Nursing informatics employs information and computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practice, including research. Which is an example of supporting research?
1. Development of a standardized nursing language
2. Identifying evidence of best clinical nursing practices
3. Familiarity with spreadsheets and statistics software and analysis
4. Housing collected client data within automated record systems
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Rationale: Development of a standard language for use within nursing would allow nurses, from different regions of a country or the world, to establish that they were describing the same phenomenon as well as conduct studies that could be replicated.
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a. assignments. b. staffing. c. output. d. productivity.
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