Question

INFORMATICS

Write six-eight sentences addressing one of the informatics terms below. The statements must be meaningful and include the concepts of nursing informatics

Terms:

Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Knowledge Workers

Decision Making

Informatics Competencies

Workflow

Technology

Hardware

Software

Electronic Standards

System Architecture

Internet

Database

Answer 1

Informatics competencies

Nursing informatics competencies can be defined as adequate knowledge, skill and abilities to perform specific informatics tasks.

Informatics competencies include 3 features:

1. Basic computer skills

2. Informatics knowledge

3. Informatics skills

Informatics competencies of health care professionals within the five domains are:

nursing management

IT management in nursing

Quality management

Inter professional coordination of care and

Cinical nursing

Informatics skills were categorized as :

Management, system requirements and selection, design and development, fiscal management, implementation, analysis and evaluation, and system maintenance.

A delphi approach was used for obtaining consensus on the competencies.