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NURS 120: Introduction
to Nursing Informatics
Final Examination
Answer all questions directly on the examination. There are no trick
questions. Every multiple-choice question has ONLY one correct answer.
This examination is worth 250 points. Each multiple choice/true-false
question is worth 3.5 points. The single essay question is worth 5
points.
Part I: Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital
departments into a single hospital information system?
a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain
specialized systems b. Hospital departments are organized
along vertical lines while the
continuum of care for patients flows along horizontal lines
c. Patient care systems & financial management systems are
incompatible with each other
d. Each department is required by law & the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals
& Health Care Organizations to maintain specific information for
billing
& accreditation purposes
e. Individual departments do not see the value in
comprehensive patient records
2. Which of the following groups of activities represent
challenges to the technologist when building an integrated
hospital information system?
a. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive
whole, getting all departments to agree to a single billing
procedure, realigning traditional departments into a case
management model
b. Synthesizing different types of information into a cohesive
whole, getting all departments to agree to a single care model,
realigning traditional departments into a case management
