Exam 1 Study Guide Questions And All Actual Answers.
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NURS 6675
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NURS 6675
What is clinical informatics? - Answer Ways information is used in patient care
What motive is there for battling fragmentation in health care? - Answer Reduces risks for poor outcomes
How do older adults benefit from clinical informatics? Select all that apply. - Answer Increased pr...
Exam 1 Study Guide Questions And All
Actual Answers.
What is clinical informatics? - Answer Ways information is used in patient care
What motive is there for battling fragmentation in health care? - Answer Reduces risks for poor
outcomes
How do older adults benefit from clinical informatics? Select all that apply. - Answer Increased
presence at preventative appointments
Decreased costs
Which is essential in the management and application of patient-care technology? - Answer Use
technology to help with effective communication in all healthcare settings.
What are the most commonly accessed clinical guidelines? Select all that apply. - Answer Colorectal
cancer screening
Hypertension
Diabetes
Regarding nursing guidelines, how do clinical informatics help nurses? Select all that apply. - Answer
Nurses can use the most recent version of guidelines.
They no longer require nurses to carry around guidelines.
How has collaboration changed because of clinical informatics? Select all that apply. - Answer It is
easier to access information through various handheld devices.
There is better communication between providers.
Collaboration is now done through portals and EMRs
Patients can access their own records easier.
, How did computers first become integral in the healthcare field? - Answer Use of early computers
helped organize data.
When a healthcare provider's office installs a new appointment system, how does this improve
efficiency? - Answer Defragmentation
Charles Babbage started construction on the first mechanical computer in 1821, known as the
"Analytical Engine." - Answer true
Match the term with its correct definition. - Answer clinical informatics - study and practice
data - facts and statistics
fragmentation - poor quality
nursing informatics - specialty
When fragmentation of medical information occurs, which risky situations can result? Select all that
apply. - Answer *Patients at high risk for multiple hospital readmissions
*Patients who require referrals to specialists
*Poor outcomes for patients with multiple or chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus
*Young children acquiring childhood diseases
Patients with medication orders based on history of symptoms
Handheld devices make applications for quick and easy access to the latest in evidence-based
recommendations for patient care. - Answer true
What are other methods nurses can use to increase their knowledge other than by CEUs? Select all that
apply. - Answer Talking to physicians
Online courses
*Web conferencesrue
*Skype
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