Objectives: This study explored the current status of nursing informatics education in South Korea and developed a standardized curriculum for it.Methods: Data were collected in two stages: first, an online survey conducted from December 2020 to February 2021 among 60 nursing schools to analyze the current status of nursing informatics education; and second, a two-round Delphi survey with 15 experts from March to April 2021 to determine the mean and standard deviation of the demand for each learning objective in nursing informatics education. A standardized curriculum proposal was developed based on the results of the two-round Delphi survey.Results: Nursing informatics was most commonly taught in the fourth year (34%), with two credits. The proportion of elective major subjects was high in undergraduate and graduate programs (77.4% and 78.6%, respectively), while the proportion of nursing informatics majors was low (21.4%). The curriculum developed included topics such as nursing information system-related concepts, definitions and components of healthcare information systems, electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, mobile technology and health management, medical information standards, personal information protection and ethics, understanding of big data, use of information technology in evidence-based practice, use of information in community nursing, genome information usage, artificial intelligence clinical information systems, administrative management systems, and information technology nursing education.Conclusions: Nursing informatics professors should receive ongoing training to obtain recent medical information. Further review and modification of the nursing informatics curriculum should be performed to ensure that it remains up-to-date with recent developments.
Introduction: Infectious disease training is considered vital in health care systems to improve knowledge, skills, and work performance of infection control professionals. However, the extent to which trainees effectively transfer knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they acquire through training has received little attention. This study aimed to identify factors influencing training transfer of infection control professionals receiving infectious disease training. Methods: This cross-sectional study selected infection control professionals who completed an infectious disease training program provided by Korea Human Resources Development Institute for Health and Welfare. A self-reported questionnaire was used to collect data on sociodemographic variables, trainee characteristics, training design, work environment, and training transfer. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS (version 26.0). Results: The mean age of the 139 participants was 41.45 years, and 77% were female participants. Regression analysis indicated that the following factors significantly influenced the training transfer of infection control professionals and thereby decrease morbidity and mortality: for trainee characteristics, transfer experience (b = 0.205, P = 0.012) and motivation to learn (b = 0.196, P =0.016); for training design, learning objectives (b = 0.269, P = 0.021), goals (b = 0.356, P =0.023), and methods (b = 0.365, P = 0.020); and for the work environment, supervisor support (b = 0.275, P =0.024) and colleague support (b = 0.474, P = 0.022). Conclusion: Future training programs for improving training transfer should focus more on strategies to improve the motivation for training transfer. Trainees should be guided on (1) how to apply training knowledge in specific clinical contexts to improve their performance and (2) potential methods to get support from their supervisors and colleagues during training.
Background: Caregivers of people with dementia faces difficulties while constantly caring for their loved ones. Providing support programs should consider for promoting their experience of caregiving, quality of care, and will lead to delay institutionalization of dementia people. Implementing onsite support programs meets obstacles during the Covid-19 pandemic, internet-based interventions could be considered as a potential alternative.Methods: This is a pre-post pilot intervention study for primary family caregivers of community-dwelling people with dementia. The 8-week intervention program was delivered to the participants using ZOOM meetings software. This program consisted of 8 modules (one for each week): 1) reflecting on my caregiving journey, 2) understanding about dementia as a caregiver, 3) taking care of myself, 4) managing stress, 5) communicating with others, 6) learning how to take care of dementia people, 7) pleasant daily life, and 8) planning my caregiving journey. To assess the effects of the program, five caregiver's outcomes were measured: Positive Aspects of Caregiving, (PAC), Caregiving Self-Efficacy Scale (CgSES), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Health Risk Behaviors (HRB), and satisfaction.Results: 20 caregivers participated and 18 fully completed the pilot program. The participants have the mean age is 70.6, and 3.5 years playing the role of a family caregiver.The study findings found that the program significantly improved the PAC (P = .001), PSS (P = .027), and three sub-domains of HRB: physical health (P < .000), mental health (P = .048), and leisure activities (P = .023). Whereas, though scores of the CgSES, and three remaining sub-domains of HRB: care difficulty, building relationships, and getting help from others were better at the posttest compared with the pretest, these changes were not statistically significant. The participants scored 4.72 (maximum is 5) for their satisfaction with the program. Conclusion:This intervention program successfully improved quality of life and experience of the family caregivers related to their caregiving. Such online programs are
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