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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 has a patient with a low pulse oxygen level, who is struggling to breathe without a nebulizer. The nurse wants to use a clinical data source to access research studies regarding meta-analyses and systematic reviewsWhich clinical data source will provide this type of access?

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?

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?

A patient is interested in purchasing over-the-counter medication and wants to confirm whether there are potential contraindications. Which method would be the most efficient when assisting this patient?

In which situation should a gap analysis be used?

A patient has a pus-filled lesion on her lower leg accompanied by a fever. The nurse believes the patient may have methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can be easily spread through physical contact appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is not wain. Where, within the clinical information system, should the nurse record this precaution to ensure that others will wear the appropriate PPE when interacting with this patient?

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?

A patient has traditionally made calls to schedule visits. Although they are enrolled in the patient portal, they prefer not to use it due to difficulty in navigating the platform. What change to the patient's application would increase ease of use for them?

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?

Recently, several backlogged databases have resulted in errors on EHR. Which information system would a systems engineer or IT utilize to identify software that have not been updated?