1. Health informatics assists with administrative and clinical functions.

What
are some of the functions available?

a. Dictation, billing collections, complaint processes, and international

investments
b. Financial, corporate investment projects, future innovation projects, and cost
analysis
c. +Data collection and documentation of care
d. Research projects, product performance tracking, personal patient
information

2. Patient's health records are moving from paper to computers using software
that provides the ___.
a. +electronic health record
b. medical research records
c. patients' billing records
d. global medical statistics report

3. Health level 7 standards in healthcare informatics are related to ___.

a. Transfering digital images
b. +The electronic health record
c. Providing healthcare security
d. Accreditation of healthcare facilities

4. One of the benefits of health informatics is the use of clinical decision

support that provides which of the following?
a. Knowledge and information at the point of discharge from the facility to
home
b. +Knowledge and information needed for decisions at vulnerable times of
care
c. Delivery of information to emails within the healthcare system for staff and
providers
d. Detailed reports of the results of staff performance yearly
 5. Which software development approach prebuilds components to quickly
facilitate design?

a. Redundant Array of Disks

b. Rigorous Application Development
c. Rapid Application Design
d. +Rapid Application Development
e. Redundant Array Development

6. Knowledge that is patterned for use in reasoning is known as:

a. artificial intelligence.
b. knowledge query.
c. +knowledge representation.
d. neural computing.

7. Principles of ergonomics include job design, health issues, and:

a. application interface.
b. +end-user interface.
c. programming language.
d. system integration.

8. Which document articulates the primary factors that guide professional nursing
judgment, regarding confidential patient information?
a. Administrative Simplification Provisions.
b. +Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
c. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
d. Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice.

9. Ease of navigation, appropriate language, efficiency of use, ease of learning, and

intuitiveness are all examples of:
a. affective skills.
b. behavioral needs.
c. +system usability.
 d. user ergonomics.

10. Applications that are designed to run on a common platform, operate in a

common environment, and communicate through direct data transfer are known as:
a. + integrate
b. interface
c. normalize
d. optimize

11. Adherence to a standardized nursing language will lead to:

a. a barrier in national interoperability.
b. a larger database of interventions.
c. +improved evaluation of nursing outcomes.
d. increased nursing competencies.

12. The informatics nurse violates a patient's legal right to privacy and
confidentiality by:
a. discussing a patient's diagnosis with an authorized family member.
b. discussing care-related information with the patient's physical therapist.
c. + looking up a colleague's diagnosis and laboratory results while he or she is
hospitalize
d. providing a handoff report containing patient information to another
department.

13. Using parallel strategy for the roll-out of an electronic medication

administration system means that all:
a. data entries are cosigned by two health care team members.
b. + medications are documented using both the current method and the new
system.
c. notebook computers and bar code scanners are positioned on the same
surface.
d. vital signs are entered on the same screen as is medication administration.
14. In project management, the critical path is best described as a series of
activities that:
 includes the path with the most slack or float.
+ indicates the earliest possible time a project can be complete
 is scheduled for the next current phase of the process.
 shows the shortest path through the network diagram.

15. The foundation of strategic system planning begins with a review of the:
 existing computing environment.
 health care industry.
 information system plan.
 +organization's mission and vision.

16. The focus of data analysis is to:

 collect data from various sources.
 evaluate data for efficiency.
identify data sources for later inclusion.
+ transform data into a usable form.

17. Which tool tracks resources, milestones, and time frames associated with the
implementation of a new clinical program?
 A database.
 An expert system.
 +Project management software.
 Spreadsheet software.
18. What process produces a blueprint that details how hardware and software
meet the needs of the organization?
 Benchmarking.
 Feasibility study.
 System analysis.
 +System design.

19. A downtime of the electronic health record (EHR) system is planned for three
months from today. The informatics nurse is formulating a communication plan for
the clinical staff about the downtime. The nurse plans to:
 announce the upcoming downtime at system-wide meetings, and at department
meetings of specific system hospitals affected by the downtime.
 bring copies of the communication plan to IT meetings, and discuss it with the IT
directors and managers.
 +present the information at the super-user meetings, department and unit
meetings, and at other specialty clinician meetings, in addition to having a message
posted on the message-of-the-day screen in the EHR.
 print fliers with the downtime plan and post them in bathrooms and breakrooms,
as well as on bulletin boards in various locations in the hospitals.

