Exam 17: Using Informatics to Promote Communitypopulation Health

Epidemic information exchange is a secure communication system for practitioners to access and share preliminary health surveillance information.

A nurse is performing a risk assessment of a community. The indication for the risk assessment is likely which of the following?

A nurse is collecting data on a hazardous material. The data are then submitted to a repository for research and data regarding hazardous materials. Where is this repository housed?

_______ is done to determine the length, amount, and pattern of exposure to the potentially hazardous material.

A nurse is performing a risk assessment in a community. Which of the following is the first step of the risk assessment?

The availability of information technology today challenges all stakeholders in the health of the public to adopt new systems that can provide adequate disease surveillance; it also challenges people to improve outmoded processes.

A nurse is explaining the use of public health informatics to a nursing student. Which statement by the nurse is correct?

Electronic health records may help to promote public health initiatives by:

There is a suspected outbreak of influenza at a local elementary school. What data would the public health nurse collect first?

An informatics nurse is working in a public health information organization. Its objective is to support which of the following efforts?

A public health nurse is assessing the risk of the hazardous material causing illness in a community. This effort is known as which of the following?

A public health nurse uses an infectious disease tracker for which of the following purposes?

Epidemiology involves:

Which of the following creates the information that becomes the basis for knowledge in the field of public health?

Core public health functions include all of the following except:

Public health data include data related to surveillance, environmental health, and preparedness systems.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using crowdsourced social media data during a disaster response?

Imagine that you are a public health informatics specialist and that you and your colleagues are concerned about a new strain of influenza. Which public health data are used to determine the need for a mass inoculation? Which data will be collected to determine the success of such a program?

The overall question the risk assessment has to answer is, "How much risk is acceptable?"

A nurse is reviewing reports of infectious diseases in a community. Which of the following tools includes a map with public health data to specific locations?