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1: Which event was considered to be the first major computerized system(s) used for nursing
practice in the 1970s?
a. Physiological Monitoring Systems in Hospital ICUs
b. Metathesaurus of the National Library of Medicine
c. PLATO designed to teach classes in off-campus sites
d. Army Nurse Corp conducted Educational Workshops

1.2: Which event was a critical milestone for nursing and computers in the 1980s?
a. The Internet emerged for public use
b. Nursing Computer Conference at NIH
c. ANA approved the formation of the Council on Computer Applications in Nursing (CCAN)
d. Faye Abdellah’s published 21 Problems for nursing practice

1.3: Which event was a critical historical nursing and computer milestone in the 1990s?
a. Nurses presented papers at the first SCMC
b. ARRA legislation passed
c. ANA recognized Nursing Informatics as a new nursing specialty
d. Office of National Coordinator established

1.4: Which event in the 2000s became a significant milestone for the promotion of HIT systems
in the United States?
a. Bar Coding Technology emerged
b. RFID Technology emerged
c. ONC was established in 2004 and first ONC Coordinator named
d. MU Stage 1was initiated

1.5: Which event is the most significant for the History Project of Nursing Informatics Pioneers?
a. They video-taped interviews of nurse practitioners
b. Archival material from NI Pioneers was submitted to the NLM for the NI History Collection
c. Developed Use Cases on how to teach NI
d. Developed rules for NI mentorship

1.6: What are the themes from the interviews of the NI Pioneers?
a. They had a vision that technology could make nursing practice better. True ___ False ___
b. They highlighted what nurses brought to the HIS table. True ___ False ___
c. They indicated that they selected a career of NI. True ___ False ___
d. They knew that they were NI experts. True ___ False ___
e. They learned NI through \hands-on experiences. True ___ False ___

1.7: What Nursing Standards have impacted on the nursing profession?

a. Education, Administration, Content, and Practice
b. Practice, Content, Confidentiality and Security, and Education
c. Confidentiality and Security, Research, Practice, and Education
d. Research, Administration, Education, and Practice

1.8: What Nursing content and/or other technological materials are needed in EHRs?
a. SNOMED CT, Abdellah’s 21 Problems, and Nursing Terminologies
b. Nursing Terminologies, Nursing Cannons, and NLM
c. Nursing Process Model, SNOMED CT, and a Coded Nursing Terminology
d. SNOMED CT, Nursing Cannons, Nursing Process
1.9: What historical event initiated the need for computer-
based health records?
a. IOM proposed that CPRs were critical and necessary as a new healthcare technology
b. CPRI was formed to develop technology standards
c. NCVHS proposed technology standards
d. Criteria for Davies Award of Excellence established

1.10: What were the initial criteria for the Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence Program?
a. Impact, Quality Indicators, Management, and EHR
b. Management, Technology, Functionality, and Impact
c. Technology, Impact, Quality Indicators and Management
d. Functionality, Acute Care, Impact, and Quality Indicators

Question 15.1: Which best describes the goal of nursing

informatics?
a. To provide nurses with the data, information and support
for information processing to make effective decisions.
b. To provide programmers with nursing data to process
c. To provide nurses with programming skills
d. To provide IT vendors with nursing practice information
Question 15.2: What is the difference between an Informatics
Nurse (IN) and an Informatics Nurse Specialist (INS)?
a. The IN and the INS have identical preparation
b. The IN requires a BS and the INS requires a MS
c. The IN is one who has experience in Nursing Informatics
and the INS is prepared at the graduate level with specialty
courses in Nursing Informatics, a nursing specialty
d. The IN and INS both require only Nursing Informatics
experience and certification by the ANA
Question 15.3: What is the purpose of Nursing Informatics
Experts’ code of Ethics?
a. To guide all nurses in practice of patient’ rights
b. Used for administration of a healthcare facility
c. Needed in Electronic Health Record Systems
d. Used to guide Meaningful Use
Question 15.4: What does the Nursing informatics Scope and
Standards of Practice include?
a. Provides a definition of Nursing
Informatics True ___ False ___
b. Describes the new nursing specialty True ___ False ___
c. Includes Only four Standards of
Nursing Practice True ___ False ___
d. Describes Non-Nursing Practices True ___ False ___
e. Includes the Nursing Process as
Standards of Practice True ___ False ___
Question 15.5: Even though there has been many definitions of
Nursing Informatics what are the overarching concepts of
this specialty.
a. The core phenomena are the nurse, person, health, and
environment
b. The meta-structures of nursing on data, information,
knowledge, and wisdom
c. It focuses on a well-derived knowledge base, defined
research program, organizational representation
educational
programs and credentialing mechanism
d. A specialty in nursing with a distinct body of knowledge
Question 15.6: Which scholars developed Models of Nursing
Informatics?
a. Graves and Corcoran, Schwirian, Turley, and McGonigle
and Mastrian
b. Schwirian, Graves and Corcoran, Saba and McCormick and
Turley
c. Nelson, Schwirian, and McGonigle and Mastrian, Saba
and McCormick
Question 15.7: What are the four levels of informatics competencies
from novice to expert?
a. Novice Level, Expert Level, Computer Skills, and
Informatics Knowledge
b. Novice Level, Informatics Knowledge, Expert Problem
Solver, and Expert Level
c. Novice level, Advanced Beginner, Competent/ Proficient
level, and Expert Level
d. Novice level, Acceptable Performance, Computer skills,
and Informatics Knowledge
Question 15.8: What are some of the foundations of Nursing
Informatics as a Nursing Specialty?
a. Nursing Science, Information Science, Computer Literacy
and Computer Competencies
b. Computer Science, Information Science, Cognitive Science,
and Communication Science
c. Communication Science, Change Theory, Computer
Science and Computer Literacy
d. Computer Science, Nursing Science, Computer Literacy,
and Computer Competencies.
Question 15.9: Question 15.9: When and who approved in
the ANA Nursing Informatics as a new Nursing Specialty.
a. The ANA Council on Computer Applications in Nursing
(CCAN) developed it in the Fall of 1991 and submitted to
the Congress of Nursing Practice for approval and passage
in 1992
b. The ANA Council on Computers Applications in
Nursing (CCAN) developed it in the Fall of 1992 and
submitted
to the Congress on Nursing Practice for
approval in 1993
Question 15.10: What are the Standards of Practice that an
Informatics Nurse is expected to incorporate in their
practice?
a. Assessment, Problem, Expected Outcome, Interventions,
and Actual Outcomes
b. Care Component, Assessment, Diagnosis, Implementation,
and Outcomes
c. Assessment, Diagnosis, Goal, Planning, Intervention
Actions, and Actual Outcomes
d. Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning,
Implementation, and Evaluation