COURSE:
NR512: Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Directions
Understanding one’s own competencies in nursing informatics enables the planning of strategies to enhance knowledge and skills. A graded self-evaluation of your informatics competencies is required. The grade, however, is only for completing the tool. No grade is assessed for any individual responses or any summation regarding your level of competence in any area of the tool.
The self-evaluation is completed using the TANIC© tool. The acronym stands for TIGER-based -Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies©. TIGER refers to the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform Initiative which identified a list of the minimum informatics competencies for all nurses and students graduating from pre- and post-licensure programs. The TANIC© tool was developed by researchers who started with the TIGER list then worked to create a tool that could be used to self-assess competencies. The tool has been used nationally and internationally to assess nursing informatics competencies in a variety of nursing settings. There are no incorrect answers.
The TANIC© tool addresses three areas, listed below.
- Basic Computer Competencies
- Information Literacy
- Information Management (including use of an electronic health record)…………………………….$10