Data is objective while information is subjective
[image] Data are entities that are interpreted
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Data can be used for 
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[image] Decision making purposes
[image] Case studies
[image] Systematic studies
[image] All of the above
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The best definition of nursing informatics is
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[image] An accumulation of research related to nursing theory
[image] An integration of nursing science, computer science and information science.
[image] An information system that collects and processes data.
[image] A computer system designed to streamline collection of data.
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The use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems is the definition of
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[image] Information
[image] Wisdom
[image] Data
[image] Usability
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The unique combination of sciences creates a blend that is greater than the sum of its parts this definition can describe an unique component of 
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[image] Nursing wisdom
[image] Cognitive science
[image] Nursing informatics
 [image] Information science
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Is an elemental process within informatics where one can file, store, and manipulate data 
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[image] Information technology
[image]  Information structure
[image] Information communication
[image] Information management
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Choose the best example that would describe the concept of usability 
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[image] Making a cake
[image] Downloading music on a MP3 player
[image] Dialing a phone
 [image] Programming the VCR
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Which concept is an important consideration the Informatics Nurse Specialist must consider regarding the safety of the user. When developing information structures and solutions 
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[image] Efficiency
[image] Mobility
[image] Size of lettering
[image] All of the above
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The goal of nursing informatics is 
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[image] To improve health by optimizing information management and communication
[image] To streamline nurses work and promote the use of non-licensed personnel
[image] To provide a scientific basis for nursing practice
[image] To identify and quantify nursing interventions.
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The difference between knowledge and wisdom is that 
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[image] Knowledge is a collection of data and wisdom is a collection of ideas.
[image] Wisdom requires an ethical framework for understanding.
[image] An information system must first process data into knowledge and then wisdom.
[image] Wisdom is knowledge that is applied in an appropriate manner.
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The ease of learning a computer application, and other issues of human performance is know as 
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[image] Interoperability
[image] Usability
[image] Ergonomics
[image] Interface
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The key concepts of nurse, person, health and environment are known as 
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[image] Nursing practice modules
[image] The lifecycle of nursing
[image] The nursing process
[image] The metaparadigm
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A decision support system is 
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[image] An information system that collects and processes data and information
[image] A critical thinking tool to support and manage nursing practice
[image] A rule based system that uses a knowledge base and a set of rules to make action recommendations
[image]  A computerized application designed to support nursing administration and population health management
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A nurse researcher is examining whether trauma patients are stabilized more rapidly using bolus or continuous infusion of diuretics.  Her examination involves assessing values in the electronic health record, monitoring vital signs and treating the patient.  This kind of work is best characterized by which concept level in nursing informatics? 
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[image] Data
[image] Information
[image] Knowledge
[image] All of the above
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Structured languages, also called taxonomies, are critical tools for nursing.  Which of these is NOT an example of a current taxonomy?
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[image] SNOMED-CT
[image] NANDIC
[image] ICNP
 [image] LOINC
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In addition to supporting direct provision of care, nursing informatics also supports nursing administration, nursing education and nursing research. 
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[image] TRUE
[image] FALSE
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The terms nursing informatics and healthcare informatics are interchangeable. 
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[image] TRUE
[image] FALSE
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Data that are interpreted, organized and structured are referred to as information.

 

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[image] TRUE
[image] FALSE
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Wisdom is the appropriate application of knowledge to a specific situation.
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[image] TRUE
[image] FALSE
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