WGU D220 Nursing Informatics Pre-Assessment Exam
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1. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA): **Authorized INCENTIVE PAYMENTS
to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals for adopting & using interoperable
Health Information Technology and EHR's.
The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs and promote
economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession. (3)To provide
investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring techno-logical advances in
science and health. (4) To invest in transportation, environmentalprotection, and other
infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits.
(5) To stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoidreductions
in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.
2. AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality): Produced evidencemaking
healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and affordability
3. Asynchoronous Applications: No contact with patient for data collection. EX:Remote pt
monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data w/ providers. STORE
& FORWARD APPS (ex: photos)
4. Administrative Information System: can include registration and scheduling; tracking
through admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff sched-uling; financial or
,accounting systems; risk management; payroll and human re- sources; quality assurance;
and contract management functions.
5. Affordable Care Act: law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost
reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill
of Rights, increasing the number of insured persons.
6. Alarm Fatique: Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing ordelaying
their response to the alarm.
7. ANA (American Nurses Association): Professional organization for all RNs.Concerned
with licensure, collective bargaining and education
8. Analytics: A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitativeanalysis,
explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drivedecisions and
actions.
9. Audit trail: a report that traces who has accessed electronic information, when
information was accessed, and whether any information was changed
10. Authentication: A method for confirming users' identities
11. Authorization: The process of giving someone permission to do or have some-thing
12. Barcode Scanning Technology: Scans drug and patients wristband to verifymedication
order, inventory control, + pt identification, correct med admin
13. Big Data: a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and un-
structured data, which cannot be analyzed without the use of information technology
,14. Bioinformatics: application of mathematics and computer science to store,retrieve,
and analyze biological data
15. Biometrics: the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, suchas a
fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting
16. Business Continuity Plan: A plan for how an organization will recover and restore
partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predeterminedtime after a
disaster or extended disruption
17. Business Intelligence: Information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers,
customers, competitors, partners, and industries that analyzes patterns,trends, and
relationships for strategic decision making
18. Change Control Board (CCB): A committee that evaluates the worthiness of aproposed
change and either approves or rejects the proposed change.
19. Chief Nursing Officer (CNO): The senior manager (usually a registered nursewith
advanced education and extensive experience) responsible for administering patient care
services
20. Clinical Care Classification (CCC): "Two interrelated taxonomies, the CCCof Nursing
Diagnoses and Outcomes and the CCC of Nursing Interventions andActions, that provide
a standardized framework for documenting patient care in hospitals, home health
agencies, ambulatory care clinics, and other healthcare settings"
21. CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry): An order entry and decision support
system that allows direct entry of orders and immediately shared w/ others
22. Change Management: The process, tools and techniques that help people
implement changes to achieve a desired outcome. (Supports the adoption of a
medication Administration System)
, 23. Change Control: Helps to prioritize limited resources and ensures system
standards are upheld.
24. Connected health: a model of health care delivery using technology to provideservices
including information and education.
Technology assisted healthcare is delivered between at least 2 points involvingeither
asynchronous or synchronous exchange.
25. Consumer Health Informatics: Use of electronic info & communication to improve
medical outcomes & healthcare decision making from pt perspective. Patient view and
structures and process that enable consumer to manage their owncare.
26. Clinical Research Informatics: Discovery and management of new knowledgepertinent
to health and disease from clinical trials via secondary data use.
