T&H Midterm
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True or False? Cache memory is extremely quick memory that holds whatever data and code are being used at any one time.
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Videos have been combined as earcons to represent relationships among data elements, such as the relationship of systolic to diastolic blood pressure.
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Wearable technology is the next new frontier in human-technology interfacing where the devices we wear can also interject signals into our body.
raw facts
What are data?
Hardware and software that support humans interacting with technology
What is the human-technology interface?
scrum
What is the term for the agile strategy that emphasizes collaboration, team autonomy or self-management, and flexibility to adapt to emerging business realities?
bandwidth
What is the term for the measurement in bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes of the data that can transfer from or to your computer?
analysis
What term refers to teasing out the requirements for the system after studying the business needs of the organization in detail?
mouse
What term refers to the second most commonly used input device manipulated by the user's hand to point, click, and move objects around the computer screen?
must adhere to responsible information standards.
When healthcare agencies provide access to health information on websites they:
knowledge workers
When nursing professionals work with information and generate information and knowledge as a product, they can be described as:
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Which of the following activities is/are used to build a foundation of knowledge in professional practice? Question options: 1) Reading research and theory articles 2) Attending continuing education programs 3) Consulting with expert colleagues and using clinical practice guidelines 4) all
wisdom
Which of the following is defined as the appropriate use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems?
Regulating the development and release of medical apps
Which of the following is not part of the 21st Century Cures Act?
Social media posts are easily deleted by the person who initiated the post.
Which of the following is not true about social media?
epistemology
Which of the following is the study of the nature and origin of knowledge-what it means to know?
beginning nurse
Which of the following nursing professionals possesses basic computer technology skills and information management skills?
informatics innovator
Which of the following nursing professionals transforms software programs to support data analysis and aggregation?
It is a sequential development process.
Which of the following statements is/are correct about the waterfall model?
protected health information
Which of the following terms is defined as any physical or mental health information created, received, or stored by a "covered entity" that can be used to identify an individual patient, regardless of the form of the health information.
researcher
Which role possibly entails data mining to create new informatics and clinical knowledge?
extensibility
Which term refers to using layered architecture with a protected executive layer that allows additional environment subsystems to be added without affecting the executive layer?
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Wisdom is: Question options: 1) knowledge applied in a practical way or translated into actions. 2) insight to exercise sound judgment in practical matters. 3) the synthesis of our experience, insight, understanding, and knowledge.
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Situations, experiences, education, and knowledge building promote transitions between types of knowledge workers.
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Knowledge and wisdom are synonymous.
observes the steps users are likely to take to use the interface to accomplish typical tasks.
A cognitive walkthrough:
patient confidentiality
A nurse accesses lab results of a patient not under the nurse's care in the electronic health record. The nurse is violating:
contributing to the nurse's foundation of knowledge
A nurse attends continuing education programs and reads nursing research articles regularly, thereby:
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A nurse has committed to lifelong learning and understands that it will come from which of the following?
resistance to change
A nurse is caring for a complex patient with a multidisciplinary team. The nurse demonstrates autonomy, advanced critical thinking, and interpersonal skills. What challenge might this nurse have in working with the team?
reason
A nurse is caring for a patient who experiences a complication after surgery. The nurse understands the cause-and-effect relationship because her knowledge is based in:
Communicating patient information to help coordinate care
A nurse is documenting nursing care in the electronic health record. What is the most important reason for this action?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
A nurse is educating a patient on privacy of health information. The nurse explains that privacy is part of which federal law?
explicit
A nurse is evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions. Which type of knowledge will they use?
"Cognitive science pertains to how information is processed in the mind."
A nurse is explaining cognitive science to a nursing student. Which statement indicates that the nursing student understands?
Cognitive informatics examines how humans interact with computers so better information technology systems can be built."
A nurse is explaining how cognitive informatics helps improve information technology in health care. Which statement by the nurse is correct?
"The electronic health record will likely provide the ability to make more efficient and timely nursing care decisions for patients."
A nurse is explaining the impact of a nationwide electronic health record on nursing to a nursing student. Which statement by the nurse is correct?
Implementing information systems in the healthcare setting
A nurse is interested in pursuing a professional role in nursing informatics. Which of the following is an activity in which the informatics nurse will likely participate?
Membership in an informatics professional organization
A nurse is interested in the development of policies and education for nursing informatics and reading journals specifically on informatics. Which of the following should the nurse consider?
knowledge acquisition
A nurse is learning about a new nursing skill through observations and interactions. This process is known as:
experienced nurse
A nurse is proficient in critical care nursing and pulls data out of the electronic health record that can impact patient care. This best describes which level of competency for practicing nurses?
"Advanced practice nurses who are experts in nursing are considered knowledge generators."
A nurse is teaching a new nurse about knowledge workers. Which statement by the nurse is correct?
patient care data from different sources.
A nurse is using the International Classification for Nursing Practice when documenting patient care. The nurse understands this facilitates the ability to compare and combine:
Access to networking with informatics professionals
A nurse joins a professional nursing informatics organization and is interested in learning more about becoming an informatics nursing specialist. Which of the following will the nurse utilize as part of the benefits of membership to learn more about this role?
