Deck 17: Nursing Informatics

Question 1

The fact that all televisions will correctly receive a signal sent by a station or signal provider regardless of what brand of television is in any given household is an example of which of the following?
1) Portability
2) Scalability
3) Integration
4) Interoperability

Answer 1

4

Question 2

Which educational degree is generally required for an entry-level informatics nurse specialist?
1) Licensed practical nurse (LPN)
2) Master of science in nursing (MSN)
3) Associate of science in nursing (ASN)
4) Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)

Answer 2

4

Question 3

Title XIII of which legislative act created the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which mandated the use of informatics in health care?
1) Patriot Act
2) Affordable Care Act
3) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
4) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Answer 3

3

Question 4

Some federal agencies have the authority, under which legislative act, to wiretap or access any electronic information they believe may be associated with a terrorist threat, including physicians' and nurses' records, laboratory records, and financial information?
1) Patriot Act
2) Affordable Care Act
3) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
4) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Question 5

Florence Nightingale developed the Nightingale Rose, a type of which kind of chart that presented data about health conditions during the Crimean War?
1) Bar chart
2) Pie chart
3) Histogram
4) Infographic

Question 6

What exists if a smartphone of one brand can synchronize with a desktop or laptop computer of another brand in order to use some of the computer's data?
1) Portability
2) Scalability
3) Integration
4) Interoperability

Question 7

Which model is the one that nurse informaticists use to transform basic data into innovations that augment safe, quality health care?
1) Data to information model
2) Data to knowledge model
3) Data to wisdom model
4) Data to cognition model

Question 8

The ability to make the computer perform tasks it was not intended to perform is referred to as which of the following?
1) Bypass
2) Workaround
3) Transition
4) Alternate

Question 9

The primary purpose of which legislative act was to allow patient records to be transferred from one provider or institution to another provider or institution?
1) Affordable Care Act
2) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
3) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
4) Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act

Question 10

Which role of an informatics nurse involves developing a solution to the problem, either by contacting the vendor of the electronic medical record (EMR) with an enhancement request or by devising an alternative workaround to solve the issue?
1) Coordinator
2) Software developer
3) Tester
4) Trainer

Question 11

The development of advanced artificial intelligence systems was the first step toward which of the following?
1) Portability
2) Scalability
3) Integration
4) Interoperability

Question 12

Which of the following was one of the major challenges that was faced by the meaningful use (MU) system?
1) Engaging clients and families in their health
2) Improving population and public health
3) Requirement for rapid implementation
4) Ensuring adequate privacy and security protection for personal health information

Question 13

Today's smartphone has more memory and much faster computing power than a desktop computer from the year 2000. The smartphone demonstrates which quality by having more functionality in a smaller size?
1) Portability
2) Scalability
3) Integration
4) Interoperability

Question 14

HIPAA underwent a revision in 2013 that refined and clarified all previous provisions and rules and created which designation, officially titled the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program?
1) Exclusive use
2) Superior use
3) Proprietary use
4) Meaningful use

Question 15

The strengths of the meaningful use (MU) system became one of the four components of which system introduced in 2019 that seeks improved health-care outcomes through a payment system that benefits the provider?
1) Value-based payment system
2) Quality-based payment system
3) Merit-based incentive payment system
4) Prospective payment system