Deck 7: Informatics in Public Health Nursing

Question 1

One of the first nurses to collect statistical data was:

A) Martha Rogers
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Lillian Wald
D) Virginia Henderson

Answer 1

B

Question 2

One use of informatics in public health nursing is to:

A) Mitigate errors
B) Influence hospital administrators
C) Facilitate telehealth
D) Promote health

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Technology affords public health nurses a better way of:

A) Contacting appropriate agencies in the government
B) Financially supporting management of disease
C) Systematically collecting and analyzing data
D) Addressing disparities in the community

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Data that are interpreted, organized, or structured for use is known as:

A) Technology
B) Informatics
C) Information
D) Mining

Question 5

A public health nurse enters a client's pulse into the patient electronic record. This pulse is known as:

A) Knowledge
B) Information
C) Bits
D) Data

Question 6

A public health nurse receives a transmission from a client's home in the home office where they work. The transmission is of a wound that has not been healing. The home care nurse is able to observe the skin and make recommendations without making a home visit. This type of nursing is known as:

A) Telehealth
B) Home Health nursing
C) Wound care nursing
D) Telemedicine

Question 7

One major concern that is associated with health care technology involves:

A) Patient safety and security
B) Data security and confidentiality
C) Sustaining the need for technology
D) Identifying a classification system

Question 8

A retrospective form of research using existing data to examine possible relationships is a is also known as data:

A) retrieval
B) mining
C) entry
D) flow

Question 9

Which of the following best defines informatics?

A) Rapid, accurate information for clinical decision making and healthy data based outcomes
B) The entry of data into computer systems to provide formatted documents for researchers in statistical topics
C) The management and communication of data, information, and knowledge, based on computer science and information science
D) A collection of individual data elements to support the understanding of health data driven outcomes.

Question 10

What constitutes raw data?

A) Facts that have not been checked for accuracy or patterns
B) Facts that are part of a hypothesis
C) Facts about individual clients
D) Facts that are specific and have no relationship to each other

Question 11

What are the key requirements for electronic patient records in a health care system?

A) Ability to alphabetize
B) Small size and security of information
C) Sharing of information systems and security
D) Scheduling and financial systems.