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A nurse reviews a patient's blood pressure measurements over the past 12 hours and recognizes that the blood pressure has been elevated. The clustering of these data represents:
wisdom
A nurse takes a continuing education course on a new nursing skill. The application of this new knowledge in a practical way is known as:
A paper copy of the notice of privacy practices of the facility
A patient is admitted to a healthcare facility and has questions about the facility's privacy practices. To which of the following does the patient have a right?
The patient must be notified of the breach.
A patient's electronic health record in a health system has been breached by an outside source. Which of the following is the priority action by the health system?
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A security breach is considered discovered as soon as an employee other than the individual who committed the breach knows or should have known of the breach, such as unauthorized access or even an unsuccessful attempt to access information.
augmented intelligence
AI frequently functions in an assistive role in healthcare decision-making. This is also known as:
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All nurses need to be engaged in the development and integration of a nationwide electronic health record.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving; however, some companies who cannot navigate the complexities of AI are unethical and employ human impostors who fake AI by pretending to be the machines assigned to do the work of the humans. This pseudo AI undermines the entire premise of AI.
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As AI becomes more sophisticated, it is likely to replace human decision-making in health care.
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act
CMS meaningful use guidelines were replaced by which of the following laws?
casuistry
Case-based ethical reasoning that considers the facts of a case in a sound, logical, and ordered or structured manner is known as:
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Central to the development of robust expert systems is the agreement on and use of standard terminologies that accurately codify and capture the nature of nursing in these electronic systems.
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Characteristics of valuable, quality information include accessibility, security, timeliness, accuracy, relevancy, completeness, flexibility, reliability, objectivity, utility, transparency, verifiability, and reproducibility.
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Clinical decision support systems help users to: 1) consider the consequences of alternative actions. 2) provide stores of information. 3) make decisions in unfamiliar circumstances.
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Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary field that studies the mind, intelligence, and behavior from an information processing perspective.
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Computer science offers extremely valuable tools that, if used skillfully, can facilitate the acquisition and manipulation of data and information by professionals, who can then synthesize these into an evolving knowledge and wisdom base
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Computers can be linked to other computers through networking software and hardware to promote communication, information exchange, work sharing, and collaboration.
duplicate entries and incomplete or outdated records
Data are dirty when there are errors such as:
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Each person processes and assimilates knowledge in a unique way.
all
Essentially, a computer is: 1) an input-output system. 2) an electronic information-processing machine that serves as a tool to manipulate data and information. 3) a machine that accepts data inputted via a variety of devices, processes data through logical and arithmetic rendering, stores the data in memory components, and outputs data and information to the user.
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Existing accounting rules are enhanced under the HITECH Act, giving patients the right to access their EHR and receive an accounting of all disclosures. Before the HITECH Act, HIPAA regulations provided an exception to the accounting requirements.
information processing
From which perspective does cognitive science study the mind, intelligence, and behavior?
false
HIPAA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996 to monitor physicians and hospitals and enhance information exchange without consequences.
Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice.
In 2015, the American Nurses Association published the second edition of the:
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In ethics theory, autonomy means: 1) personal responsibility. 2) acting alone. 3) freedom from controlling interferences.
the obligation not to inflict harm intentionally.
In ethics theory, nonmaleficence means:
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In information systems, data are the same thing as inputs.
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In order for people to interact with other devices and computers, these machines musthave smart ways to interact with each other. Near Field Communication Interface and Protocol (NFCIP-1) provides the communication network for these devices to be interconnected.
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In the future, nurses are likely to have access to evidence and knowledge derived from large aggregates of clinical data, including nursing interventions and resultant outcomes.
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In timeboxing, the project is divided into sections, each having its own fixed budget and dates or milestones for deliverables.
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Information is acquired either by actively looking for it or by having it conveyed by the environment.
True
Information science integrates features from cognitive science, communication science, computer science, library science, and the social sciences.
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Interoperability is the ability to share information across organizations.
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It is important to understand how people obtain, manipulate, use, share, and dispose of information.
tweet
Microblogging occurs on/in:
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MoSCoW stands for "Must have, Should have, Could have, and Would have." The "must have" requirements are needed to meet the business needs and are critical to the success of the project.
true
Morals are widely shared social conventions about right and wrong human conduct.
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Much can be learned from the related fields of cognitive engineering, human factors, and ergonomics about how to make interfaces more compatible with their human users and the context of care.
privacy and confidentiality
New technologies in digital communications, electronic health records, and telehealth raise issues related to:
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Nurses are knowledge workers.
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Nurses gather atomic-level data reflected in: 1) blood pressure. 2) pulse rate. 3) blood glucose.
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Nurses have many educational opportunities available to become formally trained in the field of nursing informatics to become an informatics nurse specialist.
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Nurses must know key aspects of national laws and organizational policies governing privacy and security of health information.
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Nurses use data and information. This information is then converted to knowledge. The nurse then acts on this knowledge by initiating a plan of care, updating an existing one, or maintaining the status quo.
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Nursing informatics will influence the development of future electronic health records.
