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An emergency room nurse has a patient with the flu, whose respiratory rate is wavering and whose body temperature is escalating periodically. The nurse wants to accese a clinical data source that regularly and systematically collects, analyses, and interprets data on infectious diseases to research disease-prevention and control information related to the patient's condition.Which clinical data source will meet the nurse's needs?

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 experiencing sudden bouts of shortness of breath. The physician assistant (PA) wants to use a source of clinical data to collaborate with other healthcare providers in evaluating the patient's fluctuating vital signs. The PA decides to use Wikipedia.com.Which statement about this source of clinical data is correct?

Which administrative information system is the primary determinant of scheduling availability for other administrative and clinical information systems?

A skilled nursing facility hospital utilizes paper and pen when nurses chart patient records. The nurses who work at this facility have brought to the administration's attention the problems that regularly occur when patient information is transferred to different locations, whether between floors or organizations. The nurses have also elaborated on the potential for paper charts to be susceptible to damage, less, or the Which health information technology tool should the facility adopt to address the nurses' concerns?

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?

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?

Fielder Medical Center is very unhappy with the electronic health record system that it currently has in place. The nurses and healthcare staff are constantly complaining that the system freezes up and crashes consistently, which seems to be due to the size of the facility causing the system to become overload regularly. The representatives of the electronic health record system stated that a test was run to assess the response rates prior to the launch However, it was done during the weekend when the staff were placing the lightest load on the system.

Which test should have been done to ensure that speed and performance would not become degraded or overloaded to support the large medical center's capacity fully?

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?

Radiology recently hired new residents, one of which has misplaced MRI scans for an upcoming patient visitation. Which data system should be used to acquire these scans prior to the visit?

A physician office would like to adopt a tool that would provide it the opportunity to collect images and monitor luminal fluid and the contents of each gut segment, including metabolites, electrolytes, hormones, enzymes, and microbial communities, via smartphones, which are easily observed online and reviewed by patients and physicians.Which tool will allow the physician office these options?