How Do Future Nursing Educators Perceive Informatics? Advancing the Nursing Informatics Agenda through Dialogue

Dixon, Brian E.; Newlon, Christine M.

doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2009.05.001

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“…Several researchers have articulated a need for defining core nursing informatics competencies for nurse educators (Booth, 2006;Kinnunenm et al, 2017), and for more clarity over the definition and core content of informatics to be taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels (Dixon & Newlon, 2010). Researchers have also recommended increasing educators' motivation and ability to meaningfully integrate informatics content into curricula and teaching practices in order to prepare future nurses for digital health practice (Booth, 2006;Fetter, 2009a&b).…”

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Digital Health in Canadian Schools of Nursing Part A: Nurse Educators’ Perspectives

Nagle¹,

Kleib²,

Furlong³

2020

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formatio

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Digital Health in Canadian Schools of Nursing Part A: Nurse Educators’ Perspectives

Nagle¹,

Kleib²,

Furlong³

2020

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formatio

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“…Information literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed, locate potential resources, develop appropriate search strategies, evaluate results, and apply relevant knowledge to decision-making [26]. As opposed to computer literacy, which involves general computing skills like word processing and email communications [27,28], information literacy emphasizes users' abilities to access, interact with, evaluate, understand and apply data and information to accomplish a specific task. Information literacy also includes users' understanding of the social, legal and economic issues with respect to use of information.…”

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Measuring Practicing Clinicians’ Information Literacy

Dixon

Barboza²,

Jensen

et al. 2017

Appl Clin Inform

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SummaryBackgroundAs healthcare moves towards technology-driven population health management, clinicians must adopt complex digital platforms to access health information and document care.ObjectivesThis study explored information literacy, a set of skills required to effectively navigate population health information systems, among primary care providers in one Veterans’ Affairs (VA) medical center.MethodsInformation literacy was assessed during an 8-month randomized trial that tested a population health (panel) management intervention. Providers were asked about their use and comfort with two VA digital tools for panel management at baseline, 16 weeks, and post-intervention. An 8-item scale (range 0-40) was used to measure information literacy (Cronbach’s a=0.84). Scores between study arms and provider types were compared using paired t-tests and ANOVAs. Associations between self-reported digital tool use and information literacy were measured via Pearson’s correlations.ResultsProviders showed moderate levels of information literacy (M= 27.4, SD 6.5). There were no significant differences in mean information literacy between physicians (M=26.4, SD 6.7) and nurses (M=30.5, SD 5.2, p=0.57 for difference), or between intervention (M=28.4, SD 6.5) and control groups (M=25.1, SD 6.2, p=0.12 for difference). Information literacy was correlated with higher rates of self-reported information system usage (r=0.547, p=0.001). Clinicians identified data access, accuracy, and interpretability as potential information literacy barriers.ConclusionsWhile exploratory in nature, cautioning generalizability, the study suggests that measuring and improving clinicians’ information literacy may play a significant role in the implementation and use of digital information tools, as these tools are rapidly being deployed to enhance communication among care teams, improve health care outcomes, and reduce overall costs.

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“…As the largest healthcare workforce [2], nurses play a pivotal role in digital health [3], and need to embrace ICT to effectively function within the contemporary healthcare environment [4]. However, barriers to the use of these technologies including poor computer literacy [5], limited workplace education and support [6], limited informatics' opportunities for undergraduate nursing students [7] and confusion about what nursing informatics is and what it means to nursing [8].…”

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Defining Nursing Informatics: A Narrative Review

Reid

Maeder

Button

et al. 2021

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

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Healthcare has experienced rapid transformation with the development of digital technologies which aim to make healthcare safer and more efficient. In response, health informatics has evolved, including nursing informatics, which integrates nursing, information and communication technologies (ICT) and professional knowledge to improve patient outcomes. New language has developed to describe informatics and its processes; however, this has generally been poorly understood. This paper will describe current definitions of nursing informatics from three different healthcare contexts: Australia, the United States of America and Canada, to identify the similarities and differences between these definitions and to summarise the distinct bodies of knowledge described by each country. These countries have amongst the oldest definition attempts in the literature. A pragmatic approach was taken in this narrative review, working forward from historic references and backwards from recent references extracted from published health and nursing informatics literature.

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How Do Future Nursing Educators Perceive Informatics? Advancing the Nursing Informatics Agenda through Dialogue

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Digital Health in Canadian Schools of Nursing Part A: Nurse Educators’ Perspectives

Digital Health in Canadian Schools of Nursing Part A: Nurse Educators’ Perspectives

Measuring Practicing Clinicians’ Information Literacy

Defining Nursing Informatics: A Narrative Review

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