Introduction to Information Systems in Healthcare

How does technology enhance nursing practice? Select all that apply.

- Means to prevent errors - Learn how to obtain, analyze, and manage large amounts of data more effectively and efficiently - How care is delivered, resources are managed, and how interprofessional teams' function

Read each description and identify the correct competency essential in nursing practice.​

Computer Fluency Information Literacy Informatics Literacy

To deliver safe, quality patient care, the competencies of nursing informatics were determined from which of the following categories? Select all that apply.

Computer skills​ Informatics skills Informatics knowledge

Nursing informatics concentrates on finding ways to impact which aspects of health care? Select all that apply.

Improve efficiency Improve communication Enhance safety and quality of care Improve information management Nursing informatics concentrates on finding ways to improve information management and communication to improve efficiency, reduce costs (not increase cost), and ultimately enhance safety and quality of care.

What type of literacy includes the use of technology to input information into a clinical system and retrieve and manage the information?

Informatics literacy

Healthcare providers understand which nurse competencies help to mitigate error and increase communication and access to information? Select all that apply.

Informatics literacy Information literacy Computer fluency

Health care providers use computer fluency, information literacy, and informatics literacy to achieve which outcome?

Mitigates error

Distinguish the various types of literacy to its description. You can use a type more than once.

**Information: Knowledge of basic and advanced search techniques in library databases and the internet. Basic knowledge of assessing information findings related to the credibility of authors and the validity of research studies allows the health care provider to use the information wisely. ** Computer literacy Use of basic operating systems and software for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software. Use to find information rapidly and efficiently. **Informatics Literacy Integrating health information with computerized systems to increase information management and client safety.

Computers can only facilitate nursing care and are not a substitute for it. Which human tasks cannot be performed by computers? Select all that apply.

- Utilizing an ethical decision-making process - Using computerized information to plan nursing care - Assessing the reliability of computerized patient monitoring systems - Recognizing the value of clinicians' knowledge and skills

The technology informatics guiding education reform (TIGER) initiative was designed to use health information technology in nursing practice by focusing on which initiatives? Select all that apply.

- Ways to improve the delivery of patient care - Common vision and strategy in use of health information technology - Practice standards in informatics. - Improve informatics knowledge and skills The TIGER Initiative, which is an acronym for Technology Informatics Guide Education Reform, was designed in 2004 with the goal of bringing together nurses to develop a common vision, strategies, and specific goals for the purpose of improving nursing practice, education, and the delivery of patient care using health information technology (IT) (HIMSS, 2016). From this group, recommendations were made for the creation of competencies, intended to guide practice. These competencies have been included in various programs throughout the country.

Integration of informatics influences which aspects of health care? Select all that apply.​

Delivery of healthcare The function of interprofessional teams How resources are managed Remember, the ways in which care is delivered, resources are managed, and how interprofessional teams' function are all influenced by informatics. Informatics does not necessarily influence increases in staffing.

Which skill demonstrates an initiative to prevent errors and improve client safety?​

Documenting the plan of care in the electronic health record

Standardized terminology in the electronic health record is used to achieve which primary outcome?

Improve patient care and safety Informatics literacy includes "the interpretation of information workflow within the organization, the preparation of process information flow charts for all aspects of clinical systems, the development of standards and database structures to facilitate clinical care, education, administration or research" (Darvish et.al, 2014). This includes the use of standardized terminology in the electronic health record which aims to improve patient care and safety. ​

Which nursing skill involves integrating health information with computerized systems to increase information management and client safety?​

Informatics literacy Informatics literacy involves integrating health information with computerized systems to increase information management and ensure patient safety. It enables the knowledge, skill, and attitude (KSA) to use technology to not only input information into a clinical system but also retrieve and manage the information to improve client safety and quality outcomes.

What type of literacy using standardized terminology is required by the nurse documenting a client's plan of care in the electronic health record?

Informatics literacy Informatics literacy involves integrating health information with computerized systems to increase information management and patient safety. For example, documenting the client's plan of care in the electronic health record demonstrates a way to improve client safety and mitigate errors in healthcare systems.​ The development of standards and database structures to facilitate clinical care, education, administration or research includes the use of standardized terminology in the electronic health record which aims to improve patient care and safety. ​

Which healthcare providers are challenged with becoming and staying computer and information literate to facilitate the delivery of safe, quality care? Select all that apply.

Nurses Therapists​ Physicians​ Physical therapists​ Social workers​ Healthcare workers in every setting are being challenged with becoming and staying computer literate. Providers (physicians, advanced practice nurses), nurses, therapists, dietitians, social workers, etc. and various nonprofessionals need to be computer literate, and most of them need to be information literate. From a nursing standpoint, many organizations and other interested stakeholders have defined informatics competencies that are deemed essential to facilitate the delivery of safe, efficient care, and to add depth to their knowledge base.