Nurses need to know how to operate a computer, compare data across time, and look for patterns in client responses to treatments. These are examples of:
a. JCAHO standards.
b. Information systems.
c. Informatics competencies.
d. Requirements for nursing licensure.
C
The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project identified informatics competency as a necessary component of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for quality patient care. Nurses are anticipated to be able to use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making. Nurses must utilize hospital database management, decision support, and expert system programs to access information and analyze data from dis-parate sources for use in planning for patient care processes and systems.
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