Nurse managers, as administrators within their hospital or health facility, need the knowledge and skills to use databases and information systems for the collection and interpretation of statistical data on patient care, including length of stay, staff rosters, patient acuity/dependency, budgets, and resource ordering [11]. Information competency is essential for managers, and it will become more important in the future as more sophisticated clinical information techniques are developed.
In the present study, we found that education level had a significant impact on informatics competencies. One possible reason for this relationship is that those with higher education levels have learned information retrieval and evidence-based nursing systematically. For example, the preparation of a master’s thesis requires proficiency in technological skills, including keyboarding, word processing, multimedia presentations, online literature searches, e-mail correspondence, and use of the Internet, which cover many of the informatics skill items in this study.