The Professor’s Perspective: What’s all this buzz about informatics?

Have you heard the new nursing buzzword?  It’s informatics. Just what in the world does that mean? And to be entirely practical, why do we care? Here’s a rough practical definition of informatics from a nursing viewpoint that seems to be commonly shared. Let’s agree that this word describes that phenomenon in which nurses use things like computer technology and communication to assist in nursing practice. Remember those dark pre-world-wide-Web...  Read More »