Nursing Informatics Flashcards
(38 cards)
The input device displays the result of the processing of raw data that is entered in the computer through an output device.
False- Output device
It was the first electronic computer introduced in the United States in 1930.
Differential Analyzer
The following statements are true about Nursing and the Computer, EXCEPT:
The following statements are true about Nursing and the Computer, EXCEPT:
Nursing does not require computer aid for better care and treatment of the patient.
This device used 9 different ivory strips or bones marked with numbers to multiply and divide.
Napiers Bones
It was a digital MECHANICAL CALCULATOR which was called the stepped reckoner as instead of gears it was made of fluted drums.
Leibnitz wheel
This is also known as Arithmetic Machine or Adding Machine.
Pascaline
In 1944, this computer was built as a partnership between IBM and Harvard. It was the first programmable digital computer.
Mark 1
Motherboard is a computer hardware
True
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
-There are six generations of computers.
- 5 generations
Who invented the manually-operated calculating device used for multiplication and division and the first to use the decimal point.
John Napier
It was a mechanical computer which could perform simple calculations. It was a steam driven calculating machine designed to solve tables of numbers like logarithm tables.
Difference Engine
This machine was used in the 1890 U.S. Census.
Tabulating Machine
He is known as “Father of Modern Computer”.
Charles Babbage
It is said that ___________ invented Abacus around 4,000 years ago.
the Chinese
He planned to develop a machine that could perform calculations involving large numbers in 1937.
Howard Aiken
Give 3 main computer componnts except Primary and Secondary Memory. In any order
- Input Devices
- Output Devices
- CPU- Central Processing Unit.
The first counting device was used by the primitive people. They used ___________ as counting tools.
sticks, stones, bones
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
Differential Analyzer was the first electronic computer introduced in the United States in 2010
- in 1930
Abacus is still used in some countries like China, ________ and Japan.
Russia
The history of computer begins with the birth of ____________ which is believed to be the first computer.
abacus
The operations of computer components. In order: (Wrong spelling is considerd incorrect)
Inputting
Storing
Processing
Outputting
Controlling
The following statements are true, EXCEPT:
The Analytical engine was also developed by Charles Babbage in 1995.
He was a German mathematician-philosopher who improved Pascal’s invention in 1673,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
He was an American statistician who invented the Tabulating Machine in 1890.
Herman Hollerith
