
130 | CHAPTER 8 Nursing Informatics Roles, Competencies, and Skills
For nurses to be an accepted member of the interdisciplinary knowledge team, a
major attitude change toward nursing needs to take place. In addition, nurses
must become better educated and more involved in the interdisciplinary knowl-
edge team.
THE KNOWLEDGE NEEDS AND COMPETENCIES OF NURSES
In the early days of medicine, all medical knowledge fit into a single volume.
Today, the amount of information available is vast and expanding exponentially,
which makes the healthcare industry the most knowledge-intense environment
(Snyder-Halpern, Corcoran-Perry, & Narayan, 2001). Computers, technology ...