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In India nursing educational institutions run under the umbrella of Indian Nursing council, which prescribes the curriculum and other norms for nursing education and nursing care services in health care sector. Indian nursing council has prescribed Introduction of computers in first year of B.Sc. nursing course and in second year, B.Sc. nursing course Communication and Education Technology. Objectives: The present study aims at knowing the nursing graduate student’s knowledge about health informatics and EMR and their opinion about these courses to be included in nursing curriculum. Methodology: An incidental study is conducted on final year B.Sc. nursing students. Analysis and Results: Eighty percent of the male students are in favor of EMR system and seventy percent of the female students are in favor of it. Seventy eight percent of the both male and female students want to upgrade the nursing curriculum by including EMR and Health Informatics in the syllabus. Overall seventy four percent of the students are of the opinion that nursing curriculum need to be updated giving scope for technology based elective subjects like Electronic Medical Records and Health Informatics.
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GangaBhavani, B. (2020). A Study on Opinion of B.Sc. Nursing Students on Health Informatics and EMR as Part of Nursing Education. In: Jyothi, S., Mamatha, D., Satapathy, S., Raju, K., Favorskaya, M. (eds) Advances in Computational and Bio-Engineering. CBE 2019. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46939-9_7
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