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NR 599: Introduction to
Nursing Informatics Final
Examination
Answer all questions directly on the examination. There are no trick questions. Every
multiple-choice question has ONLY one correct answer.
This examination is worth 250 points. Each multiple choice/true-false question is
worth 3.5 points. The single essay question is worth 5 points.
Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
- Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into a
single hospital information system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems
b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the
continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are incompatible
with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals
& Health Care Organizations to maintain specific information for billing &
accreditation purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in comprehensive patient
records - Which of the following groups of activities represent challenges to the
technologist when building an integrated hospital information system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting
all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, realigning traditional
departments into a case management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting
all departments to agree to a single care model, realigning traditional
departments into a case management model
c. Allowing specific departments to retain their individualized information
systems, getting all departments to agree to a single billing procedure,
realigning traditional departments
into a case management model
d. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive whole, getting
all departments to agree to a single billing procedure, keeping all hospital
departments within the traditional vertical structure
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e. Allowing all departments to retain their individual information systems,
allowing all departments to have their own billing system, keeping all
hospital departments separate but equal
- The conceptual components of informatics are:
a. Management, processing, &
transformation b. Data, information, &
paradigms
c. Data, information, &
knowledge
d. Management, processing, &
data
e. Management, processing, & knowledge - Several colleges have suggested that Wikipedia™ be banned as a resource for
academic papers. Which of the following statements support that ban?
a. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered a primary source of information
b. Wikipedia™ cannot be considered an authoritative source of
information
c. Wikipedia™ is sometimes unreliable
d. Wikipedia™ allows almost anyone to edit most of its
articles
e. All of the above - When would you use the word “and” in a literature search?
a. When you want to eliminate citations with a certain term in the title
b. When only one of multiple search terms must be in the title of
the citation
c. When all of multiple search terms must be in the title of the
citation
d. When you want to index a particular article
e. When you want the abstract of the citations to be included in the literature
search - What is a refereed journal?
a. Any scholarly journal
b. Any journal with a title that begins with “The Journal of…”
c. A journal that uses a blind review process to determine the suitability and
worth of articles received for publication
d. Any journal that can be found on Ohio Link or through Kelvin Smith Library
e. Any journal edited by someone with a Ph.D.
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- Several indexes to scholarly literature can be found in the library. Which one of
these indexes has the most applicability to the profession of Nursing?
a. MEDLARS
b. MEDLINE
c. ERIC
d. CINAHL
e.SocialSciSearh - Why are informatics nurse specialists and nurse scholars so interested in
nursing nomenclatures, taxonomies, and classification?
a. It gives them something
to do
b. The information is used to capture, store, and manipulate data in electronic
health records
c. It enhances the credibility of the profession
d. It allows nurses to clearly define the profession for
physicians
e. All of the above - How many classification systems are recognized by the American Nurses
Association?
a. Six
b. Four
c. Thirteen
d. Seven
e. None - Which three data sets must be used together to complete the nursing process?
a. NANDA, Clinical Care Classification (CCC), International Classification
of Nursing
Practice (ICNP)
b. NANDA, Nursing Intervention Classification, Patient Care
Data Set
c. NANDA, Nursing Outcome Classification, SNOMED RT
d. NANDA, Nursing Intervention Classification, Nursing Outcome
Classification
e.NANDA, Omaha System,SNOMED
RT