Assignment 2 - Introduction to Nursing Informatics and History

1. Nursing informatics is a relatively new field, emerging in the late 20th century.

• True
• False

2. The American Nurses Association (ANA) first defined nursing informatics in 1971.

• True
• False

3. The primary focus of nursing informatics is on the development of electronic health records (EHRs).

• True
• False

8. The first nursing informatics certification exam was held in 1994.

• True
• False

9. The term "nursing informatics" was coined by a nurse named Margretta Madden Styles.

• True
• False

11. The ANA defines nursing informatics as a specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and communication technologies.

• True
• False

14. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act had no impact on nursing informatics.

• True
• False

19. The first nursing informatics conference was held in 1981.

• True
• False

20. Nursing informatics is a field that combines nursing knowledge with information management to improve patient care and healthcare systems.

• True
• False

Nursing Informatics is a phrase that evolved from the French word ____which referred to the field of applied computer science concerned with the processing of information such as nursing information

• informatique

• information system

• informat

• informatics