title: Readiness of nurse executives and leaders to advocate for health information systems supporting nursing.
abstract: Literature suggests that nurses at all levels remain unprepared to make use of full use of technologies required for current practice. Specifically, nurses lack sufficient background to engage with information systems, electronic records, and unit-level and aggregated data that could support understanding of the contributions of nursing services to care and the development of best practice guidelines. Given that nursing leadership is needed in this area, the authors conducted a review of graduate nursing curricula preparing nurses to take on leadership, management and executive roles. Findings revealed that only 12 out of 36 graduate nursing programs on the west coast of the US and Canada required any content in informatics, and five more offered elective opportunities. Implications for education and practice are discussed.
authors: University of Portland, School of Nursing, Portland, Oregon.
authors: Mary
authors: M
authors: Oakes
authors: University of Victoria, School of Nursing, British Columbia, Canada.
authors: Noreen
authors: N
authors: Frisch
authors: University of Portland, School of Nursing, Portland, Oregon.
authors: Pamela
authors: P
authors: Potter
authors: University of Victoria, School of Health Information Science, British Columbia, Canada.
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Borycki
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education*; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000193:education*; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D014481:United States