The novice nurse is questioning a designated superuser about advancements in nursing informatics and how they might affect research in nursing. Which of the following is the superuser nurse's best response?
1. "It will continue to be difficult to show the relationship between client outcomes and staffing ratios."
2. "Nursing interventions will be more easily evaluated to see how they affect client outcomes."
3. "There still will be no way to adequately prove that an increase in nurses' educational levels translates to better client outcomes."
4. "There is still a certain amount of statistical work that will need to be performed with paper and pencil, even with advancements in nursing informatics."
Answer: 2
Rationale: Advancements in nursing informatics will help make nursing research more meaningful and reliable. Information and knowledge can be communicated more easily and in a faster way. It will be much easier to show how staffing levels affect client outcomes. Nursing research will be able to show how nursing interventions affect client outcomes. Researchers will be able to show how nurses' educational levels affect client outcomes. Statistical work can be done on the computer without any need for paper-and-pencil calculations.
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