The reverse is not true. They do not learn nursing theory in order to do health care computing. At the same time we are reaching the point where nurses can not provide for safe care without understanding basic health care computing concepts. Because health care computing is tied to a rapidly changing technology some version of this problem will always be true. Pharmacology has presented some of the same problems for nursing.
All nurses require a basic knowledge of pharmacology.
What an individual nurse needs to know varies widely and constantly changes. In major medical centres where patients with multiple problems are on numerous drugs busy nurses will tell you that they can no longer remember every detail they need to know to safely administer those drugs. It is at this point that safe patient care requires the development of information systems to manage this information overload. But the development of these information systems requires the involvement of the same bedside nurses. The emphasis here must be on creating opportunities for learning.