Prescription for nursing informatics in pre-registration nurse education.

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Nurses need to be able to use information and communications technology not only to support their own practice, but also to help their patients make best use of it. This article argues that nurses are not currently adequately prepared to work with information and technology through their pre-registration education. Reflecting the lack of nursing informatics expertise, it is recommended that all pre-registration nursing programmes should have access to a nursing informatics specialist. A prescription to meet the informatics needs of the newly qualified nurse is proposed. This places the areas that need to be included in pre-registration education into broad groups that both articulate the competencies that nurses need to develop, and indicate why they are needed, rather than providing context-free checklists of skills. This is presented as a binary scatter chart with two axes, skill to knowledge and technology to information.

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Author/s: Bond, Carol S (CS); Procter, Paula M (PM);

Affiliation: School of Health and Social Care Bournemouth University Bournemouth House Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 3LH, UK. cbond(-atsign-)bournemouth.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Health informatics journal (Health Informatics J), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Mar; vol 15 (issue 1) : pp 55-64

Dates: Created 2009/02/16; Completed 2009/06/23;

PMID: 19218312, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 6/23/2009, IMS Date: 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00)

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