1. Nursing bioinformatics
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2. What is healthcare informatics?
Computer science: development, configuration, architecture of computer hardware and software.
Healthcare science: body of knowledge on which healthcare profession bases their practice. The sciences of anatomy, physiology and knowledge specific to each profession.

3. Information science: also includes information technology which involves the process of sending and receiving information.
Cognitive science: the process of human thinking, understanding and remembering.

4. Why is it important?
Nurses need to develop competencies in informatics.
Informatics enables nurses to use information and communications technologies in the:
collection of data,
use of information
generation of knowledge to support nursing practice
Technology
Nursing

5. Why is it important?
Therefore, NI competencies need to include both knowledge and skills required:
to use information and communication technologies to enter, retrieve and manipulate data.

6. to interpret and organize data into information to affect nursing practice.
to combine information to contribute to knowledge development in nursing.

8. Using information Evidence-based practice leads to:
Determining standards and guidelines
Guide for decision-making process
Determines best practice
Nursing informatics can enable dissemination of new knowledge.
Practitioners update themselves of new developments through journals, conferences, continuing education sessions.
The information is varied and copious.
There is a need to find the relevant evidence in a timely way.

9. Literature databases
Provide access to relevant literature and are an important research source.
Usually cover a specific list of periodicals or other publications that give the database defined boundaries.
Usually specific to one field such as healthcare, social sciences, education.
The database may be limited to research articles or may include newspaper clippings, magazine articles.

10. A database provides a controlled, specific and systematic way of finding relevant information on a specific topic.
Each entry in a database usually contains an article citation, subject heading and a text summary known as the abstract.
It may include the name of the author(s) and the full text of the article.

11. Obstacles to using information
There is a need to further emphasize on the importance of evidence-based practice.
There is a need for convenient access to literature resources.
Education to use technology to access and retrieve information relevant to clinical practice.
There is a need to instill a information-seeking modeling behavior.

12. Thank you