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NURS-272: Exam 3 Questions And Correct
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What are the functions of healthcare information systems (HIS)? - answer✔They capture,
manage, and transmit information related to health of individual or activities of HC facilities
What are some examples of HIS? - answer✔Staffing, email, organizational outcomes, and
orientations
What are clinical information systems (CIS)? - answer✔Hardware and software that processes
data in the HC facility
What are some examples of CIS? - answer✔HER/EMR, decision support, order entry, etc..
What are administrative information systems (AIS)? - answer✔Extracts information and uses it
for management of daily operations
What are some examples of AIS? - answer✔Appointment scheduling and patient billing
What is nursing informatics? - answer✔Use f information and technology to support all areas of
nursing practice.
What are the benefits to nursing informatics? - answer✔1. Enhances nursing practice for
documentation, education, and quality
2. Organizes documentation in user-friendly format
3. Supports nursing, stakeholders, and the healthcare team
4. Identify, manage, develop, link information, alert and warnings
What are some attributes to nursing informatics? - answer✔1. Certified system and standard
terms (this is critical for communication and exchanging information)
2. Policies that are payment based that's "meaning use" (CMS - Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid)
3. Privacy and security (HIPAA)
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What the advantages that informatics have in nursing and HC? - answer✔1. Potential to improve
the quality, safety, and efficiency of HC for all
2. Good communication, reducing errors
3. Decreased cost and time
4. Better we access to information, improved documentation
5. Increased satisfaction/time spent with patient
6. Improved regulatory compliance
What is information literacy? - answer✔Set of abilities allowing individuals to recognize when
info is needed and how to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed info
What is the approved language for a nursing diagnosis? - answer✔NANDA
What regulates the standardized terminology for nurses? - answer✔ANA's Nursing Process
What is the nursing clinical decision support system? - answer✔Type of clinical decision support
system specific to nursing; supporting information is evidence-based
What is the nursing info system? - answer✔Type of CIS; allows nurses to document, view data,
and access info to help make decisions
What is nursing informatics? - answer✔specialty; supports nursing and health care team; id,
manage, develop/create (ex: paper to electronic docs)
What is AIS? - answer✔Administrative information system. Program to input patient info for
appointments, staff scheduling, etc
What is an order entry system? - answer✔Allows discipline to order supplies from another
department
What are monitoring systems? - answer✔Record info directly into EMR (ex: VS)
What are clinical decision support systems? - answer✔Within EHR/EMR; those documenting
will see reminders, alerts, prompts, reports, and links which help make clinical decisions at the
point of care
What is an EMR? - answer✔individual health record within a facility
What is an EHR? - answer✔health record that can be shared among multiple facilities/agencies
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What is CIS? - answer✔Clinical information systems. Computer based program used for lab,
radiology, pharmacy, social work, providers, therapies and nurses; each group can enter and
communicate data and coordinate patient care
What is HIS? - answer✔Healthcare information systems. Group of programs used w/in an
organization to support and enhance healthcare
(ex: schedules, email, PTO)
What is health informatics? - answer✔Discipline that uses technology to sort, process, organize
and retrieve info in healthcare so it can be shared among providers and consumers; FOCUS IS
ON PROVIDING OPTIMAL CARE FOR PATIENTS.
What is knowledge? - answer✔Knowing a skill
What is competence? - answer✔The ability to carry out a skill correctly
What is commitment? - answer✔Continuous learning and professional membership that supports
learning
What is the NCLEX? - answer✔Guarantees standard knowledge for an RN
What is autonomy? - answer✔The authority to make decisions about nursing practice (prioritize)
What is professionalism? - answer✔The assimilation of nursing skills and knowledge integrated
with dignity and respect for all human beings, incorporating the assumptions and values of the
profession while maintaining accountability and self awareness
What are some criteria/attributes to professionalism? - answer✔1. Education
2. Clinical judgement
3. Ethics
4. Comportment/behavior
5. Therapeutic communication
6. Accountability
7. Leadership/mentorship
8. Respect
9. Self-awareness
What is the client's view on a professional nurse? - answer✔- Good interpersonal skills
