Nursing informatics competencies: assessment of undergraduate and graduate nursing students

Abstract

These results assist nurse educators in determining specific areas of informatics content that need greater focus and inclusion in the design of better nursing educational programmes. Examples of integrating competencies into existing curriculum or informatics courses are suggested.

Nursing Informatics Competencies Among Nursing Students and Their Relationship to Patient Safety Competencies

“…Finally, graduate students scored higher on their wireless device skills and clinical informatics attitude, 33 whereas the current study found that there were no significant differences between students and interns on these measures.…”

Understanding the use of standardized nursing terminology and classification systems in published research: A case study using the International Classification for Nursing Practice ®

“…Entry to practice nursing informatics competencies have been developed and integrated into undergraduate nursing curriculum in Australia and Canada (Borycki & Foster, 2014). Also, more nurses are participating in graduate programs both within and outside nursing that either focus on informatics or incorporate informatics competencies into the curriculum (Choi & De Martinis, 2013;Hunter. McGonigle & Hebda, 2013).…”

Measuring Nursing Informatics Competencies of Practicing Nurses in Korea

“…18 Nursing ICs, the competencies necessary for nursing informatics practice, can therefore be defined as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to integrate nursing science, computer, and information science to Identify, collect, process, manage, communicate, and expand data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. 29 However, across the myriad efforts, the majority of past private and public organizations concentrated on developing and evaluating ICs for entry-level undergraduate nurses [30][31][32][33][34][35] or graduate nurses' education. 13,23,28 Public organizations including the American Nurses Association, the American Medical Informatics Association, Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), the National League for Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and the Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative have put efforts to identify core ICs for nurses.…”