Knowledge, attitude, and performance in nursing informatics among student nurses in a private university in Iloilo City

Abstract

In today's rapidly changing healthcare environment, nurses must integrate evidence- based nursing informatics in order to effectively manage both long-term and immediate medical conditions. The field of nursing informatics, an intersection of nursing science, computer science, and information science, facilitates data handling and exchange in nursing practice. Despite global acknowledgment, there is a lack of local research on nursing informatics, particularly in the Philippines. This study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude, and performance in nursing informatics among student nurses in a private university in Iloilo City. The researchers employed a stratified random sampling technique to identify respondents and made a physical questionnaire to perform the study. Part 1 of the questionnaire contained the personal data, Part 2 were the grades of the respondents, Part 3 had 10-item questions using a four-point likert scale, and Part 4 included 15-item questions made by a lecturer in nursing informatics. Content validity was used to know if the questionnaire was fully representative of what it aimed to measure. Cronbach's alpha of 70% or higher was used to assess the reliability. Moreover, the gathered data were organized, tabulated, and encoded for computer processing. The data was processed and analyzed using a statistical package for social sciences. Tools for both descriptive and inferential statistics were conducted using the appropriate tools. According to the study’s findings, the majority of the respondents were 21 years old (69.4%), followed by 22 years old (19.7%), and 20 years old (10.9%). The majority of the respondents were female (74.8 %) and less than one fourth of them were males (25.2%). Majority of the respondents (81.0%) have a high level grade point average (1-1.5) in their nursing informatics class, followed by the average level (17.7%) (1.75-2.25) and low level (0.7 %) (2.5-3). Majority of the respondents (81.6%) were highly competent in terms of their performance in applying their knowledge in nursing informatics, followed by fairly competent (17.7%), and poorly competent (0.7%). Majority of the student nurses (99.3%) were highly attentive and the remaining were fairly attentive (0.7%) in the area of nursing informatics. There was no significant relationship between the profile of the respondents in terms of Age and Sex and knowledge, attitude, and performance in nursing informatics. On the other hand, there was a significant relationship between the knowledge and performance in nursing informatics of the respondents; but there was no significant relationship between the attitude and performance in nursing informatics of the respondents.