WEEK 2 - DISCUSSION 1

Week 2 - Nursing Informatics Competencies - Discussion 1



Nursing informatics (NI) is specially integrated to computer science, nursing science and information science to manage data, information, wisdom and knowledge in nursing practice. It supports nurses, patients and consumers in decision making roles. According to Zytkowski, (2003), management and processing information related with health is considered more important in care of ill patient. As a house supervisor at my local hospital, nursing informatics developed my expertise in administrative system, information system of project management, data mining and data management for patient care. Using computer and managing ...