Nursing Informatics Flashcards
The input device displays the result of the processing of raw data that is entered in the computer through an output device.
False- Output device
It was the first electronic computer introduced in the United States in 1930.
Differential Analyzer
The following statements are true about Nursing and the Computer, EXCEPT:
The following statements are true about Nursing and the Computer, EXCEPT:
Nursing does not require computer aid for better care and treatment of the patient.
This device used 9 different ivory strips or bones marked with numbers to multiply and divide.
Napiers Bones
It was a digital MECHANICAL CALCULATOR which was called the stepped reckoner as instead of gears it was made of fluted drums.
Leibnitz wheel
This is also known as Arithmetic Machine or Adding Machine.
Pascaline
In 1944, this computer was built as a partnership between IBM and Harvard. It was the first programmable digital computer.
Mark 1
Motherboard is a computer hardware
True
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
-There are six generations of computers.
- 5 generations
Who invented the manually-operated calculating device used for multiplication and division and the first to use the decimal point.
John Napier
It was a mechanical computer which could perform simple calculations. It was a steam driven calculating machine designed to solve tables of numbers like logarithm tables.
Difference Engine
This machine was used in the 1890 U.S. Census.
Tabulating Machine
He is known as “Father of Modern Computer”.
Charles Babbage
It is said that ___________ invented Abacus around 4,000 years ago.
the Chinese
He planned to develop a machine that could perform calculations involving large numbers in 1937.
Howard Aiken
Give 3 main computer componnts except Primary and Secondary Memory. In any order
- Input Devices
- Output Devices
- CPU- Central Processing Unit.
The first counting device was used by the primitive people. They used ___________ as counting tools.
sticks, stones, bones
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
Differential Analyzer was the first electronic computer introduced in the United States in 2010
- in 1930
Abacus is still used in some countries like China, ________ and Japan.
Russia
The history of computer begins with the birth of ____________ which is believed to be the first computer.
abacus
The operations of computer components. In order: (Wrong spelling is considerd incorrect)
Inputting
Storing
Processing
Outputting
Controlling
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
The Analytical engine was also developed by Charles Babbage in 1995.
He was a German mathematician-philosopher who improved Pascal’s invention in 1673,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
He was an American statistician who invented the Tabulating Machine in 1890.
Herman Hollerith
At the machine level, computers cannot understand English or any other languages. True or False
True
The following are examples of software applications installed in your computer/smartphones, EXCEPT:
www.csablms.neolms.com
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
Nurses need to have an advanced understanding of the issues
A software offered free of charge, but without the freedom to modify the source code and redistribute the changes.
Freeware
Fundamental component of a computer program that is created by a programmer. It can be read and easily understood by a human being.
Source Code
The following statements are true, EXCEPT
the purpose of software is to translate machine language into human language
- It should be “Translate instructions created in human language into machine language.”
Any software satisfying the open software initiative’s definition is called Open Source. True or False
True
The following criteria about open source is true, EXCEPT:
Hardware
The following are the FOUR F’s of FREE Software, EXCEPT:
Freedom to destroy others reputation
FOUR F’s
1.) Freedom to use
2.) Freedom to study
3.) Freedom to redistribute
4.) Freedom to improve the software in any way they wish
The following are examples of hardware, EXCEPT:
Adobe Flash Player
If a customer continues to use the product after a short trial period, or wishes to use additional features, they are not required to pay a specified, usually nominal, license fee.YOU BUY” basis
False
- required to pay
“TRY BEFORE YOU BUY” basis
Shareware
This is defined as the general term applied to the instructions that direct the computers’ hardware to perform work.
Software
The following are examples of freeware, EXCEPT:
wikipedia
