An emergency room nurse has a patient with the flu, whose respiratory rate is wavering and whose body temperature is escalating periodically. The nurse wants to accese a clinical data source that regularly and systematically collects, analyses, and interprets data on infectious diseases to research disease-prevention and control information related to the patient's condition.
Which clinical data source will meet the nurse's needs?

A medical facility wants to reduce the occurrences of errors in diagnosis and treatment by providing the option of alerts when nurses perform order entries. The facility wants the alerts to distinguish between e- threatening concerns and those with minor consequences.
Which health information technology tool will allow such an option?

A nurse at Cedar Bend Hospital always seems to forget her password. As a solution, she has written her password on a piece of paper and keeps it taped to her monitor at the nursing station for ease of access. A patient noticed the note with the password and, when the nurse was away from her desk, he accessed his own records.
What could have been done to prevent protected health information from being compromised in this scenario?

A nurse wants to conduct an Internet search because a patient is experiencing vital-sign fluctuations.
Which statement about this source of clinical data is correct?

A patient has symptoms of itching and genital warts. The nurse believes the patient may have human papilloma virus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease. The nurse practitioner orders a pap smear in which a sample is collected and tested for HPV. After a couple of hours, the nurse practitioner wants to check the results so that she can appropriately treat and understand the patient's condition. Where, within the clinical information system, should the nurse practitioner review the pap smear results to verify whether the patient has HPV?

Knowledge of the levels of evidence in healthcare research is important to nurses, because this can ultimately lead to an improvement in the quality of care. Which source of information is most likely to be based on high levels of evidence?

Which clinical information system is used by medical professionals to enhance decision making with the help of data collected from other clinical information systems

A patient was mistakenly prescribed a higher dosage of benzodiazepines than intended, because of a copy-pasting error. Having identified this mistake prior to the delivery of their medication, which information system should be used to identify the order?

Fielder Medical Center is very unhappy with the electronic health record system that it currently has in place. The nurses and healthcare staff are constantly complaining that the system freezes up and crashes consistently, which seems to be due to the size of the facility causing the system to become overload regularly. The representatives of the electronic health record system stated that a test was run to assess the response rates prior to the launch However, it was done during the weekend when the staff were placing the lightest load on the system.
Which test should have been done to ensure that speed and performance would not become degraded or overloaded to support the large medical center's capacity fully?

Western View Hospital is launching a new electronic health record system. Until now, the hospital kept hard copies of all health records. Since this transition to an electronic format would impact many areas of the hospital, the facility has decided to assign tasks to each department for evaluating how to most effectively transition to adoption of the new electronic system
Which quality improvement tool should the hospital use to approach launching the new electronic record system?

The nurses at Western View Hospital were asked to provide feedback regarding a new computerized order entry system that the hospital would like to implement Before allowing the system to go fully live, the nurses de a test run to check how it will perform. The nurses state that the computerized order entry system requires too many clicks to get to the correct screen and the screens are difficult on the eyes.
Which type of testing should Western View Hospital perform to identify these challenges?