Nursing Informatics
Nursing Informatics
Nursing informatics (NI) is a specialized field that merges nursing science with information and analytical sciences to recognize, define, manage, and transmit data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Despite being a nursing specialty for over three decades, diverse definitions persist. Nursing informatics involves using technology and computer systems to gather, store, process, display, retrieve, and share timely data and information across healthcare facilities. It supports nursing service administration, patient care delivery, research application, and educational utilization. The broad acceptance of this approach could stem from the realization that information management, encompassing data, information, and knowledge.
- Concepts and Tools of Nursing Informatics
- Functional Areas
- Ethics in Nursing Informatics
- The Future of Nursing Informatics processing, is intrinsic to nursing practice, whether or not technology is involved.