WGU C468 Questions and Answers
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what is information literacy? ✔✔The ability to recognize when info is needed as well as the skills
to find, evaluate, and use the needed info effectively.
How does info l
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WGU C468 Questions and Answers
Already Passed
what is information literacy? ✔✔The ability to recognize when info is needed as well as the skills
to find, evaluate, and use the needed info effectively.
How does info literacy support EBP in nursing? ✔✔Nurses can use research and apply/consult
resources/peers/internet
what is nursing informatics? ✔✔A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and
information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in
nursing practice.
what is information? ✔✔Data that has been interpreted
how is info related to data? ✔✔info is data interpreted
what is information science? ✔✔focus on how to gather, process, and transform info into
knowledge. Incorporates: communication science, computer science, social science, library
science, and cognitive science
How is using the EHR to document care of a patient with a femur fracture an example of using the
EHR in which way? ✔✔Information system. Decubitus ulcer can be documented in the EHR
because of information system
what is information management? ✔✔Elemental process within informatics where one can file,
store, and manipulate data
what is knowledge vs wisdom? ✔✔wisdom is knowledge that is applied in an appropriate manner
What are common features of health info systems? ✔✔Comprehensive medical history, unique
way they function and provide info to clinicians, collect/process/distribute data to manage and
provide care
what ROM is used by a computer when its turned on? ✔✔BIOS input/output system
what is cognitive informatics? ✔✔Study of the connection between the brains and minds way of
collecting and processing info
What is connectionism? ✔✔Component of cognitive science that uses computer modeling thru
artificial neural networks to try and explain human intellectual abilities
what is ethics? ✔✔process of various ways of understanding and examining moral life
what is morals? ✔✔social convention of right and wrong human conduct; forms a general stable
agreement
what is principlism? ✔✔theoretical framework that emerged as a foundation for ethical decision
making
what is usability? ✔✔ease of learning a computer application and other issues of human
performance
what is the metaparadigm? ✔✔key concepts of Person, Nursing, Environment, Health
what is decision support system? ✔✔rule based system that uses a knowledge base and set of rules
to make action recommendations
how can using simulation technology with your patients improve overall outcomes? ✔✔by
allowing hands on practice and immediate feedback of the skill being learned
what are knowledge workers? ✔✔nurses in this type of role are continuous learners, use
technology to support and inform nursing practice, and generate knowledge as a product
what is a nurse's primary resource? ✔✔Information
What should an experienced nurse know how to do? ✔✔Pull trends out of data
What is data mining? ✔✔Data application and sifts thru large amounts of data and looks for
previously hidden trends
what are clinical practice guidelines? ✔✔Examples of clinical decision support tool. Allow for
creation nursing policies.
A nurse sees a flu vaccine due before discharge to meet a clinical pathway. What is this an example
of? ✔✔Promotion of desired outcomes
Which barrier in implementing technology is nursing informatics specialist ignoring personnel?
✔✔Lack of continued support
What is INCP? ✔✔Standardized nursing terminology of nursing diagnoses, actions, and outcomes
What are examples of information technologies? ✔✔CPOE, barcode medication administration,
clinical decision support
what is the name of the processes used by providers to enter orders into an electronic system?
✔✔CPOE
True or false: a radio frequency identifier (RFID) is a type of technology that is used to identify
and track supplies and medication within a healthcare environment? May it also be used to track
medical equipment and patient location? ✔✔True. Yes.
True or false: Clinical pathways and computer generated care plans are examples of how
information can affect nursing practice? ✔✔True
What are nursing informatics? ✔✔use of technology and information to help support all aspects
of nursing practice.
Example of nursing informatics? ✔✔
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