Question

1. What is your competency level for informatics? Has this class challenged it or improved it?
2. What types of nursing informatics did you have in your pre-licensure program? Was it enough to prepare you for nursing practice?

Answer 1

Competency include practicing nurses, nurse administration, nurse researchers, education, technical, utility and relationship related skills and knowledge.

The competencies required by nurses in the workplace are catergorized in a number of ways in the literature. Although different language is used to describe these competencies, the key concepts and categories are quite similar across taxonomies. All proposed frameworks include competencies that describe. The use of information and communication technology (technical competencies),the use of automated information in a professional context (utility competencies), decision-making with respect to planning for and using both the technology and information (leadership competencies).

Technical competencies include, use word processing, demonstrate key board skills, uses of e-mails, power points etc., internet resources, data related nursing practice, uses of CD ROMS, DVD.

Utility competencies include, recognizes the relevance of nursing data for improving practice, computer applicationsr, recognizes need for continual learning in informatics skills, applications and understands the basic process of using networks for electronic communicatione, recognizes the basic components of computer systems and moUobile devices.

Leadership Competencies include uses of computerized management systems to record administrative data (billing data, quality assurance data, workload data, etc.), applications for structured data entry (classification systems, acuity level, etc.), understands client rights related to computerized information recognizes the utility of nurse involvement in the planning, design, choice and implementation of information systems in the practice environment.

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