Decision trees-a CMI tool in nursing education

Better health care for all and an overall health care restructuring are two of the most important processes that, in addition to many existing assignments, expose many new tasks and responsibilities for nursing personnel. Each of these responsibilities entails information as input and also generates information as the output, and in the near future it is to be expected that most of the information processing, including data gathering, decision-making support, data mining and information generation will be performed by computers. To cope with this new situation, nurses have to be armed with the proper knowledge, and thereafter the proper education will play a very important role. In this manner, we started an EU project called NICE (Nursing Informatics and Computer-aided Education), one of the main objectives of which is to develop new computer-managed instructional (CMI) tools for nursing.