C468 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| GRADED A
Examples of the Nursing Process Approach: Correct Answer: Streamlines documentation of assessments and patient-related data.Provides discharge information and pertinent patient education materials and resources.Provides medication information to help prevent m...
C468 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| GRADED A
Examples of the Nursing Process Approach: Correct Answer: Streamlines
documentation of assessments and patient-related data.Provides discharge
information and pertinent patient education materials and resources.Provides
medication information to help prevent medication errors or interactions.
Examples of the Critical Pathways and Protocols Approach: Correct Answer:
Multidisciplinary team members can contribute to care plans along the care
continuum.Multidisciplinary team members can contribute to care plans along the
care continuum.Allows the multidisciplinary care team to update the plan of care
when variances in the patient's condition are noted.
Information Management: Correct Answer: seeks to provide safe patient care
through managing patient-related information to ensure that it contains the latest
data, is correct, and is readily available to providers.
Knowledge Management: Correct Answer: seeks to improve the quality of care an
organization provides through knowledge and educational information storage.
Nursing Information Systems: Correct Answer: assist nurses in providing high-
quality patient care by giving them access to pertinent patient care information and
providing the opportunity to document patient assessments, care provided,
procedures performed, and medications given. Data can be collected and stored
electronically and is available to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
TRUE Correct Answer: The Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN)
project's six competencies are patient-centered care, cooperation, evidence-based
practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. Including informatics as a
core competency has led to its increasing importance.
TRUE Correct Answer: The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform
Initiative (TIGER) calls for nursing education to keep up with rapidly changing
technology and encourages nurses' active participation in the development of
electronic records.
TRUE Correct Answer: The Institute of Medicine (IOM), which sets the goals for
undergraduate and graduate nursing education, has included informatics in its core
learning modules.
,TRUE Correct Answer: Nursing informatics includes electronic sources that
provide the nurse with information regarding professional organizations, evidence-
based practice, competencies, insurance, and licensing.
TRUE Correct Answer: Nursing informatics includes assisting with marketing
activities such as website development, media presence, and social networking.
Standard Correct Answer: typically describes procedures that all patients will
encounter, such as being weighed or having their temperature taken during a
doctor's visit
Targeted Correct Answer: geared toward people who are a subset of the general
population, such as having men undergo routine prostate exams after age 40
Personalized Correct Answer: gives information about specific conditions the
consumer has been diagnosed with such as how to treat type 2 diabetes
Tailored Correct Answer: focuses specifically on individuals based on their
specific conditions, typically gleaned from EHRs or PHRs
Evidence-based practice Correct Answer: Informatics systems can help
practitioners provide better patient outcomes by bringing
_______ to the bedside.
Quantitative research Correct Answer: Computer statistical analysis packages are
most frequently used to bring understanding ______.
Real time Correct Answer: Institutions can use informatics systems to perform
research in ________, which allows the institutions to almost instantly know the
results of particular interventions.
Effectiveness research Correct Answer: The federal government has invested $1.1
billion in the ______ concept because it allows practitioners to quickly compare
interventions and treatments to determine which is the best and most cost-effective
methodology.
It would track the locations of the reports and synthesize the data you collected
about the incidents. Correct Answer: You are an ER nurse in a quiet suburban
community that hasn't had many public health crises during your 10-year career. It
, is Christmas, and you have been asked to be on duty during the holiday. All other
staff members are out on holiday. At 10:00 a.m., you receive a phone call from a
family with symptoms of hemorrhagic fever. Within minutes, you receive another
call from another family across town that has similar symptoms. Within an hour,
you have five reports of families or individuals with symptoms of hemorrhagic
fever throughout town. How would your hospital's informatics system help you
cope with these reports and begin problem solving?
It would track the locations of the reports and synthesize the data you collected
about the incidents.
It would automatically contact and conduct detailed interviews and full
assessments of the victims.
It would allow you to contact each patient and determine how well he or she is
doing.
It would contact other employees to come in to the hospital and help.
working through low health and computer literacy levels in GSGH patients Correct
Answer: As a nurse informatics specialist at Good Samaritan General Hospital,
you have been seeking ways to engage patients more in their health care after they
leave GSGH. Survey after survey has demonstrated that GSGH patients are among
the least health and computer literate in the area. You decide to develop an at-home
personal health tool that can be installed on any personal computer. It allows
patients to keep track of their health and communicate closely with their providers
after their hospital stay. You are excited about the opportunity and potential of this
new development. Upper management is also very excited and has thrown their
support behind it after seeing it test very well. However, what hurdle are you most
concerned about overcoming prior to the implementation of the system?
making the program compatible for both Macs and PCs
obtaining GSGH management's support for the move
working through low health and computer literacy levels in GSGH patients
getting your program to work correctly
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