Nursing informatics combines computer science, information science, and nursing science into a new specialty that offers opportunities and challenges for all nurses. In the information age, nurses will need to build their knowledge and skills to famil iarize themselves with the technology, resources such as the Internet, and software for databases, spreadsheets, projects, and graphics. Nurses must be able to partici pate actively when institutions choose information systems so that nursing's inter ests will be considered. (J AM PSYCHIATR NURSES Assoc [1995]. 1, 22-29)
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