When would it be appropriate for a nurse to use a Geographic Information System (GIS)?
a. Recording client data collected at a foot clinic
b. Determining neighborhoods that have an increased incidence of lead poisoning
c. Evaluating effectiveness of a farm safety program
d. Scheduling health promotion programs in the community
ANS: B
The use of a GIS allows the PHN to apply the principles of epidemiology into practice. GIS al-lows nurses to code data so that it is related spatially to a place on earth and is helpful in deter-mining concentrated areas for incidence of disease and illness. An electronic health record (EHR) would be the most appropriate place to record client data from a foot clinic. Evaluation of effec-tiveness of a farm safety program would need to be done through some type of assessment or evaluation method—GIS would not be useful to collect this data. GIS is not a scheduling system and would not be helpful when scheduling health promotion programs in the community.
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