20. Adult learners most effectively learn about a new clinical information system
when the instructor:
 assumes that the learner knows nothing about the system.
 begins the formal training as early as possible in the implementation process.
 emphasizes the technical specifications of the structure of the system.
+ encourages the learner to use previous experience to interpret new learning.

21. As an ambulatory provider reviews the patient's chart, the provider reads lab
data from an external organization.  This scenario exemplifies:
+ a health information exchange.
 a system to update patient records.
 a violation of privacy regulations.
 an electronic health record.

22. The problems of an existing system have been identified, along with possible
solutions. What is the next step in the systems analysis stage?
 +A feasibility study.
 Requirements gathering.
 Systems design.
 Systems testing.

23. What type of testing is performed on functionally grouped components to

ensure that the subset works with the entire system?
+ Integration.
 System.
 Unit.
 User acceptance.

24. The informatics nurse is working on a chart to demonstrate the increasing

incidence of obesity in the patient population at a health clinic. The data will
represent patients who are of normal weight, overweight, obese, and morbidly
obese, and it will include the percentage of the total population for each group.
This type of data is most effectively represented by a:
 bar chart.
 column chart.
 line chart.
 +pie chart.
25. Integrating clinical practice guidelines with an electronic health record
facilitates quality improvement measurement by:
 +comparing guideline parameters to clinical outcomes.
 presenting results at the point of treatment decisions.
 providing reference information to measurement staff.
 representing patient acuity data.

26. System analysis is the process by which:

 a proposed design is reviewed for feasibility.
 potential vendor solutions are explore
 the management needs are identified.
+ the system's functional requirements are derived from users' needs.

27. The informatics nurse who is leading an evidence-based practice (EBP)

initiative knows that a key factor for a successful project includes:
 celebrating success primarily by acknowledging the senior leadership team for
their support of the project.
 developing clinical tools, such as guidelines or order sets, after the EBP initiative
has been adopted by staff.
 +establishing a formal implementation team that includes both staff and graduate-
level or higher nurses.
 implementing on a large scale across the organization, as opposed to pilot testing
on smaller units first.

28. A computer system may be categorised as a:

+General purpose or special purpose
Embedded computers
Game consoles and server
Super computers and main frames
29. Expand the acronym ALU
Arithmetic Ligic Unit
Arithmetic Log Unit
+Arithmetic Logic Unit
Aluminate Logic Unit

30. Main memory is also known as:

+Immediate access storage
Secondary Storage
PROM
RAM

31. Which of the following best suits the statement below? It's the main memory
of the computer system and is volatile.
+RAM
ROM
PROM
Primary storage

32. An _______ attempt to gain access to information about a company's plans,

products, clients, or trade secrets.
Computer fraud
Identity theft
Credit card fraud
+Industrial espionage
33. All of the following are processing modes except:
Batch processing
Time-sharing
Online
+Process

34. What are types of user interface?

File management, memory management, device management
General purpose, customized, integrated
+Menu driven, command driven, graphical user interface
System application, software application, system software

35. What does SATA stands for?

+Serial Advanced Technology Attachments
Small Advanced Technology Attachments
Serial Advanced Technical Attachments
Small Advanced Technical Attachments

36. All are secondary storage media except:

Floppy diskette
+Compact disk
Magnetic hard disk
Flash memory cards and Fkash drives

37. Two basic functions of a computer system are

Wordprocessing and Spreadsheet
Sending email and web browsing
+Sending and receiving information
Mouse and keyboard

38.What is the difference between data and information?

Computers process information, not data
Information is the representation of data on a computer.
+Data is the representation of information.
Both are the same

39. Which of the following are disadvantages of computerizing a system?

+Resentment toward the system from staff members and the possibility of hacking
Accuracy and health risks
Dependency on the system and storage of large volumes of data
Consistency

40. Which of the following are hardware items?

Motherboard
CPU
RAM
+All the above