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The Role of EBM and Nursing Informatics in Rural Australia

The Role of EBM and Nursing Informatics in Rural Australia

Daniel Carbone
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 9
ISBN13: 9781605662343|ISBN10: 1605662348|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925291|EISBN13: 9781605662350
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch015
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Carbone, Daniel. "The Role of EBM and Nursing Informatics in Rural Australia." Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches, edited by Bettina Staudinger, et al., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 230-238. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch015

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Carbone, D. (2009). The Role of EBM and Nursing Informatics in Rural Australia. In B. Staudinger, V. Höß, & H. Ostermann (Eds.), Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches (pp. 230-238). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch015

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Carbone, Daniel. "The Role of EBM and Nursing Informatics in Rural Australia." In Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches, edited by Bettina Staudinger, Victoria Höß, and Herwig Ostermann, 230-238. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch015

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to broadly discuss the need for enhanced evidence-based medicine (EBM) by nurses in the context of rural Australia and the role that nursing informatics and an informed strategy could facilitate in making such need a feasible reality. First, the introduction highlights current time gaps between health discoveries and eventual practice and the potential for information technology to positively affect this gap. Then, the need for nurses to take an active role in evidence-based medicine in rural settings is argued. The link between information literacy and evidence-based medicine is consequently presented and gaps in knowledge regarding nursing informatics training are highlighted. Concluding with the argument that to achieve evidence-based research and eventual use, there needs to be a purposeful health informatics learning strategy that recognises the role of computer and information literacy.

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