The manager is reviewing informatics competencies for each level of staff nurse. Which statement indicates the appropriate level of informatics competencies to the correct nurse?
A) An informatics nurse extrapolates data to develop a best practice model for indwelling catheter care.
B) The novice nurse uses a spreadsheet to document medication reactions.
C) An experienced staff nurse creates databases.
D) A beginning nurse utilizes the Internet to integrate multidisciplinary languages.
A) An informatics nurse extrapolates data to develop a best practice model for indwelling catheter care.
Explanation: A) An informatics innovator is expected to be educationally prepared to conduct informatics research and generate informatics theory and have advanced understanding and skills in information management and computer technology.
B) A beginning nurse is expected to have fundamental information management and computer-technology skills and use existing information systems and established information-management practices.
C) An experienced nurse is expected to have a specific area of expertise, be skilled in using information management and computer technology, have strong analytic skills to learn from relationships between different data elements, and be able to collaborate with the informatics nurse specialist to suggest improvement to systems. Database creation is beyond the skill level of the experienced nurse.
D) Beginning nurses are comfortable with basic skills and should be able to retrieve information from the system, as well as interpret data. An experienced nurse is prepared to use the Internet to integrate multidisciplinary languages.
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