Exam 16: The Impact of Technology

As a nurse manager, you want to institute point-of-care devices on your unit.The rationale that you provide to support the point-of-care devices includes: (Select all that apply.)

A recent nursing graduate in a busy Emergency Department triages a patient who has sustained a large, deep puncture wound in his foot while working at a construction site.He is bleeding and is in pain.The nurse enters the triage data that she has obtained from the patient into a computerized, standard emergency patient-classification system.After she enters the assessment data, she notices an alert on the computer screen that prompts her to ask the patient about the status of his tetanus immunization.What system of technology is involved in generating the alert?

As a nurse manager representative on a clinical information system selection team, you would be particularly concerned if the favored system:

A necessary, basic condition for successful integration of clinical information systems is:

In an ICU, you order new devices to measure heart rhythm and rate, respiratory rate, oxygen levels, and intracranial pressure.These devices involve:

A nurse manager is excited by the possible use of speech recognition (SR) systems for documentation of patient care, especially during crisis situations when staff members need to focus on performing rapid assessments and implementation of procedures.She learns, however, that SR systems would be impractical at this point.What would lead to this conclusion?

As part of an information technology implementation team, you are implementing a clinical decision support system.Particular considerations for successful implementation of this project include:

A home health nurse has been assigned to cover a 300-square-mile area of remote Montana.Mrs.Baker has just been discharged home following bowel surgery and has a new colostomy.She will need daily contacts for at least 2 weeks and then regular weekly contact following that week.Because it is not possible to visit Mrs.Baker in person every day and see all of the other clients, the nurse gives her a laptop computer with net meeting software installed.Each morning, both dial in at an agreed-upon time and discuss her progress.The home health nurse assesses whether or not the client needs to be seen that day and is able to view the colostomy site.This type of technology is called:

At a newly built outpatient surgical center, an integrated information system has been purchased.The chief nursing officer creates a series of staff development classes to orient the staff to this new system.One of the advantages of an integrated information system is that client-care data from all sites can be stored in and retrieved from a:

A rural-urban health consortium enables physicians in a rural remote setting to consult with specialists in care through electronic conferencing, which includes consultation using intranet radiology images.This system may be in which phase of electronic medical technology adoption, according to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)?

Leaders in nursing must advocate for information and knowledge systems that support nursing practice.This is best accomplished by:

You document your patient's vital signs into a bedside documentation device and are able to compare your patient's vital signs with patients who have similar diagnoses and similar medications, and who are of a similar age.You are accessing:

Nurses need to know how to operate a computer, compare data across time, and look for patterns in client responses to treatments.These are examples of:

To improve outcomes on the stroke recovery unit, the unit manager leads an evidence-based practice (EBP) project.The goal of this project is to:

Mr.Cruiser has been surfing the Web.He is looking for healthcare information on low back pain.He shows the clinic nurse a webpage he thinks is great and tells her that he has been following the exercises recommended by the author.He wants to know what she thinks about the site.When the clinic nurse evaluates this site, she discovers that its author is a personal trainer.No credentials are listed.In several testimonials on the page, people (their pictures are included) say how wonderful they feel after having done these exercises.The exercises all have animated demos when you click on the pertinent highlighted text or icon.They seem easy to follow.The site was posted 5 years earlier and was last updated 3 years before.The clinic nurse advises Mr.Cruiser to:

A 39-year-old patient awaits a kidney transplant.Because he must immediately arrange to get to the hospital when a donor kidney is available, it is important that he can be reached anywhere and at any time.To ensure that he receives the message, what type of technology is most effective?

A primary care clinic in a small urban center sees a high volume of cardiology patients.Patients who attend the clinic have smart cards that they use at hospitals, clinics, and Emergency Departments within that region of the state.A primary benefit of the smart card for these patients would be:

As a nurse manager, one challenge is to orient new staff to your agency's policies and procedures, as well as to provide training across various shifts.A cost-effective and effective learning strategy would be:

The nursing manager of a surgical unit has been asked by administration to evaluate client outcomes post cardiac catheterization.Using data about client outcomes post cardiac catheterization for the past 6 months in order to modify practice is an example of:

A nurse manager was orienting new staff members to computerized charting.To understand computerized charting, staff members must understand informatics.The three core concepts in informatics are: