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This chapter provides examples of digital capability preparation for nurses across Europe, Australia and New Zealand through the inclusion of informatics in the nursing curriculum. Nurses have a unique role in health care, they are the health profession most in contact with the patient and as such collect, store and use patient data as a core function of their role. In the twenty-first century it is impossible to work without technology and thus nursing informatics is not a ‘speciality’, but rather a feature of being a health professional in the modern age, however it must be recognized that there is a difference between being digitally capable and being credible in terms of informatics. The three exemplars in this chapter provide responses to the challenges posed through acknowledging the differences between digital capability and informatics credibility.
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Cummings, E., Bichel-Findlay, J., Procter, P., Hübner, U., Honey, M., Day, K. (2020). Nursing Informatics Education: A Global Perspective. In: Berner, E.S. (eds) Informatics Education in Healthcare. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53813-2_12
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