Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Close the electronic health record immediately. 
B)  Take the visitor to the nurse's station for assistance. 
C)  Continue documenting the record and answer the visitor's questions. 
D)  None of these is correct.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  seasoned professionals. 
B)  knowledge workers. 
C)  practice managers. 
D)  innovators.

Question 3

Another name for data that have meaning is:

Accepted Answer

A)  mean data. 
B)  data accuracy. 
C)  information. 
D)  wisdom.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  feedback. 
B)  knowledge processing. 
C)  knowledge engineering. 
D)  None of these is correct.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Document and plan the patient's care in the electronic health record. 
B)  Appreciate the necessity for health professionals to seek lifelong learning. 
C)  Explain why technology is important for safe patient care. 
D)  Protect the confidentiality of protected health information of patients.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  improve patient safety. 
B)  streamline the electronic health record. 
C)  improve communication between the pharmacy and nursing. 
D)  enhance security of protected patient health information.

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A)  To foster interdisciplinary collaboration and communication in a healthcare organization 
B)  To promote patient safety and prevent falls by assigning a fall risk number to hospitalized patients 
C)  To increase efficiency of care delivery and help to manage costs 
D)  To manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in the delivery of nursing care

Question 8

Wisdom is:

Accepted Answer

A)  knowledge applied in a practical way or translated into actions. 
B)  insight to exercise sound judgment in practical matters. 
C)  the synthesis of our experience, insight, understanding and knowledge. 
D)  All of these are correct.

Question 9

Wisdom and knowledge differ in that

Accepted Answer

A)  wisdom is dependent on the thoughts of others. 
B)  wisdom is the synthesis of experience, insight, and reflection. 
C)  wisdom is the result of data collection and interpretation. 
D)  None of the above

Question 10

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?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Choose a clinical scenario from your recent...

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  informatics wisdom. 
B)  informatics competency. 
C)  the DIKW paradigm. 
D)  essential practice.

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Heart monitor 
B)  Electronic nursing journal 
C)  Electronic health record 
D)  Clinical practice guideline

Question 13

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.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Imagine you are in a social situation...

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)  enhance computer programming skills. 
B)  discuss informatics knowledge and skills. 
C)  improve the quality of patient care. 
D)  All of the above

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  acquiring knowledge. 
B)  processing knowledge. 
C)  using feedback. 
D)  generating knowledge.

Question 18

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:

Accepted Answer

A)  building a foundation of knowledge. 
B)  processing knowledge. 
C)  processing wisdom. 
D)  developing wisdom.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  knowledge viability. 
B)  knowledge generation. 
C)  knowledge dissemination. 
D)  knowledge acquisition.

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

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.

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: