The best estimate of the number of informatics nurses needed over the next few years is which of the following?
1. 500 to 1500
2. 6000 to 12,000
3. 2000 to 5000
4. 15,000 to 25,000
2
Rationale: Your chosen response is too low. Projections for the number of informatics nurses needed over the next few years range from 6000 to 12,000. Nursing, health care, clinical informatics graduate programs, and biomedical informatics programs collectively lag behind projected needs.
You might also like to view...
Which of the following patient goals is most appropriate when managing the patient dying of cancer? The patient will:
1) Request pain medication when needed. 2) Report or demonstrate satisfactory pain control. 3) Use only nonpharmacologic measures to control pain. 4) Verbalize understanding that it may not be possible to control his pain.
The labor nurse is reviewing the cardinal maneuvers with a group of nursing students. Which maneuver will immediately follow the birth of the baby's head?
a. Expulsion b. Restitution c. Internal rotation d. External rotation
A client is admitted to the emergency department in a hypertensive crisis. The client's spouse said the client ate food containing tyramine. The nurse immediately rules out which types of drugs as the cause of the client's hypertensive crisis?
1. Tetracycline 2. Warfarin (Coumadin) 3. Calcium channel blockers 4. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
How many stools per day are considered the upper limits of normal?
a. Two b. Three c. Five d. Seven