Taylor Ch. 20 Informatics
A informatics nurse is involved in testing a new clinical information system at the clinic. Place the phases of testing that would occur from first to last.
Unit Function Integration Performance User acceptance
An informatics nurse specialist is engaged in evaluating a clinical information system. At which time would the nurse specialist anticipate the need to obtain help from a statistician?
When determining the data collection method
During a recent visit to the clinic, a client tells the nurse, "I've been using my cell phone to track and record the foods that I eat so that I can better understand if I'm making healthy food choices." The nurse interprets the client's statement as reflecting which technology?
mHealth
An informatics nurse is demonstrating how to use an updated version of an electronic documentation system to a group of staff nurses. The nurse shows the staff that they can follow the same steps that they used with the previous system but need to add one additional final step to the process. The informatics nurse's actions reflect which concept of usabilty?
Consistency
An informatics nurse is applying the informatics framework to a clinical situation. Which component of the framework would the nurse apply first?
Data
An informatics nurse specialist has received an update from the vendor who is providing the electronic health record. During which phase of the system development lifecycle would this update be made?
Maintain
An informatics nurse specialist is presenting an in-service program for a group of staff nurses on using the electronic health record. As part of the presentation, the nurse specialist is emphasizing the need for maintaining security and privacy of the record. During a break in the program, the nurse specialist overhears a conversation among several of the staff nurses. Which statement would the nurse specialist identify as a cause for concern?
"I always put a sticky note on the computer terminal with my password on it in case I forget it."
An informatics nurse specialist is conducting an in-service program for a group of staff nurses about this specialty. One of the nurses asks, "What exactly is nursing informatics?" Which response by the informatics nurse specialist would be most appropriate?
"It combines nursing science with information management and analytical sciences."
An informatics nurse specialist has completed the evaluation of an update to a current clinical information system used by the staff at the local hospital and has documented the results. Documentation reveals the need for an improvement in the screen display. Which action would be next?
Analyze and Plan
An informatics nurse specialist is involved in the development of a clinical system in a facility. As part of this process, the nurse is applying the system development lifecycle. Place the phases of the system development lifecycle in the order that they would occur from first to last.
Analyze and plan Design and build Test Train Implement Maintain and evaluate
An informatics nurse specialist working at an ambulatory care center is interviewing clients about their experiences in using the center's patient portal. A majority of the clients have voiced dissatisfaction, stating that they "find the display screen confusing and are not sure what to click on to get the necessary information." They also talk about difficulties in trying to find their test results. Based on this information, the nurse specialist identifies a need to talk with the information technology team about ways to make the portal easier for clients to use. The informatics nurse specialist is demonstrating which ANA informatics competency?
Collaboration
A nurse is documenting a client's vital signs, height, and weight in the electronic health record. Applying the framework for informatics practice, the nurse would identify these values as which component of the framework?
Data
An informatics nurse specialist is collecting data from the clinical information system about the demographics of individuals diagnosed with heart failure admitted to the facility over the past five years. The nurse specialist is preparing a presentation to the facility's executive board. To promote understanding of this complex information, the nurse specialist prepares the data results using a pie chart and a bar graph. The nurse specialist is using which area of analytics?
Data visualization
A group of nurses along with an informatics nurse specialist are conducting user acceptance testing of an update to a clinical information system. During this testing, which question is the group looking to answer?
Does the update function and work as intended?
An informatics nurse is evaluating a new clinical information system for usability. The nurse notes that the system requires the user to complete a maximum of 3 steps to complete a task. The system also provides shortcuts to frequent users of the system. The nurse would determine that which concept of usability is being addressed?
Efficient interactions
An informatics nurse specialist is working as part of the team working on adding a new pain rating assessment tool to an already established electronic health record. The team is discussing which type of training would be best. After reviewing the various options available, the informatics nurse specialist determines that additional discussion is needed when the team identifies which type of training as being appropriate? Select all that apply.
Formal classroom sessions Tip sheet Just-in-time training
An informatics nurse specialist is recommending the addition of an alert system tool to the facility's patient portal. The tool would be designed to send alerts to the client to schedule routine screenings and immunizations. This recommendation most likely reflects which ANA informatics competency?
Health teaching and health promotion
An informatics nurse specialist is gathering data from electronic health records at the facility about clients who have had central venous catheters inserted for more than the recommended time as specified by the facility's protocol. The nurse specialist is collecting this data most likely for which purpose?
Identify clients at risk for infection
An informatics nurse is assisting with the evaluation of a newly implemented system for electronic documentation of client assessments. The nurse is planning to involve staff nurses in this process. When beginning the evaluation process, the informatics nurse would focus on which area first?
Identifying what will be evaluated
An informatics nurse specialist is part of a team that will be implementing a new clinical information system at the facility. The nurse specialist advocates to include staff nurses who will be using the system to be involved in the process. The nurse specialist advocates for this based on which reason?
Improve the chances that the system will meet the intended need
A nurse is reading a journal article about health information technology and the need for this technology to demonstrate meaningful use. Which information would the nurse anticipate reading about as reflective of meaningful use? Select all that apply.
Improvement in health care quality Greater client engagement Reduction in privacy breaches of client information
A nurse working in a primary care provider's office is using the clnical information system to review a client's health information. The nurse is able to review the client's last visit to the primary care provider as well as information from a recent hospitalization, and also a visit that the client made to the cardiologist last week. The nurse's ability to review this information is based on which aspect of the clinical information system?
