Relation between Nursing Informatics Competency and Nurses’ Attitude toward Evidence-Based Practice among Qualified Nurses at Mansoura Oncology Center

Elsayed, Wessam Ahmed

doi:10.15520/ijnd.2017.vol7.iss6.229.26-33

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“…Contrary to our findings, other studies indicated that nurses' IT competency was within the range of no-low level of competency [26,43,44]. Some other studies reported the nurses' IT competency at the expert and proficient levels [11,45,46]. Probably the high level of IT competency in these participants is existence of a nursing informatics' course in their curriculum and difference in their educational degree.…”

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“…In line with these developments, nurses must embrace innovation and use their abilities and knowledge to change and develop their old ways of thinking [10]. They are also required to actively participate in designing and deploying IT in health care [9,11,12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ajayi in Nigeria reported that majority of nurses did not have sufficient computer knowledge [19]. In Egypt, Elsayed et al showed a positive relationship between IT competency score and attitude toward evidence-based practice [11]. Researchers of several studies indicated that nurses obtained much of their information needed for clinical decisionmaking in evidence-based practice from printed and human sources.…”

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Improving the information technology competency of nurses in critical care units: an interventional study

Jouparinejad¹,

Foroughameri²,

Khajouei³

et al. 2019

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Introduction To convert nurses of the critical care units into active users of evidence-based practices, their IT competency should be improved by appropriate planning. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a training program on nurses' IT competency in critical care units.Methods In this interventional study, 60 nurses working in critical care units of hospitals were randomly assigned into the control and intervention groups. The three-day workshop on IT skills training was conducted for the intervention group. Data were collected using demographic questionnaire and Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Tool (NICAT) before and one month after the intervention.Results In the pretest stage, both groups were at the competent level with regard to the competency level and no significant difference was observed between them in the pretest. However, in the posttest, the IT competency of the intervention group significantly increased compared to the control group. This showed that the intervention group was at the proficient level.Conclusions Education enhanced the nurses' IT competency in critical care units. So, in order to provide nurses with the latest scientific information and to promote high quality evidence-based practices, related educational programs should be added to continuous educational programs for all clinical nurses.

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Improving the information technology competency of nurses in critical care units: an interventional study

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Foroughameri²,

Khajouei³

et al. 2019

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“…However, other studies indicated that nurses' NI competency was low [14,38,39]. Some other studies reported the nurses' NI competency at the expert and pro cient levels [2,40,41].…”

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“…HIT plays an important role in nursing practice, and nurses have participated in the conception, design and implementation of HIT. Following the development of information technology initiatives in nursing, the nursing informatics (NI) discipline has been emerged due to the expansion of the knowledge required in this eld [2]. NI is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice [3,4].…”

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Improving the informatics competency of critical care nurses: results of an interventional study in the southeast of Iran

Jouparinejad

Foroughameri

Khajouei

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BackgroundNursing informatics (NI) along with growth and development of health information technology (HIT) is becoming a fundamental part of all domains of nursing practice especially in critical care settings. Nurses are expected to equip with NI competency for providing patient-centered evidence-based care. Therefore, it is important and necessary to improve nurses’ NI competency through educational programs for effective using of HIT. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a training program on NI competency of critical care nurses.MethodsThis interventional study was conducted in 2019. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 60 nurses working in critical care units of three hospitals affiliated with a large University of Medical Sciences in the southeast of Iran. These nurses were assigned randomly and equally to the control and intervention groups. NI competency was trained to the intervention group in a three-day workshop. Data were collected using demographic questionnaire and the adapted Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Tool (NICAT) before and one month after the intervention. Rahman in the US (2015) developed and validated the original NICAT to assess self-reported NI competency of nurses with 30 items and three dimensions (Computer literacy, Informatics literacy Information management skills). The NICAT is scored on a five-point Likert scale and the overall score ranges from 30 to150. Two medical informatics specialists and eight nursing faculty members approved the validity of the adapted version of NICAT and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha (95%). Results: All 60 participants completed the educational program and returned the completed questionnaire. Majority of participants in the intervention and control groups were female (83.30%), married nurses (70.90%, 73.30%) aged 30-40 years (51.6%, 35.5%). In the pretest stage, both intervention and control groups were competent in terms of the NI competency and its dimensions, and no significant difference was observed between them (p=0.65). However, in the posttest, the NI competency and its dimensions in the intervention group significantly increased with a large effect size compared with the control group (p = 0.001). This difference showed that the intervention group was proficient in the posttest stage. The highest mean difference in the intervention group was associated with the informatics literacy dimension and the lowest mean difference was associated with the informatics management skills dimension.Conclusions: The improved scores of NI competency and its dimensions after using the training program implied the effectiveness of this method in enhancing the NI competency of nurses working in the critical care units. The application of the training program in diverse domains of nursing practice shows its high efficiency. The project is fundamental for improving nurses’ NI competency through continuous educational programs in Iran, other cultures and contexts.

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A survey of nurse informatics competencies of professional nurses in clinical practice public hospitals in South Africa

le Roux,

Bimerew,

Chipps

2024

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences

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Improving the information technology competency of nurses in critical care units: an interventional study

Improving the information technology competency of nurses in critical care units: an interventional study

Improving the informatics competency of critical care nurses: results of an interventional study in the southeast of Iran

A survey of nurse informatics competencies of professional nurses in clinical practice public hospitals in South Africa

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