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ings, actions, and outcomes; this is data and information forever lost unless ex-
tracted for research purposes.
As the evidence to support nursing practice continues to be uncovered by re-
searchers and integrated into healthcare delivery, attention must be given to the
tools that afford ready and easy access to same. It could be suggested that as
knowledge workers, nurses are also, albeit unwittingly, informaticians to a large
extent. With the advent of clinical information systems (CIS), specifically elec-
tronic documentation and clinical decision support (CDS) applications, every
nurse has the capacity ...