Nurses' Informatics Competency Assessment of Health Information System Usage: A Cross-sectional Survey.

ABSTRACT: Nurses' informatics competencies are nurses' professional requirements to guarantee the quality of patient care and affect nurses' use of health information systems. The purpose of this survey was to describe nurses' perceptions of their informatics competencies regarding health information system usage. A previously tested web-based questionnaire with multiple-choice questions was sent to nurses whose e-mail address was available through three Finnish Nursing Associations (N = 58 276). A total of 3610 nurses working in Finland responded. Both descriptive and explanatory statistics were used to analyze the data. The three dependent variables "nursing documentation," "digital environment," and "ethics and data protection" were formulated from the data. Nurses' overall informatics competency

SUBMITTER: Kinnunen UM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662616 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature