The relationship between informatics competency and clinical competency in nurses working in intensive care units: A Cross-sectional Study in Northeast

What is current knowledge?Clinical nurses should be familiar with various nursing concepts, such as informatics competency.They should also understand the role of nursing informatics and its relationship with other professional activities, such as clinical tasks, and strive to acquire the necessary competence to improve the quality of clinical care. What is new here?In this study, in addition to the weak correlation between informatics competency and clinical competence of ICU nurses, there was no statistically significant difference between them.It seems that attention to the importance of informatics competency as one of the novel dimensions of professional competencies is still in its early stages.Nurses need to possess all the components of professional competence simultaneously to help improve the quality of care.