Traditionally, professional nurses have been central to the information handling tasks that occur in health care settings. Rather, it allows scientific investigators to identify meaningful patterns of occurrences, against which an individual patient's care can be compared.
Nursing practice is increasingly data driven.
Nursing knowledge is derived from nursing information that is derived from the discovery of relationships among nursing data. Nursing knowledge is increasing exponentially. It is stored and distributed in a wide .variety of sources, primarily electronic. An individual nurse s management of information, knowledge of electronic access, retrieval and the ability to evaluate information from a variety of resources is a critical component of competent professional nursing practice.