Practice Question
A nurse is discussing how client safety is affected by information management technology with a newly licensed nurse. Which of the following statements should the nurse include?
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Correct Answer:
"Information management technology assists with compliance of practice guidelines."
Rationale:
🔷 Information management technology (like EHRs, order sets, and clinical decision support) can embed evidence-based practice guidelines directly into the workflow.
🔷 Tools such as standardized order sets, reminders, and alerts help nurses and providers follow current clinical protocols consistently.
🔷 This improves client safety by reducing variation in care and ensuring high-risk steps are not missed (e.g., allergy checks, vaccine prompts).
🔷 Technology can also automatically track whether required screenings or interventions have been completed, supporting ongoing compliance.
🔷 Therefore, it is correct to say that information management technology helps with adherence to practice guidelines and promotes safer care.
"Information management technology can increase direct client care time."
🔷 In reality, information management technology often competes with direct client care time because nurses must spend time documenting and navigating systems.
🔷 While long-term efficiency may improve, many clinicians report that EHRs can be time-consuming and may actually reduce face-to-face client time.
🔷 Saying it “can increase direct client care time” oversimplifies and misrepresents a known challenge in clinical practice.
🔷 Technology can streamline some processes, but it is not guaranteed to increase direct care time without thoughtful design and workflow changes.
🔷 Thus, this statement is not the most accurate description of its effect on client safety.
"Information management technology decreases the burden of disease."
🔷 Disease burden is influenced by many factors such as genetics, environment, lifestyle, and access to care.
🔷 Information management technology may indirectly help through better coordination of care, but it does not directly “decrease the burden of disease” in the population.
🔷 The role of technology is more about organizing information, supporting decisions, and tracking data, not curing or lowering disease rates by itself.
🔷 Claiming it “decreases the burden of disease” is too broad and not specifically tied to client safety within clinical practice.
🔷 Therefore, this statement is inaccurate and overstated.
"Information management technology can increase the risk of human errors."
🔷 Information management technology is primarily implemented to reduce human errors, such as medication mistakes, duplication of tests, and miscommunication.
🔷 While poorly designed systems can introduce new types of errors (e.g., click errors, selection errors), the core purpose is to enhance safety, not increase risk.
🔷 The question asks how safety is affected in a teaching context, and the emphasis is typically on its benefits, like decision support and standardization.
🔷 Focusing solely on increased errors does not accurately describe its intended role in information and safety management.
🔷 Thus, this statement is not the best answer, even though technology can create different error patterns.
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Question Details
- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: ATI Exam(s)
- Domain: RN Nursing Informatics📡
- Answer Choices: 4