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Nursing science focuses on the ethical application of knowledge.
accessibility and ubiquity
Nursing terminology must be easy to access, with information and knowledge available anywhere. These qualities can be described by which of the following terms?
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Once standardized, a term can be measured and coded.
true
One position that informatics nurse specialists fill quite well is the role of the project manager, as a result of their ability to simultaneously manage multiple complex situations.
bringing about human benefit
Practice-based ethics as described by Husted and Husted (1995) focuses on:
tacit knowledge
Reflection on practice to gain insight into why an approach was successful (or not) in a practice situation helps a professional to build:
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Relevant information is a subjective descriptor, in that a group of users must have information that is relevant or applicable to their needs at the same time.
knowledge generators
Researchers and discipline experts are likely to be which type of knowledge worker?
true
SDLC is a way to deliver efficient and effective information systems that fit with the strategic business plan of an organization.
all
Skills related to nursing information literacy include: 1) differentiating between scholarly and popular journals. 2) locating and retrieving information from credible sources. 3) recognizing a need for information.
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Task analysis examines:
project management and change/control management.
The 2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey revealed two new job responsibilities in addition to those listed in the 2017 survey. They are:
bsn
The ANCC's examination is specific for the informatics nurse. Along with completing 30 contact hours of continuing education in informatics, the applicant must meet one of the following criteria: (1) 2,000 hours practicing as an informatics nurse, (2) 1,000 hours practicing as an informatics nurse and 12 semester hours of graduate academic credit toward a nursing informatics degree, or (3) completion of a nursing informatics degree that included at least 200 supervised practicum hours. The applicant must be a licensed registered nurse with at least 2 years of recent experience and have a(n):
encourages the evaluator to examine the fit between each two of the components: user and technology, task and technology, and user and task.
The FITT model:
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The HITECH Act had which of the following goals? 1) Improve healthcare quality 2) Reduce healthcare costs 3) Improve and protect public health
Enhanced notification requirements in the event of a breach in the security of health information
The HITECH Act has had a significant impact on HIPAA's Privacy and Security Rules in which of the following ways?
true
The OOSD model is a highly linear approach.
true
The Policy Committee established by the HITECH Act is responsible for making recommendations to the coordinator about how to implement the requirements of the HITECH Act, such as the technologies to use in the infrastructure.
false
The United States is the only country with strong informatics and health technology capabilities.
informatics competency
The core skill set related to the use of computers, electronic health records, healthcare technologies, and knowledge generation in a discipline is known as:
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The difference between mobile and wireless broadband depends on the limitations to access the Internet and the access method.
true
The dynamic system development method (DSDM) is a highly iterative and incremental approach with a high level of user input and involvement.
highly iterative
The dynamic system development method (DSDM) is:
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The federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act) is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The ARRA was enacted to stimulate various sectors of the United States. The health information technology (HIT) industry was one area where lawmakers saw an opportunity to stimulate the economy and improve the delivery of health care at the same time.
true
The human interfaces for each of the various technologies are different and can even differ among different brands or versions of the same device
all
The impactful Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human listed the top 10 most persistent medication and safety errors/issues. Which of the following errors was/were included and has/have continued two decades after the report was issued. 1) Look-alike labeling 2) Unsafe practices associated with IV push medications 3) Wrong route
false
The informatics nurse specialist role does not require an advanced degree or a post-master's certificate.
consultant
The informatics nurse specialist who takes on which of the following roles provides expert advice, opinions, and recommendations based on his or her area of expertise? Flexibility, good communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, and extensive clinical and informatics knowledge are highly desirable skill sets for this role.
true
The knowledge used to develop and glean knowledge from valuable information is generative (having the ability to originate and produce or generate) in nature.
looking up a colleague's diagnosis and laboratory results.
The nurse violates a patient's confidentiality and right to privacy by:
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The size of the power supply should be chosen based on the amount of devices and programs being used on the computer.
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The sound card converts digital data into an analog signal that is then output to the computer's speakers or headphones. The reverse is also accomplished by inputting a signal from a microphone or other audio recording equipment, which then converts the analog signal to a digital signal.
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The term "plug and play" refers to peripheral computer add-ons, such as an iPod or game console, that can be simply plugged into a serial or other port and instantly used.
portability
The term that refers to the ability of the OS to be moved from one hardware architecture to another with few changes is:
false
The three sources of knowledge are intuition, instinct, and wisdom.
virtually all groups
The use of social media has increased dramatically in recent years among:
true
The user experience (UX) is the user's experience from interacting with an object, product, or service. It has been connected to the term usability and refers to the design of products and services with the user in mind in order to meet the user's needs.
false
Timeboxing is generally used to develop the feasibility study.
true
To transform health care, it is necessary for clinicians to use information systems that can share patient data.
Transparency
___ allows users to apply their intellect to accomplish their tasks while the tools housing the information disappear from conscious thought.
usability
___ is the term that denotes the ease with which people can use an interface to achieve a particular goal.
wisdom
____is/are sometimes thought of as the highest form of common sense, resulting from accumulated knowledge or erudition (deep, thorough learning) or enlightenment (education that results in understanding and the dissemination of knowledge).
