A nurse is teaching the staff about informatics. Which ...

[colton]

A nurse is teaching the staff about informatics. Which information from the staff indicates the nurse needs to follow up?
 
  a. To be proficient in informatics, a nurse should be able to discover, retrieve, and use information in practice.
  b. A nurse needs to know how to find, evaluate, and use information effectively.
  c. If a nurse has computer competency, the nurse is competent in informatics.
  d. Nursing informatics is a recognized specialty area of nursing practice.

Question 2

A nurse is providing care to a group of patients. Which situation will require the nurse to obtain a telephone order?
 
  a. As the nurse and health care provider leave a patient's room, the primary care provider gives the nurse an order.
  b. At 0100, a patient's blood pressure drops from 120/80 to 90/50, and the incision dressing is saturated with blood.
  c. At 0800, the nurse and health care provider make rounds, and the primary care provider tells the nurse a diet order.
  d. A nurse reads an order correctly as written by the health care provider in the patient's medical record.

[dellikani2015]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
When the staff make an incorrect statement, then the nurse needs to follow up. Competence in informatics is not the same as computer competency. All the rest are correct information so the nurse does not need to follow up. To become competent in informatics, you need to be able to use evolving methods of discovering, retrieving, and using information in practice. This means that you learn to recognize when information is needed and have the skills to find, evaluate, and use that information effectively. Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates the use of information and computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practice, including direct delivery of care, administration, education, and research.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Telephone orders and verbal orders (VO) usually occur at night or during emergencies (blood pressure dropping); they should be used only when absolutely necessary and not for the sake of convenience. Because the time is 1 AM (0100 military time) and the health care provider is not present, the nurse will need to call the health care provider for a telephone order. A VO involves the health care provider giving orders to a nurse while they are standing in proximity to one another. Just reading an order that is correctly written in the chart does not require a telephone order.

[colton]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[Chelseyj.hasty]

Excellent