A nursing instructor educates a class of student nurses about informational continuity. The nursing instructor lists which of the following as characteristics of informational continuity? (Select all that apply.)
a. It allows for the same client information to be available to providers throughout the health care system.
b. It allows for specific information to follow the client from primary to secondary care settings, but not vice versa.
c. It promotes interrupted flow of data and clinical impressions between health care providers and agencies.
d. Its purpose is to provide continuously coordinated, high-quality care.
e. It refers to data exchanges among providers and provider systems and between providers and clients.
ANS: A, D, E
Informational continuity refers to data exchanges among providers and provider systems and between providers and clients for the purpose of providing continuously coordinated, high-quality care. Instant electronic transmission of data "links provider to provider, and health care event to health care event." Ideally there is an uninterrupted flow of data and clinical impressions between health care providers and agencies, with clients and their families, over time and space. Specific information follows the client from primary to secondary care settings and vice versa. The same client information is available to providers throughout the health care system.
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