Interoperability
An informatics nurse specialist is conducting a presentation to a group of health care providers about informatics and genomic health care. When describing the difference between genetics and genomics, which information about genomics would the nurse most likely include? Select all that apply.
Interrelationship among genes Potential influence on growth and development Use as part of a person's clinical care
An informatics nurse specialist is interviewing several nurses who have participated in testing a new electronic assessment tool. The nurses report that the tool "feels so familiar, like we know exactly what it is that we're supposed to do." The nurse specialist interprets this as indicating which concept?
Naturalness
An informatics nurse specialist is involved with implementing strategies to improve the performance of the clinical information system being used. As part of this process, the nurse specialist is working on updating the plans of care in the system to reflect changes to a procedure based on new evidence. The nurse is also working to streamline the display screens to reduce the need to document the same information in three different areas. The nurse specialist is addressing which aspect of the system?
Optimization
An informatics nurse specialist is extracting data from the facility's electronic health record in an attempt to identify clients at risk for developing catheter-related bloodstream infections. When gathering this data, the nurse specialist is using which technique?
Predictive analytics
An informatics nurse is reading a journal article about standard terminologies. The nurse demonstrates a need to reread the article when identifying which example as reflecting a standard terminology?
PubMed
An informatics nurse is assisting with the design of an clinical information system for use by the staff of a health center. The nurse is working to ensure that the system reflects usability by making sure that the screen display is viusually clean and uncluttered and that it provides only the information needed for decision making. Which concept of usability is the nurse incoroporating?
Simplicity
A nurse has a two-way video communication with the specialist involved in the care of a client in a long-term care facility. This is an example of what nursing informatics technology?
Telemedicine and mobile technology
An informatics nurse specialist is working with a team designing an update to a clinical information system being used by the nursing staff. When selecting the language to be used with the system, which characteristic would be most appropriate to address? Select all that apply.
Terminology is clear and concise for the nurses Terminology is familiar to the user Terminology reflects the users work context
An informatics nurse specialist is involved in evaluating a new electronic documentation system being used by the facility. The nurse specialist has collected the necessary data, analyzed it, and is now preparing to display the data using a bar graph to present the information. When displaying the data, which information would be important for the nurse specialist to include? Select all that apply.
Title of the graph Date range Sample size Legends for colors
Several nurses are discussing their impressions of the newly implemented electronic health record with an informatics nurse specialist. They say, "There is so much information on one screen, it hard to tell what we should do first. It's not really clear." The informatics nurse specialist interprets the comments as reflecting an issue with which area?
Usability
A nurse is conducting a client assessment and documenting the findings in the client's electronic health record (EHR). Which description would the nurse most likely enter as data in the system to document the client's activity level?
Walks without assistance
An informatics nurse specialist is describing the role of informatics in health care to a group of staff at a facility. The nurse specialist determines that the teaching was successful when the group identifies which as a core practice area?
electronic health record
The nurse is caring for a client in the intensive care unit who must be administered multiple medications. The client is often unresponsive and cannot offer information during assessment. When administering the medication, which step by the nurse is most important to avoid confusion and ensure safety?
Compare the client's wristband to the eMAR and EHR information if the client is unresponsive, then verify the medication has the same identifying information.
An informatics nurse specialist is working with a team to design a clinical information system. To ensure system usability, the team would make sure that the language meets which criterion? Select all that apply.
Conciseness Clarity Familiarity for the use
An informatics nurse specialist is describing the framework underlying informatics practice. Which component of the framework would the nurse specialist describe as discrete entities without interpretation?
Data
An informatics nurse specialist is working as part of a team that will be developing and implementing a new client assessment tool. During which phase of the system development lifecycle would the team be integrating information about workflow patterns, standard terminology, and recommendations for screen layout from supportive research?
Design and build
A client comes to see the cardiologist for a routine follow-up visit. At the visit, the nurse reviews the client's electronic health record. The nurse is able to access a report from the client's last visit to the primary care provider last month and the report from an emergency department visit two weeks ago for reports of shortness of breath. The record also lists two changes in the client's medication based on the emergency department visit. The nurse's ability to access this information reflects which concept?
Interoperability
An informatics nurse specialist is conducting an orientation for the staff of a primary care provider's office about a new web-based tool that they will be implementing. The goal of the tool is to promote patient engagement. The informatics nurse specialist is most likely orienting the staff to which system?
Patient portal
An informatics nurse specialist is conducting an in-service education program for a group of staff nurses. The topic is ensuring electronic client data is secure and private. The specialist determines that the teaching was successful when the group identifies which aspect as essential to ensuring the security of electronic data when using clinical systems?
Use of strong passwords
An informatics nurse specialist is working with a team to design a clinical information system. To ensure system usability, the team would make sure that the language meets which criterion? Select all that apply.
Conciseness Clarity Familiarity for the user
An informatics nurse specialist is working on a team that is considering a new technological system for the facility. Which aspect would be most important for the team to do as the first step?
Determine the need or problem to be solved
An informatics nurse is participating in an online continuing education course about nursing informatics. The nurse demonstrates successful comprehension of the course by identifying which individual as being considered the first informatics nurse?
Florence Nightingale
An informatics nurse specialist is preparing a presentation for a local community group about advances in technology in health care. Part of the presentation will focus on technological advances to promote greater client participation in managing health. Which component would the nurse likely describe as playing a major role?
Patient portal
