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clippers! · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A nursing instructor educates a class of student nurses about informational continuity. The nursing instructor lists which of the following as characteristics of informational continuity? (Select all that apply.)

a. It allows for the same client information to be available to providers throughout the health care system.
b. It allows for specific information to follow the client from primary to secondary care settings, but not vice versa.
c. It promotes interrupted flow of data and clinical impressions between health care providers and agencies.
d. Its purpose is to provide continuously coordinated, high-quality care.
e. It refers to data exchanges among providers and provider systems and between providers and clients.

Question 2

A client asks a nurse to explain the Affordable Care Act. When explaining it to the client, the nurse tells the client

a. it will begin in the year 2018.
b. it is state legislation for health care.
c. it emphasizes disease promotion and health prevention.
d. it provides new consumer protections.

iman · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A, D, E
Informational continuity refers to data exchanges among providers and provider systems and between providers and clients for the purpose of providing continuously coordinated, high-quality care. Instant electronic transmission of data links provider to provider, and health care event to health care event. Ideally there is an uninterrupted flow of data and clinical impressions between health care providers and agencies, with clients and their families, over time and space. Specific information follows the client from primary to secondary care settings and vice versa. The same client information is available to providers throughout the health care system.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
In 2010, passage of the Affordable Care Act brought unprecedented attention to the debate on how to best transform the nation's health care system. This historic federal legislation mandates increased access to affordable care, emphasizing the importance of disease prevention and health promotion in primary care settings and providing new consumer protections.