NR 599 Final Exam
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, NR 599 Final Exam
Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into
a single hospital information system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the
continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are
incompatible with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals & Health Care Organizations to maintain
specific information for billing & accreditation purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient
records
2. Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to the
technologist when building an integrated hospital information system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure,
realigning traditional departments into a case management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single care model, realigning
traditional departments into a case management model
c. Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized
information systems, getting all departments to agree to a single
billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into a case
management model
d. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, keeping
all hospital departments within the traditional vertical structure
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, e. Allowing all departments to retain their individual information
systems, allowing all departments to have their own billing system,
keeping all hospital departments separate but equal
3. The conceptual components of informatics are:
a. Management, processing, & transformation
b. Data, information, & paradigms
c. Data, information, & knowledge
d. Management, processing, & data
e. Management, processing, & knowledge
4. Several colleges have suggested that Wikipedia™ be banned as a resource
for academic papers. Which of the following statements support that ban?
a. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered a primary source of information
b. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered an authoritative source of
information
c. Wikipedia™ is sometimes unreliable
d. Wikipedia™ allows almost anyone to edit most of its articles
e. All of the above
5. When would you use the word “and” in a literature search?
a. When you want to eliminate citations with a certain term in the title
b. When only one of multiple search terms must be in the title of the
citation
c. When all of multiple search terms must be in the title of the citation
d. When you want to index a particular article
e. When you want the abstract of the citations to be included in the
literature search
6. What is a refereed journal?
a. Any scholarly journal
b. Any journal with a title that begins with “The Journal of…”
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, NR 599 Final Exam
Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into
a single hospital information system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the
continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are
incompatible with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals & Health Care Organizations to maintain
specific information for billing & accreditation purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient
records
2. Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to the
technologist when building an integrated hospital information system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure,
realigning traditional departments into a case management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single care model, realigning
traditional departments into a case management model
c. Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized
information systems, getting all departments to agree to a single
billing procedure, realigning traditional departments into a case
management model
d. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole,
getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, keeping
all hospital departments within the traditional vertical structure
2
, e. Allowing all departments to retain their individual information
systems, allowing all departments to have their own billing system,
keeping all hospital departments separate but equal
3. The conceptual components of informatics are:
a. Management, processing, & transformation
b. Data, information, & paradigms
c. Data, information, & knowledge
d. Management, processing, & data
e. Management, processing, & knowledge
4. Several colleges have suggested that Wikipedia™ be banned as a resource
for academic papers. Which of the following statements support that ban?
a. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered a primary source of information
b. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered an authoritative source of
information
c. Wikipedia™ is sometimes unreliable
d. Wikipedia™ allows almost anyone to edit most of its articles
e. All of the above
5. When would you use the word “and” in a literature search?
a. When you want to eliminate citations with a certain term in the title
b. When only one of multiple search terms must be in the title of the
citation
c. When all of multiple search terms must be in the title of the citation
d. When you want to index a particular article
e. When you want the abstract of the citations to be included in the
literature search
6. What is a refereed journal?
a. Any scholarly journal
b. Any journal with a title that begins with “The Journal of…”
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