Factors Associated With Nurses' Informatics Competency

摘要

With the growing interest in informatics as an infrastructure for improving the quality of care and patient safety, informatics competency has become an essential requirement for nurses to fulfill their professional roles.1-s Initially, computer-based information systems were introduced to administrative functions in healthcare organizations. The advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have led to wide applications to clinical practice, including physicians' order-entry systems and electronic medical records (EMRs). As of 2005, physician order-entry systems were present in 97.6% of specialized general hospitals and 84.2% of general hospitals in Korea, and EMRs for inpatients were implemented in 21.4% and 14.5% of these hospitals, respectively.6 In particular, nurses' informatics competency is considered a major determinant for successful clinical information systems, since nurses occupy the largest part of the healthcare workforce.