Which statement by the nurse indicates an understanding of the definition of nursing informat-ics?
a. "Nursing informatics is a specialty area of hospital nursing in which management of patient care is done via computers.".
b. "Nursing informatics is the specialty prac-tice of nursing integrating nursing science with computer science and information science.".
c. "Nursing informatics includes the input and retrieval of a patient's complete med-ical history via electronic data.".
d. "Nursing informatics is an area of com-puter system design and analysis to pro-vide and retrieve patient health data dur-ing the period of hospitalization.".
B
The ANA has defined informatics as "a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.".
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