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Quiz 1 Flashcards

1
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When did the Mann Gulch fire happen?

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August 5, 1949

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2
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How many fired from the Mann Gulch fire?

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13 men, 12 smokejumpers and 1 fireguard with the US Forest Service

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What book was based off the Mann Gulch fire?

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Young Men and Fire by Norman MacLean

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4
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How did the Mann Gulch fire start?

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a lightening storm

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5
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Who was the foreman in the Mann Gulch fire?

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Wag Dodge

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6
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Why didn’t the smokejumpers call for help?

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Their radio chute didn’t open, and it crashed.

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What is a “ten o’clock fire?”

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a fire that would be beaten by ten o’clock in the AM of the day they jumped

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8
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What was the smokejumpers’ escape route?

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The river

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Of the 16 men who fought the Mann Gulch fire, who survived?

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Robert Salle and Walter Rumsey, men who made it over the crest, and Wag Dodge who made the escape fire

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10
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What is sensemaking?

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the process through which the fluid, multilayered world is given order, within which people can orient themselves, find purpose, and take effective action

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11
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What the phrase “when you are lost, any map will do” refer to?

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The reconnaissance group of soldiers lost in the Alps on a training mission

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12
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What is cosmology episode?

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Sudden loss of meaning

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What is Weick’s “recipe” for the collapse of sensemaking?

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  • thrust ppl into unfamiliar roles
  • leave some key roles unfilled
  • make the task more ambiguous
  • discredit the role system
  • make all of these changes in a context in which small things can combine into something monstrous
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14
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What did Don Berwick mention that he and his wife needed from the hospital?

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  • safety
  • consistent, reliable information based on science
  • respect for privacy, personal attention, and timely care
  • continuity
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15
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According to Karl Weick, why do organizations unravel?

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“Because they no longer make sense of the world”

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16
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What are the four ways in which organizations can be made more resilient?

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  • improvisation
  • virtual role systems
  • attitude of wisdom
  • respectful interactions
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17
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What are the two levels of change Don Berwick mentions?

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Preconditions and designs

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18
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What are the five preconditions to sensemaking?

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  • need to face reality
  • drop the Pulaskis
  • stay in formation
  • talk to each other and listen
  • leadership
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19
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What is “forcing function?”

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Not allowing for choice (i.e. airplane bathrooms)

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20
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What are the three primary design elements of health care’s escape fire?

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  • access
  • science
  • relationships
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21
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What is the first element of Don Berwick’s escape fire for total access?

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24/7/365

22
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What are the four properties of interaction?

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  • to regard information transfer as a key form of care
  • interactions should be tailored to a patients’ needs
  • the patient is the source of all control
  • interactions we nurture should be transparent
23
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What is the definition of informatics?

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term used to describe the science of information management in health care

24
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What is health informatics defined as?

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information science
cognitive science
computer science
disciplinary science

25
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What are the core elements of informatics?

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the DIKW paradigm and the Foundation of Knowledge model

26
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Which part of the DIKW paradigm becomes information when given context?

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information

27
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Which part of the DIKW paradigm becomes knowledge when given meaning?

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information

28
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Which part of the DIKW paradigm becomes wisdom when given insight?

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wisdom

29
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Which part of the DIKW paradigm becomes decisions when given purpose?

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decisions

30
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What is at the base of the Foundation of Knowledge model?

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bits, bytes (chunks of information), data and information

31
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What are the cones of the Foundation of Knowledge model?

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knowledge acquisition, knowledge generation, and knowledge dissemination

32
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What is at the intersection of the three cones in the Foundation of Knowledge model?

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knowledge processing

33
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What does the transparency in the Foundation of Knowledge model suggest?

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as knowledge grows and expands, its use
becomes more transparent—a person uses this knowledge during practice without even being consciously aware of which
aspect of knowledge is being used at any given moment.

34
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In what ways can healthcare professionals be described?

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Knowledge workers***
Knowledge acquirers
Knowledge users
Knowledge engineers
Knowledge managers
Knowledge developers and generators
35
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What is the Knowledge Worker Knowledge Enhancement Process?

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where knowledge workers actively seek, apply, embed, and share newly acquired knowledge with others

36
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How can knowledge have ongoing value?

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Knowledge must be viable (knowledge viability)

37
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What is knowledge viability?

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applications (most technology based) that offer easily accessible, accurate, and timely information obtained from a variety of resources and methods and presented in a manner that provides the necessary elements to generate new knowledge.

38
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What is the highest form of common sense?

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wisdom

39
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What is the difference between wisdom and knowledge?

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Knowledge abounds with others’ thoughts and information, whereas wisdom is focused on one’s own mind and the synthesis of experience, insight, understanding, and knowledge

40
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What is data mining?

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exploration of large amounts of data to look for patterns in the data that may provide insights and new understandings of situations

41
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As more healthcare facilities and professional practices embrace the use of EHRs, what happens to data mining?

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opportunities for data mining will increase

42
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What is informatics competency?

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the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform specific informatics tasks

43
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What are the five domains for informatics competencies for healthcare workers?

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I. Health information literacy and skills
II. Health informatics skills using the EHR
III. Privacy and confidentiality of health information
IV. Health information and data technical security
V. Basic computer literacy skills (p. 6)

44
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What does HIPAA stand for?

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

45
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What does HITECH stand for?

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Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act

46
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What is ethics?

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process of systematically examining varying viewpoints related to moral questions of right and wrong

47
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What are morals?

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social convention about right and wrong human conduct that is so widely shared that it forms a stable (although usually incomplete) communal consensus

48
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What are the four guiding principles of ethics?

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(1) respect for autonomy
(2) nonmaleficence
(3) beneficence
(4) justice

49
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What is FDA?

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Food and Drug Administration

50
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What is HHS?

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

51
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What is ONC?

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Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information

Technology

52
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What is PHI?

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Protected Health Information

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