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Assignment 2 - Introduction to Nursing Informatics and History

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
1. Nursing informatics is a relatively new field, emerging in the late 20th century.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
2. The American Nurses Association (ANA) first defined nursing informatics in 1971.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
3. The primary focus of nursing informatics is on the development of electronic health records (EHRs).
a)
True
b)
False
4.
8. The first nursing informatics certification exam was held in 1994.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
9. The term "nursing informatics" was coined by a nurse named Margretta Madden Styles.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
11. The ANA defines nursing informatics as a specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and communication technologies.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
14. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act had no impact on nursing informatics.
a)
True
b)
False
8.
19. The first nursing informatics conference was held in 1981.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
20. Nursing informatics is a field that combines nursing knowledge with information management to improve patient care and healthcare systems.
a)
True
b)
False
10.

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

a)

informatique

b)

information system

c)

informat

d)

informatics

11.

What Year?

The First Invitational Conference: Management Information Sytem for Public and Community Health Agencies

a)

1970

b)

1971

c)

1972

d)

1973

12.

What Year?

1st Research: State of the Art Conference on Nursing Information System

a)

1977

b)

1987

c)

1997

d)

2007

13.

What Year?

1st Computer Textbook: Computers in Nursing

a)

1980

b)

1990

c)

2000

d)

2010

14.

_______ Is a repository of electronically maintained information about an individual’s health status and health care, stored such that it can serve the multiple legitimate users of the record.

a)

EHR: Electric Health Record

b)

EHR: Environment Health Record

c)

EHR: Electronic Health Record

d)

NONE OF THE ABOVE

15.

It is one of the Nursing Informatics Applications which is applied in the field of Health Care Information Systems that helps to Automate staff scheduling, E-mail for improved communication, Cost analysis, and finding trends for budget purposes and Quality assurance and Outcome analysis.

a)

Nursing Administration

b)

Nursing Admitation

c)

Nursing Research

d)

Patient Education

16.

Transformation of information

a)

Knowledge

b)

Wisdom

c)

Data

d)

Information

17.

Are physical parts of a computer.

a)

Computer System

b)

Computer Hardware

c)

Computer Software

d)

Liveware

18.

Is a collection of entities that are designed to received, process, manage and present in a meaningful format.

a)

Computer System

b)

Computer Hardware

c)

Computer Software

d)

Liveware

19.

Is a type of computer program that is designed to run a computer's hardware and application programs.

a)

System Software

b)

Computer Software

c)

Application Software

d)

Computer System

20.

It refers to a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information and knowledge in the nursing practice

a)

Nursing Informatics

b)

Computer in Nursing

c)

Information Science

d)

Information System