Informatics Nurse Test Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. Which type of telehealth involves asynchronous communication where health data is collected and reviewed at a later time? → Store-and-forward telehealth
2. In stakeholder analysis for a nursing informatics project, identifying stakeholders' level of influence and interest helps the project manager to: → Prioritize communication strategies and engagement efforts appropriately
3. Clinical documentation burden reduction in EHR optimization is a priority because excessive documentation time: → Contributes to clinician burnout and reduces time available for direct patient care
4. A type II error in clinical research means: → Failing to detect a true difference that actually exists (false negative)
5. Adult education primarily consists of: → self-directed
6. A project scope creep in an informatics project refers to: → Uncontrolled expansion of project requirements beyond the original scope
7. Which federal agency primarily establishes reimbursement policies for Medicare telehealth services? → CMS
8. A patient uses a wearable device that continuously tracks heart rate and transmits alerts when arrhythmias are detected. This is an example of: → Remote patient monitoring
9. The phrase 'garbage in, garbage out' in clinical data analytics means: → The quality of analytical outputs is directly dependent on the quality of input data
10. The practice of reviewing and streamlining EHR order sets, alerts, and documentation templates to improve efficiency is known as: → Post-live optimization
11. In HIE governance, a Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement (DURSA) establishes: → Mutual obligations and rules for how participants can access and use shared data
12. Which metric best evaluates the clinical effectiveness of a remote patient monitoring program for heart failure patients? → 30-day hospital readmission rate
13. What is the purpose of a data dictionary in clinical analytics? → To provide standardized definitions, formats, and valid values for each data element
14. In nursing informatics, which term describes the process of transforming raw clinical data into actionable knowledge? → The DIKW (Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom) framework
15. In the context of HIE, a Record Locator Service (RLS) is used to: → Identify which organizations hold records for a specific patient
16. When presenting clinical analytics data to nursing leadership, which visualization is BEST for showing trends over time? → Line chart or run chart
17. In population health management, stratifying patients by risk level allows informatics nurses to: → Target high-risk patients for proactive interventions to prevent adverse outcomes
18. Which certification is specifically designed for nurses who specialize in informatics? → RN-BC (Nursing Informatics)
19. Which data governance principle ensures that the same clinical data element means the same thing across all systems? → Data standardization
20. Which organization's Scope and Standards of Practice most directly guides the informatics nurse's professional role in telehealth implementation? → American Nurses Association (ANA)
21. In general, a system with fine granularity has: → increased overhead
22. A patient who has opted out of HIE participation has their data: → Excluded from being shared through the HIE network per their preference
23. When a CDSS recommendation conflicts with an established institutional protocol, the informatics nurse should: → Escalate the conflict to the CDS governance committee for reconciliation
24. Which type of clinical decision support (CDS) tool alerts a prescriber when an ordered drug dose exceeds a safe threshold? → Dosing alert
25. In the context of nursing informatics, 'interoperability' means: → Different health IT systems can exchange and use information meaningfully
26. Which EHR usability principle refers to designing the system so that errors are difficult to make and easy to recover from? → Error prevention and recovery
27. What role does the informatics nurse play in telehealth workflow design? → Aligning technology functions with clinical workflow needs and patient safety standards
28. Which term describes the ability of an EHR to prompt a nurse with the next recommended action based on evidence-based guidelines? → Active clinical decision support
29. Change management in EHR projects primarily focuses on: → Preparing, supporting, and guiding people through organizational transitions
30. The informatics nurse should anticipate the following when applying Lewin's theory of change to the implementation of an EHR during the "unfreeze" stage: → deal with resistance and provide reassurance