DETERMINING WHO NURSES' LEVEL OF COMPUTER USE IN HEALTH CARE AND EVALUATION NURSES' THOUGHTS ABOUT NURSING INFORMATICS

Abstract

Nurses are one of the main components of manpower of health training. Nurses can perform an individualized care with an education and counseling of healthy people or patients by using computers. Nursing informatics, come out as a result of using information technology in specific nursing knowledge and nursing practice. It is important to use information sciences for the development of knowledge in nursing applications.The universe of research covers all of nurses at Edremit State Hospital and Burhaniye Hospital in Balikesir province. The number of the total sample is 150 nurses, 13 of them are backup. Accordingly total of 146 nurses responsed to the survey and data analysis was made of the resulting data. Participants' daily time of computer use determined as less than 1 hour %10.6, 1-3 hours %43.4, 3-5 hours %23.7. Participants' agreements on statements about nursing informatics were found to be varying between 1.66-4.16 points in 1-5 point range.