COVID-19 reveals the urgent need to strengthen nursing informatics competencies: a view from Peru.
Inform Health Soc Care
; 46(3): 229-233, 2021 Sep 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1320282
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic requires an urgent action to transform health-care delivery and to promote research and capacity-building nursing programs. Specifically, many countries at the global level have described nursing informatics as an essential competence for nurse professionals. In Peru, nursing personnel represents the largest health workforce group and nursing informatics is still emerging, but the field appear to hold much promise. In this sense, the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MoH) defined in 2020 the core nursing competences, which included a technology and innovation domain. The competence established to apply scientifically based technology and innovation to improve the processes or health service resources. The minimum competencies established by the MoH were as follows to carry out innovations in processes or resources in their different professional performance areas, to creatively adapt technology in different areas of professional performance, to make rational and ethical use of health technologies with focus on new developments that will be evaluated and applied critically, and to manage information and communication technologies, and health information systems, with emphasis on telehealth (i.e. telemedicine, telecare management, tele-education, and tele-training). Besides the nursing competences defined by the MoH is a good starting point, this special contribution discusses the urgent need to strengthen nursing informatics competencies in Peru.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Professional Competence
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Nursing Informatics
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Evidence-Based Nursing
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Peru
Language:
English
Journal:
Inform Health Soc Care
Journal subject:
Medical Informatics
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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