Exam 13: Caring and Communicating in Nursing With Technology

You are in the process of designing a patient education program that will provide education and monitoring for patients with hypertension.To support your planning,you obtain and present patient data from which of the following?

Nurses need to know how to operate a computer,compare data across time,and look for patterns in patient responses to treatments.These are examples of which of the following?

Peggy,a nurse leader on a busy medical surgical unit,is concerned that the rapid expansion in use of EHRs and clinical decision support systems may lead to leaked patient information and breach of confidentiality.She decides to form a nurse led committee to address these concerns.Which of the following must be addressed to prevent breach of confidentiality? (Select all that apply.)

The chief nursing officer understands that to be able to compare data across patient populations and sites,it is important that nurses use:

As a nurse manager in a multisite facility,you are comparing the effectiveness of prompted voiding training programs for staff by examining the effect of prompted voiding on the frequency of incontinence in patients.To do this,you access an NMDS,which allows you to:

Nurses rely on technology to lessen the number of adverse events that are well documented,yet are challenged in keeping the unique therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient with increasing use of technology.What approaches can be used to ensure the therapeutic relationship is preserved (Select all that apply.)

When assessing the appropriateness of adopting personal digital assistants (PDAs)for a nursing unit,you need to consider which of the following advantages?

A nurse manager is excited by the possible use of speech recognition (SR)systems for documentation of patient care,especially during crisis situations when staff members need to focus on performing rapid assessments and implementation of procedures.She learns,however,that SR systems would be impractical at this point for this.What characteristic would lead to this conclusion?

The nursing manager of a surgical unit has been asked by administration to evaluate patient outcomes after cardiac catheterization.Using data about patient outcomes after cardiac catheterization for the past 6 months so as to modify practice is an example of:

As a nurse manager,you want to institute point-of-care devices on your unit.The rationale that you provide to support the point-of-care devices includes which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

As the head nurse involved in determining which patient surveillance systems to acquire for your unit,one of your aims is to avoid adverse events through the implementation of appropriate technology.What does this particular aim recognize?

A home health nurse has been assigned to cover a 500-km² area of remote Alberta.Mrs.Banister has just been discharged home and will need daily contacts for the next week.Because it is not possible to visit Mrs.Banister in person every day and see all the other patients,the nurse gives her a laptop computer with Internet meeting software installed.Each morning,both dial in at an agreed-upon time and discuss her progress.The home health nurse assesses whether the patient needs to be seen that day.This type of technology is called:

A nurse manager was orienting new staff members with regard to computerized charting.To understand computerized charting,staff members must understand informatics.Which of the following are the core concepts in informatics?

Leaders in nursing must advocate for information and knowledge systems that support nursing practice.How is this best accomplished?

As a nurse manager representative on a team to select a clinical information system,you would be particularly concerned if the favoured system has which of the following characteristics?

The clinic nurse has just accessed a patient's chart on the computer.The resident comes over and asks her to stay logged on because he needs to add a note to that patient's chart.What should she say?

What is the most critical factor in ensuring nurses' comfort and knowledge in the use of technology in health care regardless of age,education level,or area of practice?

For a nurse manager,one challenge is to orient new staff to the agency's policies and procedures,and also to provide training across various shifts.Which of the following would be a cost-effective and effective learning strategy?