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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 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?

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?

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 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?

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?

After upgrading to a new EHR system, the software used can determine dosages for prescription medications without the need for manual calculation. What kind of errors should be expected with such a platform and is it advantageous?

. It is determined that a patient's latest EHR entry is missing notes on associated pathology results. Which system should be used to identify the time specific results for the associated visit?

A patient is coughing up blood and has night sweats, fever, chest pain, and fatigue. The physician assistant (PA) suspects the patient may have tuberculosis; therefore, she orders a TB blood test Where, within the clinical information system, should the PA request this test to appropriately diagnose and treat the patient?

A patient is unaware that their health information is readily available, in real time, through the patient portal. Which method is most efficient to answer non-emergency inquiries instead of manually calling?

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?