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Prescription for nursing informatics in pre-registration nurse education

Carol S. Bond

School of Health and Social Care Bournemouth University Bournemouth House Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 3LH, UK, cbond{at}bournemouth.ac.uk

Paula M. Procter

Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Sheffield Hallam University 51-53 Broomgrove Road Sheffield S10 2NA, UK, p.procter{at}shu.ac.uk

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.

Key Words: nurse education • nursing informatics • nurse training

Health Informatics Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, 55-64 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1460458208099868
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