Nursing Informatics Education in the South: a Brazilian Experience

Summary

Introduction: Teaching and learning are critical factors to our survival, design our future and the way we live and determine the quality of our lives.

Methods: This article summarizes aspects of nursing informatics education in the South, more specifically focusing in some of the undergraduate and graduate nursing informatics programs in Brazil. Considering the Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics by IMIA, the content provides an overview of the disciplines and share experience in the implementation of a certificate program in health informatics.

Results and Conclusions: Since the initial activities in nursing informatics in Brazil, nurses have faced many challenges. Nursing informatics is not completely integrated into the nursing curriculum and the nursing informatics competencies are not established at national level.

Keywords

Nursing - informatics - information - communication - education - technology

 

• References

• 1 Recommendation of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on education in health and medical informatics. Methods Inf Med 2000; 39: 267-77.
• 2 Mantas J, Ammenwerth E, Demiris G, Hasman A, Haux R, Hersh W, Hovenga E, Lun KC, Marin H, Martin-Sanchez F, Wright G. Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics. Methods Inf Med 2010; 49: 1-16 doi 10.3414/ME51119.
• 3 Marin HF, Rodrigues RJ, Delaney C, Nielsen GH, Yan J. Building Standard-Based Nursing Information systems. PAHO. WHO; 2001: 27-45.
• 4 Sasso GT, Silveira DT, Peres HHC, Marin HF. The Americas: Case Study 14H: Brazil. In: Weaver CA, Delaney CW, Weber P, Carr R. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century. 2nd edition. HIMSS. In press. 2010
• 5 Marin HF, Massad E, Marques EP, Ohno-Machado L. International Training in Health Informatics: a Brazilian experience. In: MEDINFO’2004. 2004. San Francisco: MEDINFO’2004; 2004: 898-902.
• 6 Marin HF, Massad E, Marques EP, Azevedo R, Ohno-Machado L. Health informatics education in Brazil. In: 19th International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics. 2005. Genebra: Abstract, 2005. 116: 1126-31.
• 7 Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa. RNP. Available at: htttp://www.rnp.br/index.php Accessed February 12, 2010.
• 8 Rede Universitária de Telemedicina e Telesaúde. RUTE. Available at: http://rute.mp.br Accessed February 12, 2010.
• 9 INFOTELEN. Brazil’s Nursing and Telenursing Network. Available at: http://www.infotelen.ning.com Accessed June, 2009.
• 10 Marin HF, Marques EP. Nursing Informatics: learning from the past to build a new future. Rev Bras. Enferm 2005; 58 (02) 143-6.
• 11 IMIA-NI Strategic Plan – Towards IMIA-NI 2015. Ratified August. 2007 http://fayre.org/imiani/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=16&Itemid=30.
• 12 Marin HF, Silveira DT, Dal Sasso GT, Perez HHC. Nursing Informatics in Brazil: evolution, current aspects and tendencies. In: Ball M, Douglas JV, Newbold SK. editors. Nursing Informatics: where caring and technology meet. 4. Ed.. New York: Springer; In Press 2010