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Nursing Informatics
Chapter 21 Using Informatics to Promote Community/Population Health
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
05/15/2012

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How is Public Health Informatics differ from that of Nursing Informatics?
Definition
[image] PHI focus is on the promotion of health and disease prevention in populations and communities
[image] Nursing Informatics focus is on the changes the social conditions that affect the community
[image] PHI addresses how nursing computer and cognitive sciences affect nursing practice
[image] Nursing Informatics includes the knowledge of political science and law
Term
____________ seeks to determine the type of health problems could be caused by exposure to a potentially hazardous material
Definition
[image] Exposure Assessment
[image] Hazardous Identification
[image] Dose-Response Assessment
[image] Risk Characterization
Term
To determine if there is an early outbreak of a disease, the Center for Disease Control can track which one of the following?
Definition
[image] Feeling ill while at work
[image] Order of Chest X-rays
[image] Increased purchase of health care products
[image] Assessment findings of health care providers
Term
What would be an important need for Public Health Informatics regarding data, collection?
Definition
[image] Collect information by paper/pencil to be entered into computer system
[image] One centralized IT department
[image] Use of the same computer programs
[image] Standardized vocabulary and coding structure
Term
Public Informatics has a major benefit for PH officials, clinicians and patients this is
Definition
[image] Dissemination of prevention guidelines and communities
[image] The offer of real time surveillance data
[image] The investigation and emergencies will be managed with the tools of informatics
[image] The ability to store information on exposures
Term
What Data to collect should not be the focus of Public Health Informatics but how it is
Definition
[image] stored and reviewed
[image] collected and shared
[image] formatted and disseminated
[image] analyzed and interventions determined
Term
With the use of Public Health Informatics, it will promote the ever increasing need for ____________ information about the health of communities, states and countries
Definition
[image] balancing
[image] promoting
[image] timely
[image] conservative
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