Information and communications technology is essential to nursing practice to:
a. support development and disseminate newknowledge
b. support and empower an individual's decisionmaking and healthcare choices.
c. a and b.
d. none of the above.
c
While information and communications technology is
essential to nursing practice to support development and dis
seminate new knowledge, it can also support and empower an
individual's decision making and healthcare choices.
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