WGU D220 OA 2 ATTEMPT STUDY
QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT
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Line graphs are used for-Quantatitive Answer - showing change over time (blood pressure, temperature) Histograms are used for (Quantitive) Answer - Showing quantitative data organised into classes (e.g. ages of people in years; 0-9, 10 -19, 20 - 29) Flu Virus by date of hospital admission The HITECH Act of 2009 provides the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the authority to establish programs to improve health care quality, safety, and efficiency through the promotion of health IT, including electronic health records and private and secure electronic health information exchange. Answer - True. The HITECH Act directs healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records and improved privacy and security protections for healthcare data. It offers financial incentives and imposes penalties depending on compliance measures achieved or missed.The HITECH Act was created not only to support the implementation of electronic health records and the development of health information technology, but also to support HIPAA rules and regulations related to security, privacy, and confidentiality of protected health information.What does "HITECH Act" stand for? Answer - Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act is the correct definition of the abbreviated "HITECH Act." Under HIPAA, the definition of a business associate is an individual or organization that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information (PHI) on behalf of a covered entity. State three examples of a business associate. Answer -
Correct responses would consist or any three of the following: medical billing
company a third party that assists with claims processing transcription service individual or company legal service individual or company accounting individual or company encryption service provider file sharing vendor backup storage vendor IT support vendor shredding or file disposal vendor In the four-component model of ethics, ethical judgment is the ability to recognize an ethical problem Answer - False Ethical judgment, or decision-making, is a deliberative process reflecting knowledge of ethical principles, theories, and codes. 1 / 2
While working as part of the implementation team for an organization's electronic medical record (EMR), the informatics nurse notes that access to a patient's record is open to any user of the system, regardless of role.Which ethical implication should the nurse consider that could negatively affect the organization and its patients? Answer - Privacy, Security and Confidentiality Provision 2 of the ANA Code of Ethics states that the nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, or community.Which statement describes how the informatics nurse (IN) adheres to this code?Answer - The IN considers the probable outcomes of decisions about data collection as they relate to issues of protection of the privacy, security, and confidentiality of patient information.During the testing phase of a new predictive model of care designed to identify clinical decline in patients, the informatics nurse notes that there are many failure points in the model's design that have not passed testing. The release date for this new functionality has been set and communication to the organization has been released. The nurse is troubled by this discovery. State two courses of actions that the informatics nurse should take. Answer - Ideal responses would incorporate at least two of the following: Report the failures in testing to the immediate supervisor.Recommend defer the release of the new functionality until it passes testing completely. Confer with technical experts in the team to review the cause of the failure points. Continue with testing until it passes, and no further failure points are seen.True or False Trends that will influence the expansion of the informatics nurse's scope of practice
include the following:
changing practice roles in nursing increasing informatics competence requirements for all nurses rapidly evolving technology regulatory changes and quality standards that include healthcare consumers as partners in healthcare model evolving marketing trends Answer - False:Rather than evolving marketing trends, evolving care delivery models and innovation will influence the informatics nurse's scope of practice.As the scope of health informatics grows, so will the scope of practice of informatics nurses.Which area is it highly likely that informatics nurses will be seeing their responsibilities grow in as they relate to the specialty's development and support of its use? Answer - As the management of patient care moves toward the more aggressive use of evidence-based predictive models, the informatics nurse will become more involved and highly needed in designing and facilitating workflows, practice changes, and care models to improve patient outcomes.Healthcare data is a valuable commodity. Because it is used to benefit the delivery of healthcare, there are many ways to maximize its value.
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