Defining and integrating informatics competencies into a hospital nursing department

CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 167-173

  Schleyer, Ruth H ^a   Burch, Colleen K ^b   Schoessler, Mary T ^b  

^a Providence Health and Services   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Informatics in practice; Information literacy skills; Nursing informatics competencies; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NURSING INFORMATICS; NURSING STAFF; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STANDARD;

NURSING INFORMATICS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 79954710587     PISSN: 15382931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCN.0b013e3181f9db36     Document Type: Article

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