Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition
Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies
2022 Productivity Press: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003281009
Chapter 1
Authors: Brenda Kulhanek, Patricia Sengstack
This chapter describes the present state of informatics education both nationally and abroad. Health information technology is used to support and deliver healthcare in almost all areas within the United States. Competency is the successful and consistent integration of knowledge, skills, ability, personal values, attitudes, critical thinking and clinical decision-making in a real-world setting. Over the past three decades, multiple nursing informatics competency models have been developed, each using a different lens to identify informatics competencies for different nursing roles. There have been some attempts to provide pre-formatted curricula for nursing informatics education. The Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing has developed a nursing informatics teaching toolkit that can be used in any pre-licensure nursing program throughout Canada. South America and the Caribbean nations face similar challenges to enhance nursing practice by incorporating informatics curricula in nursing school. Brazil has created a national curriculum for undergraduate nurses that include informatics as a requirement.