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Yolanda

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The Joint Commission standards and goals shape organization practice and documentation, thereby affecting information system documentation design. The Joint Commission assesses organizations for compliance with set standards.
 
  Which of the following statements are considered standards? Select all that apply. 1. Measures to protect information confidentiality, security, and integrity
  2. Uniform definitions and methods for data capture as a means to facilitate data comparison within and among health care institutions
  3. Education on the principles of information management and training for system use. This may include education about the transformation of data into information for subsequent use in decision support and statistical analysis.
  4. Accurate, timely transmission of information
  5. Integration of clinical systems (i.e., pharmacy, nursing, laboratory, and radiology systems) and nonclinical systems for ready availability of information

Question 2

Nursing informatics employs information and computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practice, including research. Which is an example of supporting research?
 
  1. Development of a standardized nursing language
  2. Identifying evidence of best clinical nursing practices
  3. Familiarity with spreadsheets and statistics software and analysis
  4. Housing collected client data within automated record systems



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Answer to Question 1

1,2,3,4,5
Rationale: 9. Comparative data. The system can extract information useful to compare the institution against other agencies. Deviations from expected patterns, trends, length of stay, or numbers of procedures performed may be noted.

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Rationale: Development of a standard language for use within nursing would allow nurses, from different regions of a country or the world, to establish that they were describing the same phenomenon as well as conduct studies that could be replicated.





 

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