Nursing informatics education for advanced nursing practice.
This paper describes how nursing informatics content will be integrated into the education of Advanced Nursing Practitioners at Masters level. Changes in health care, especially the need to deliver evidence based nursing care and the growing amount of health data, information and knowledge, require well educated Advanced Nurse Practitioners to lead the nursing profession. The nursing informatics content for this level of nursing education is described and compared with national and international curriculum guidelines, including Nightingale work.
Goossen
W T
WT
Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden, School of Nursing, The Netherlands.
Kroesen
J
J
Niehuis
M
M
D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*