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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?

Western View Hospital is launching a new electronic health record system. Until now, the hospital kept hard copies of all health records. Since this transition to an electronic format would impact many areas of the hospital, the facility has decided to assign tasks to each department for evaluating how to most effectively transition to adoption of the new electronic system.Which quality improvement tool should the hospital use to approach launching the new electronic record system?

. Concerned family members of a patient are curious about the time it will take before the patient can be discharged. Which system should be used to identify this information, assuming that it has been updated recently?

A patient has been coughing for several weeks and has chest pain, fever, and fatigue. The physician assistant (PA) suspects the patient may have tuberculosis. The PA ordered a chest x-ray earlier that day would like to review the results since appropriate infection control and treatment measures need to be taken if the patient is positive. Where, within the clinical information system, should the PA review the chest x-ray results to verify whether the patient has tuberculosis?

Lellani handles all the billing at Dellberg Clinic. She receives dozens of emails per day from insurance companies inquiring about patients' billing activities. One day, she receives an email from an unknown sander with an attachment. She is worried she does not open it, there could be a billing question potentially left unanswered. She decides to open the file attachment in the email. Her computer suddenly receives a notification that the electronic billing system has been infiltrated due to a malware attack.What should Leilani have done to avoid the malware attack?

Which administrative management system is used to evaluate the validity and performance of other data and systems?

The attending in charge of several residents in the EHR has noticed inconsistencies in patient metrics. Some examples include abnormally low platelet counts for patients who never received requests for bloodwork.How should the EHR be reviewed to identify the cause?

What is the aim of translational science?

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 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 teaching hospital regularly hires new radiologists. Since these radiologists do not have a strong level of experience as a new hire, the hospital wants to adopt an evidence-based tool to offer the radiologists data to help them when developing clinical assessments.Which health information technology tool will offer the hospital this option?