A REVIEW ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND THE NECESSITY OF NURSING INFORMATICS SPECIALTY

All nursing aspects have been affected by information technology development. In nursing work areas, the key components are which they use in their practice environment. According to the technology's role in education, research, management and practice in nursing, it seems necessary to lead to policies which facilitate technology effective usage in health care organizations. So nursing journals & databases for related literatures have been searched for available investigations in this filed. This article intends to find effective elements leading to above subject by emphasizing on the importance of nursing informatics education as a specialty. Initially nursing informatics & knowledge management in the medical field will be reviewed. Then, interaction of nurse and technology in practice, management, education and research fields will be mentioned. Finally according to the available potential for nursing informatics, it presents discussion and results.