Chapter 6 Flashcards
Approximately how many Americans rely on the Internet when choosing a school for themselves or a child?
a. 10 million c. 21 million
b. 17 million d. 28 million
B: The PEW Internet & American Life Project found that approximately 17 million Americans rely on the Internet when choosing a school for themselves or a child. In general, a total of 21 million Americans rely on the Internet in a crucial or important way for career training.
A nurse manager tells the staff that there will be an increasing use of nursing informatics in the clinical setting. The nurse manager explains that, according to the 1998 definition formulated by the International Medical Informatics Association-Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI), nursing informatics is defined as:
a. a formal educational program in nursing informatics or a graduate program with a nursing informatics focus by an institution of higher learning.
b. differentiated practice representative of the specialty and recognized for certification by at least one organized body through external testing.
c. the integration of nursing, its information, and information management with information processing and communication technology to support the health of people worldwide.
d. a designation applied to any nurses who have successfully educated themselves using formal and/or informal resources and taken a credentialing test for specialty designation.
C: The IMIA-NI’s definition of nursing informatics is the integration of nursing, its information, and information management with information processing and communication technology to support the health of people worldwide.
Nurses use informatics in order to:
a. play computer games for entertainment.
b. foster collaboration among nurses and others who are interested in nursing informatics.
c. provide management training for nurses interested in communication technology.
d. substitution, innovation, and transformation of patient care, nursing administration, or educational preparation.
D: Nurses use informatics for substitution, innovation, transformation of patient care, nursing administration, or educational preparation.
The Informatics Nurse Specialist is expected to:
a. demonstrate the competencies enumerated in the Standard of Practice for Nursing Informatics, as outlined by the ANA.
b. serve as the department’s IT go-to person.
c. have a bachelor’s degree in nursing informatics.
d. share knowledge and best practices of informatics by teaching seminars and holding training sessions for hospital employees.
A: The Informatics Nurse Specialist is expected to demonstrate the competencies enumerated in the Standard of Practice for Nursing Informatics as outlined by the ANA (2008).
Interoperability is:
a. the success of the health team in working cooperatively to address patient health care needs.
b. hospital management’s means of communicating directives and protocols to staff.
c. the integration of differing health care systems, such as paper charts, point-of-care data entry, PDAs, and medication orders, to all function together to increase patient health and reduce provider error.
d. the ability of a computer to connect with other computers in various settings in a secure, accurate, and efficient way without special effort on the part of the user and without any restricted access or implementation.
D: Interoperability refers to the ability of a computer to connect with other computers in various settings in a secure, accurate, and efficient way without special effort on the part of the user and without any restricted access or implementation.
Many industries have reaped the benefits of their Information Technology (IT) investments. The adoption and diffusion of information systems in the health care arena has been growing:
a. more slowly. c. twice as fast.
b. more quickly. d. about the same.
A: According to Menachemi, Randeree, Burke, and Ford (2008), the adoption and diffusion of information systems in the health care arena has been growing more slowly than in other sectors.
The position of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was created through an Executive Order in:
a. 2000. c. 2004.
b. 2001. d. 2010.
C: The position of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was created through an Executive Order in 2004.
A nurse is helping implement the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) sweeping quality initiative for reform of the health care system. The nurse is focusing on the recommendation that requires care to be based on continuous healing relationships. In order to do this, which of the following should occur?
a. Access to care should be provided over the Internet, by telephone, and by other means in addition to face-to-face visits
b. Care should be based on the best available scientific knowledge and not vary illogically from clinician to clinician
c. Information should be available to patients and their families that allows them to make informed decisions
d. Health system should not waste resources or patient time
A: Care based on continuous healing relationships is characterized by access to care 24 hours a day, every day, provided over the Internet, by telephone, and by other means in addition to face-to-face visits. The recommendation for evidence-based decision making is characterized by receiving care based on the best available scientific knowledge. The need for transparency implies health care systems should make information available to patients and their families. Continuous decrease in waste is characterized by the health system’s not wasting resources or patient’s time.
Which group offered the following definition of nursing informatics? “Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom into nursing practice.”
a. AMIA c. NSNA
b. ANCC d. ANA
D: This is the ANA’s definition of nursing informatics.
The Informatics Nurse Specialist functions in the role of:
a. entrepreneur, patient advocate, ethics committee member, and lobbyist.
b. policy developer, patient advocate, social worker, and researcher.
c. project manager, consultant, educator, and researcher.
d. development supporter, physician advocate, ethics committee member, and lobbyist.
C: The Informatics Nurse Specialist may function in the role of project manager, consultant, educator, researcher, development supporter, policy developer, and entrepreneur.
QSEN is an initiative focused on:
a. computer literacy for nurses.
b. reform in nursing education in the areas of quality and safety.
c. statistics for nurses working in environmental health care.
d. improving patient satisfaction in the areas of safety and wellness.
B: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) was developed as part of a Robert Wood Johnson-funded project designed to facilitate reform in nursing education in the areas of quality and safety. QSEN is a comprehensive resource for quality and safety education for nurses.
An RN asks a nurse educator how long graduate studies in nursing informatics have been available. The nurse educator explains that the first master’s programs in nursing informatics was established at the University of Maryland in:
a. 1989. c. 1994.
b. 1992. d. 1998.
A: The first master’s program in nursing informatics (NI) was established at the University of Maryland in 1989, followed by a doctoral program in 1992.
A nurse wishes to gain more knowledge about informatics in an informal manner. The nurse understands that this can be done through:
a. seminars and scholarly journals.
b. master’s program in nursing informatics.
c. doctoral program in nursing informatics.
d. bachelor’s program in computer technology.
A: Seminars, annual conferences, joining nursing informatics groups, and subscribing to scholarly journals are all informal ways to pursue education in nursing informatics. Master’s, doctoral, and MBA programs describe formal education.
A nurse returns to practice after 15 years in retirement. Her life savings became depleted due to several poor investments and an Internet scam. It has been several years since the nurse worked on a patient care unit. During orientation the nurse asked the instructor, “Are patient charts still kept at the front desk?” The best response by the instructor would be that the hospital has integrated informatics into patient care and they now use:
a. CIS. c. FAX.
b. EHR. d. e-mail.
B: The instructor would inform the nurse that the hospital now uses electronic health records (EHR). Clinical information systems (CIS) consist of a collection of software programs and associated hardware that supports the entry, retrieval, update, and analysis of patient care information and associated clinical information related to patient care. FAX machines and e-mail are not patient records but tools for communicating.
A client is concerned about whether private matters shared between the client and the health care workers will be disclosed to others. The nurse understands that the act of limiting disclosure of a client’s private matters is known as which of the following?
a. Privacy c. Confidentiality
b. Security d. Identifier
C: Confidentiality refers to the act of limiting disclosure of private matters. Privacy refers to the right of an individual to keep information about oneself from being disclosed to anyone. Security refers to the means to control access and protect information from accidental or intentional disclosure to unauthorized persons and the alteration, destruction, or loss of information. A person’s computer identity can be determined by many types of data in addition to common identifiers such as name and number.
