Yang Li, Cui Dan, Zhu Xuemei, Zhao Qiuli, Xiao Ningning, Shen Xiaoying
School of Nursing, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, 246 Xuefu Road, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150086, China.
Department of Emergency, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150086, China.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2014 Mar 23;2014:391714. doi: 10.1155/2014/391714. eCollection 2014.
Nurse managers are in an excellent position for providing leadership and support within the institutions they serve and are often responsible for accessing information that is vital to the improvement of health facility processes and patients' outcomes. Therefore, competency in informatics is essential. The purposes of this study are to examine current informatics competency levels of nurse managers and to identify the variables that influence these competencies.
A questionnaire designed to assess demographic information and nursing informatics competency was completed by 68 nurse managers. Multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to analyze the factors influencing informatics competency.
Descriptive analysis of the data revealed that informatics competency of these nurse managers was in the moderate range (77.65 ± 8.14). Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that level of education, nursing administration experience, and informatics education/training were significant factors affecting competency levels.
The factors identified in this study can serve as a reference for nurse managers who were wishing to improve their informatics competency, hospital administrators seeking to provide appropriate training, and nursing educators who were making decisions about nursing informatics curricula. These findings suggest that efforts to enhance the informatics competency of nurse managers have marked potential benefits.
护士长在其服务的机构中处于提供领导和支持的绝佳位置，并且常常负责获取对于改善医疗机构流程和患者结局至关重要的信息。因此，信息学能力至关重要。本研究的目的是检查护士长当前的信息学能力水平，并确定影响这些能力的变量。
68名护士长完成了一份旨在评估人口统计学信息和护理信息学能力的问卷。进行多元线性回归分析以分析影响信息学能力的因素。
数据的描述性分析显示，这些护士长的信息学能力处于中等水平（77.65±8.14）。多元线性回归分析表明，教育水平、护理管理经验和信息学教育/培训是影响能力水平的重要因素。
本研究中确定的因素可为希望提高其信息学能力的护士长、寻求提供适当培训的医院管理人员以及在护理信息学课程方面做出决策的护理教育工作者提供参考。这些发现表明，提高护士长信息学能力的努力具有显著的潜在益处。
