WGU C790 Exam
The integration of health data, computer science, nursing science, and information science to communicate and manage information,
... [Show More] data, knowledge, and wisdom within the nursing realm is known as - Answer Nursing informatics
Nursing informatics is a discipline-specific informatics practice within the broader category of - Answer health informatics
Which foundational science contributes systematic and logical approaches, processes, and procedures for understanding phenomena and solving problems to the study of informatics? - Answer Mathematics
The specialty of health informatics was developed by innovative nurses, physicians, and others. This specialty finds solutions from using which three areas of science? - Answer computers, information, health sciences
Which three activities helped define health informatics? - Answer Health information books and journals, professional organizations and their conferences. university-level education and certification programs
The visual representation that illustrates what is occurring and how one understands the intervention to solve a problem is called a - Answer model
What are two major theories that help us analyze and explain the occurrences or instances of certain phenomena with health informatics? - Answer systems theory, chaos theory
The STEEEP recommendations and redesign principles reflected in health professional education programs to improve the quality of care and are best described as - Answer safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered
The ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation is a model of five points to integrate evidence-based practice into informatics solutions. Which activities represent the five points of the star? - Answer discovery research, evidence summary, translation to guidelines, practice integration, evaluation of process and outcome
The complex interactions among multiple users, products, and environments with varying characteristics in health information technology is referred to as what? - Answer sociotechnical system
Employing usability processes in health information technology helps to improve individual and organizational productivity and efficiency, therefore contributing to - Answer improved patient, clinician, and organizational outcomes
Of four different usability tests, which has the objective of determining which application, design, or product is more effective, efficient, and/or satisfying and can be completed anytime in the systems life cycle? - Answer comparison test
Of four different usability tests, which will interact with users to determine if 80% of the users can retrieve the correct lab results within 10 seconds of interacting with the system and if users can complete admission orders for a patient with no errors? - Answer validation test
Comes in the form of numbers, words, and discrete facts about objective reality. Data can be verified - Answer Data
Comes from providing context to data. It is data that has been endowed with meaning and purpose. - Answer Information
Is the synthesis of multiple sources of information over time to create conceptual frameworks, theories, and axioms - Answer Knowledge
Is a state of awareness, a paradigm or set of principals, it is the ultimate context and frame reference - Answer Wisdom
Describes a hierarchical relationship between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom - Answer DIKW Framework
Is a visual way to capture ideas and how they relate to one another - Answer Mind Mapping
Applies to the role of informatics in that it is critical in supporting a clinician's access to information in the clinical setting - Answer Interoperability
AHRQ - Answer Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
SDLC - Answer Systems Development Life Cycle
QI - Answer Quality Improvement
Thinking that is curious and wanting to know the next step - Answer System Thinking
Is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects (driving toward six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit) in any process from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service. - Answer Six Sigma
You are an informatics nurse specialist at your 200-bed hospital and have been asked to use terminologies within your EHR for nursing care planning. What terminologies would you use? - Answer LOINC, SNOMED CT
LOINC - Answer Logical observation identifiers names and codes
SNOMED CT - Answer Systematized nomenclature of medicine clinical terms
In order to meet the requirements for stage 1 of meaningful use, and EHR system must demonstrate the use of - Answer standardized terminologies and interoperability
IT failure rate is estimated to be - Answer 50-70%
Five steps of SDLC - Answer process planning and requirements definition, analysis, system design, implementation, post-implementation support
In which phase of SDLC is the system customized, tested, and installed> - Answer Implementation
HCIS - Answer Healthcare Information System
EHR - Answer Electronic Health Record
Looks for information, verifies ownership of information, and connects other parties within the healthcare organization - Answer Health informatics nurse professional
Is the ability of two entities, whether those are human or machine, to exchange and predictably use data or information while retaining the original meaning of that data - Answer Interoperability
Is the ability to exchange the data from one point to another - Answer Technical interoperability
Terms that refer to the movement of data that does not necessarily ensure the meaning of the data - Answer Syntactic, functional interoperability
Guarantees that the meaning of the exchanged data remains the same on both ends of the transaction. This is critical for clinical data. - Answer Semantic interoperability
Coordinates business process at the organizational level; allowing the systems to work together - Answer Process interoperability
Is the way that orders have traditionally been initiated for patients. Patient safety is enhanced as orders become legible. - Answer CPOE
CPOE - Answer Computerized physician order entry
Assessing needs of a department or organization using different methods such as surveys, interviews, and report gathering - Answer Needs assessment
A measurement of where a condition, situation, or metric is currently and where it needs to be - Answer Gap analysis
A report stating the conditions of the current state of affairs and where it ideally should be. - Answer Current, future state report
BCMA - Answer bar code medication administration
A comprehensive term that encompasses the notion of wholeness when data is collected, stored, and retrieved by the authorized user. - Answer Data integrity
Is a mechanism provided by the computer system to assist users by promoting them to complete a task, verify information, or prevent entry of inappropriate information - Answer System check
Is the process of controlling the collection, storage, retrieval, and use of data to optimize accuracy and utility while safeguarding integrity - Answer Data management
PHR - Answer personal health record
Is the process of determining what an organization wants to be in the future and planning how it will get there - Answer strategic planning
Is the purpose or reason for the organization's existence and represents the fundamental and unique aspirations that differentiate the organization from others - Answer Mission
Defines the type of activities and services of an organizational mission - Answer Scope
A comprehensive plan that states how its mission, goals, and objectives will be achieved - Answer Strategy
Any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievements or the organization's objectives - Answer Stakeholder
Is a set of practices that, if executed well, will raise the likelihood that a project will succeed. - Answer Project management
SDLC stages - Answer analysis, design, planning, implementation, operation
Refer to the taxonomy when developing maps of the workflows and can use the terms to improve communication with their CDS vendor - Answer CDS implementers
CDS - Answer clinical decision support
Use the taxonomy to identify points in the workflow when CDS can be used and create a CDS tool to fit that context - Answer CDS designers
Create tags based on the taxonomy to enable workflow-related organization and searches - Answer CDS repositories
At the universal level, a unicode of a single taxonomy of nursing, with a single classification scheme will make data entry - Answer have lower costs for data retrieval, more useful, more meaningful
When compared to the "Best of Breed" approach in selecting healthcare information system architecture, the integrated system - Answer Provides applications that are excellent for some areas and less optimal for other areas
A strategy for success management of the implementation of a healthcare information system is to have baseline metrics. This project management activity aligns with which of the following project management implementation steps? - Answer Defining success factors
Is a knowledge management tool that engages software to uncover interrelationships within large data sets - Answer Data mining
EBP - Answer evidence based practices [Show Less]