Nursing Informatics – Lecture & Laboratory

Module #7 Student Activity Sheet

Name: Armee Gay C. Neri

Class number:
Section:C9 Schedule:
Date: 01/28/23

Check for Understanding

After studying the main lesson, you may now answer the following multiple choice questions and provide the rationale for each item.

1. A type of search tools is both directories and search engines that search for Web pages in specialized areas.
a. Metasearchers
b. Specialized search tools
c. Health related search tools
d. The invisible web
Answer: B
Rationale:
Specialized Search Tools – are both directories and search engines that search for Web pages in specialized areas. Can
be used for specialized searches like books, journals, images, etc.

2. Provides a place for an exchange of ideas. Used by health-oriented Websites to allow people to interact with others, facing the
same situation.
a. Forums
b. Intranets
c. Extranets
d. Direct care
Answer: A
Rationale:
Forums – provides a place for an exchange of ideas. Used by health-oriented Websites to allow people to interact with
others, facing the same situation. One benefit of it is that the discussions are threaded, allowing participants to read through the
development of a topic in a linear manner.

3. Accessed using a web browser but are available only to users within a specific organization.
a. Forums
b. Intranets
c. Extranets
d. Direct care
Answer: B
Rationale:
a. Intranets – accessed using a web browser but are available only to users within a specific organization. Anyone in an
organization who has struggled either to find the latest version of a procedure or to see that all who need updated information
have it in their possession can appreciate an intranet.

4. An extension of an intranet with added security features.

a. Forums
b. Intranets
c. Extranets
d. Direct care
Answer: C
Rationale:
Extranets – an extension of an intranet with added security features. It provides accessibility to the intranet to a specific
group of outsiders. An extranet can be used by healthcare providers to access patient care information from outside of the
institution.

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 Nursing Informatics – Lecture & Laboratory
Module #7 Student Activity Sheet

Name: Armee Gay C. Neri

Class number:
Section:C9 Schedule:
Date: 01/28/23

5. Which of the following is not a part of a search engine?

a. Software c. Spider
b. Hardware d. Indexer
Answer: B
Rationale:
Search Engines – have 3 parts: a spider (crawler), an indexer and software that allow a user to search the index.

6. A text box in a web browser displaying the address of the web page that is currently being viewed
a. Address bar
b. Search box
c. Site map
d. Domain
Answer: A
Rationale:
Address box - Definition of: address bar. The field in a Web browser that is used to locate a website. After typing the URL into
the address bar and pressing Enter, the home page of the site is retrieved.

7. The introductory page of a website, typically serving as a table of contents for the site
a. Home page
b. Browser
c. Search engine
d. Page box
Answer: A
Rationale:
Home page - A homepage is a web page that serves as the starting point of a website. It is the default web page that loads
when you visit a web address that only contains a domain name. Examples include index.html, index.htm, index.shtml, index. php,
default.html, and home.html

8. An information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling
the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
a. Internet
b. World wide web
c. Website
d. Home page
Answer: B
Rationale:
World Wide Web - is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource
Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

9. These are search engines that, instead of sending a spider to the Web at large, search indexes of many search tools and compile
the results into one display, often eliminating duplicates.
a. Metaparadigm
b. Multitasking
c. Metasearcher
d. Surfing
Answer: C

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 Nursing Informatics – Lecture & Laboratory
Module #7 Student Activity Sheet

Name: Armee Gay C. Neri

Class number:
Section:C9 Schedule:
Date: 01/28/23

Rationale:
Metasearchers – are search engines that, instead of sending a spider to the Web at large, search indexes of many search
tools and compile the results into one display, often eliminating duplicates.

10. What do you call when others respond derogatorily with other positions on the disputed posts?
a. World wide web
b. Storage wars
c. Flame war
d. Warcraft
Answer: C
Rationale:
When others respond derogatorily with other positions on the disputed posts. Rereading all messages before sending and
trying to imagine how they will look to others who do not share the same view or background goes a long way toward preventing flame
wars.

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