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Nursing informatics education in the South: a Brazilian experience
1Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Chair of IMIA NI SIG, Rua Dep. Bady Bassit 440, 05517-050 São Paulo - SP - Brazil. hfmarin@unifesp.br; heimarfm@gmail.com
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.
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