QUESTION The Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) project developed competencies based on work completed by: a. HRSA. b. TIGER. c. IOM. d. AMIA 10×10. ANSWER: ANS: C The QSEN project developed competencies based on work completed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). HRSA, TIGER, and AMIA 10×10 may address informatics competencies, but […]
QUESTION The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has influenced healthcare delivery because it is: a. a training program for informatics specialists. b. an organization that develops informatics competencies. c. an academic electronic health records software. d. federal legislation that promotes the use of electronic health records. ANSWER: ANS: D […]
QUESTION The implementation specialist, practice workflow specialist, and health information exchange specialist are informatics roles identified and described by: a. the ANA Scope and Standards for Nursing Informatics. b. the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. c. ONC’s HITECH Workforce Plan. d. the Department of Commerce’s Standard Occupation Codes. ANSWER: ANS: C The […]
QUESTION Evaluating data from all relevant sources, including technology, to inform the delivery of care is a competency for a(n): a. generalist. b. advanced practice nurse. c. specialist. d. innovator. ANSWER: ANS: A Evaluating data from all relevant sources, including technology, to inform the delivery of care is a competency for a generalist. The […]
QUESTION Cognitive psychology claims that learning involves memory, motivation, thinking, reflection, and abstraction. Which question is instrumental in teaching critical thinking? a. What? b. How? c. Why? d. Who? ANSWER: a. What? b. How? c. Why? d. Who?
QUESTION Educating students about informatics includes working with EHRs and: a. evidence-based practice (EBP). b. interprofessional teams. c. patient safety. d. communication tools. ANSWER: ANS: D Informatics deals primarily working with information and communicating information to others. Therefore communication tools are a necessary component of an informatics education. While the EBP, interprofessional teams, and […]
QUESTION Existing resources that promote meeting the challenge of teaching informatics in the health professional curriculum are: a. sufficient number of trained faculty. b. readily available technical infrastructure. c. teaching materials and assignments. d. simulation and academic electronic health records (AEHRs) software. ANSWER: ANS: C QSEN and ONC have made freely available numerous teaching […]
QUESTION Which two instrumental movements pushed correspondence courses forward? a. The Society to Encourage Studies at Home and Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts b. The invention of the television and cable services c. The development of Web 2.0 tools and the Internet d. Fiber-optic cables and 2-way video communications ANSWER: ANS: A Phase one […]
QUESTION Incorporating usability principles into software configuration and implementation is a competency of: a. the generalist. b. the advanced practice nurse (APN). c. the nursing informatics specialist (INS). d. the implementation support specialist. ANSWER: ANS: D Incorporating usability principles into software configuration and implementation is a competency of the implementation support specialist. This is […]
QUESTION Meaningful Use refers to: a. receiving the EHR incentive payments for Meaningful Use. b. meeting all the Meaningful Use criteria. c. leveraging the EHR to facilitate practice and payment change for healthcare transformation. d. attesting to Meaningful Use. ANSWER: ANS: C Meaningful Use is determining how to leverage the EHR implementation to accomplish […]
