[Informatics in nursing practice: a new challenge for the nurse].
The study does a critical analysis about the nurse's insertion and role in the informatic applied to health. It brings up the importance of nurse's envolvement in the implantation projects of the automatized systems information, the necessity of acquiriment knowledge and control about this technology so that it can be used as a useful work instrument, aiding the decision process and rationalizing the work, with the main objective to improve the nursing practice.