Nursing Informatics Theories
Nursing Informatics Theories
Nursing Informatics Theories
Nursing informatics is an established and growing area of specialization in nursing. All nurses
employ information technologies in their place.
Informatics nurses are key persons in the design, development, Implementation, and evaluation,
of these technologies and in the development of the specialty’s body of knowledge.
Healthcare informatics may defined as the integration of healthcare sciences, computer science,
information science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of health information.
Nursing Informatics
Nursing informatics is the use of information technologies in relation to any nursing functions and
actions of nurses(Hannah, 1985).
Nursing informatics is a combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science
designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge
to support the practice the nursing and the delivery of nursing care(Graves and Corcoran, 1989).
Nursing Informatics
The ANA (1994) defined nursing informatics as the specialty that integrates nursing science,
computer science, and information science in identifying, collecting, processing, and managing data
and information to support nursing practice, administration, education, research, and the expansion
of nursing knowledge.
Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information, and knowledge to support
patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings.
Information Systems
1. Decision support system for patient care
2. Patient data profiling
3. Knowledge discovery and management