Exam 1: Nursing Science and the Foundation of Knowledge

A new nurse is documenting in a patient's electronic health record when a visitor approaches the nurse to ask questions. What should the nurse do to ensure confidentiality and security of the patient's electronic health record?

When nursing professionals work with information and generate information and knowledge as a product, they can be described as:

Another name for data that have meaning is:

When a nurse uses information from other sources to help rethink, revise, and apply knowledge to a clinical situation, this is known as:

Which of the following is a skill that a nurse would demonstrate to improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems?

The nursing staff of an intensive care unit is collaborating with staff pharmacists to install an automated medication dispensing system, which will help:

Which of the following best describes the central goal of nursing informatics?

Wisdom is:

Wisdom and knowledge differ in that

Choose a clinical scenario from your recent experience and analyze it using the Foundation of Knowledge model. How did you acquire knowledge? How did you process knowledge? How did you generate knowledge? How did you disseminate knowledge? How did you use feedback, and what was the effect of the feedback on the foundation of your knowledge?

The core skill set related to the use of computers, electronic health records, healthcare technologies, and knowledge generation in a discipline is known as

A nurse is performing a physical assessment on a patient with chest pain. Which of the following is a technology that the nurse would use to obtain objective data on the physical status of the patient?

Imagine you are in a social situation and someone asks you, "What does a nurse do?" Think about how you will capture and convey the richness that is nursing science in your answer.

Every nurse must commit to lifelong learning and the use of knowledge in practice in order to be successful.

The Vision Series by the National League for Nursing (NLN) (2015); recommendations in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) learning modules (2014); the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative (HIMSS, 2016); and Nursing Informatics Deep Dive by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2016) are all efforts to integrate informatics competencies to manage data, information, and knowledge; alleviate error and promote safety; support decision making; and

Nurses must know key aspects of national laws and organizational policies governing privacy and security of health information.

A nursing professional reads a nursing journal article on a new patient care technology. This nursing professional is:

A new nurse is caring for a patient with a complex care issue and consults with a clinical nurse specialist and experienced nurses. The nurse is:

A nurse accesses a clinical guideline to obtain accurate and timely data. The nurse understands these guidelines support: