Deck 4: Nursing and Health Care Informatics

Question 1

Which of these terms best describes networking and attending conferences on nursing informatics as activities for becoming knowledgeable in that field?

A) certification
B) job qualifications
C) educational activities
D) informal opportunities

Answer 1

informal opportunities

Question 2

Which of the following is a key attribute of a nursing specialty?

A) quality assurance
B) representation of the specialty by at least two organized bodies
C) differentiated practice
D) degree status

Answer 2

differentiated practice

Question 3

Which specialities are combined in the field of Nursing Informatics?

A) nursing research and computer science
B) clinical practice,computer science,and information systems
C) computer science and education
D) computer science,information,and technology

Answer 3

computer science,information,and technology

Question 4

In what year was the modern Internet developed?

A) 1969
B) 1989
C) 1995
D) 1998

Question 5

Which of these acronyms represents an assessment strategy to develop an Internet search?

A) PAF
B) FAP
C) APF
D) PFA

Question 6

What is the acronym for a patient record stored and accessed electronically?

A) CIS
B) EHR
C) EPR
D) CNA

Question 7

Nursing Informatics has been formally recognized as an area for speciality certification in nursing by which of the following groups?

A) International Medical Informatics Association
B) Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
C) American Nurses Association
D) Canadian Nurses Association

Question 8

Basic computer literacy in nursing requires which of these skills?

A) integrating programs
B) accessing information from a variety of electronic resources
C) installing upgrades
D) developing software

Question 9

Which of the following first developed the definition of nursing informatics?

A) Gorn
B) Canadian Nurses Association
C) Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
D) Ball and Hannah

Question 10

Which of these terms describes phase I of the history of modern computing?

A) PC era
B) UC era
C) mainframe era
D) calm technology

Question 11

In web addresses,what do the terms .com and .org refer to?

A) databases
B) domains
C) uniform resource locaters
D) websites

Question 12

Which of these areas is included with the theory and application of science and technology in the field of informatics?

A) conducting research
B) learning how to use new tools and maximize their capabilities
C) creating innovations in nursing education
D) collecting nursing data

Question 13

Which of the following is an example of a user group?

A) MS-HUG
B) AMIA
C) MRI
D) CPRI

Question 14

What is the technology that allows practitioners to practice procedures realistically without an actual patient?

A) visualization
B) exposure therapy
C) virtual reality
D) simulation

Question 15

According to Statistics Canada what percentage of home Internet users have searched the Internet for health information?

A) 77 percent
B) 70 percent
C) 53 percent
D) 25 percent

Question 16

What is the term for the act of limiting disclosure of private matters?

A) privacy
B) security
C) confidentiality
D) identifier

Question 17

What is the highest level of health informatics education currently available for nurses at Canadian universities?

A) individual courses at the undergraduate level
B) individual courses at the graduate level
C) doctoral programs
D) graduate programs with a specialist nursing informatics focus

Question 18

What is the term for the interoperability of systems and linkages for exchange of data across disparate systems?

A) data capture
B) storage
C) patient-focused system
D) information communication

Question 19

What was the original purpose of the World Wide Web (WWW)when it was first designed?

A) communication of health information
B) a method of advertising
C) a communication aid for physicists
D) communication between governments

Question 20

Which of these mnemonics can be used in evaluating information found on the Internet?

A) PELASDE
B) EPLASED
C) DEPLASE
D) PLEASED