Prescription for nursing informatics in pre-registration nurse education

Bond, Carol; Procter, Paula M.

doi:10.1177/1460458208099868

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“…The need for nurses to develop both practical skills, and a knowledge base to enable the effective use of those skills, is stressed by Bond and Procter (2009). This research however suggests that whilst nursing students may now be starting their pre-registration programme with at least adequate skills, they do not have the knowledge base to apply those skills effectively.…”

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Surfing or still drowning? Student nurses’ Internet skills

Bond

2010

Nurse Education Today

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SummaryA study into student nurses' ability to use the Internet was published in Nurse Education Today in 2004. This paper repeats the research with a cohort of students starting their pre-registration programme in a UK university in 2007.In 2004 students were reported as having poor internet skills, and as not being frequent users of the Internet. In this study students were found to have significantly better ability to carry out basic tasks and significantly higher levels of internet use. Their ability to apply these skills to more complex information literacy tasks however had not increased, with more than half of all students saying they found far too much irrelevant information when searching for specific information on the internet. The earlier study found that skills and age were not related, which appears to still be the case.The need for these skills is increasing as education, lifelong learning, and patient information are all increasingly drawing on the developing Internet. Nurse education however is not integrating the skill and knowledge base essential to support this into preregistration programmes, and the evidence suggests that this will not happen without active management.

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confidence: 79%

Surfing or still drowning? Student nurses’ Internet skills

Bond

2010

Nurse Education Today

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“…26 Similarly, nursing informatics needs to be included in preregistration programs to ensure that graduate nurses are ready for the information-and technology-rich healthcare environment of the future. 28 …”

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Development of a Blended Model of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Students on Rostered Placement to Ensure Competence in Information and Communication Technology for Professional Practice in Ireland

Creedon

Cummins²

2012

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing

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Experiences gained from delivering a Health Informatics for Nurses course in a school of nursing and midwifery in a university teaching hospital in Ireland suggest that Web-based courses may facilitate an enhanced understanding of course content. Nursing education must recognize the importance of information and communication technology in nursing to prepare the nursing and midwifery profession to embrace current advances in information and communication technology in healthcare in Ireland, and ultimately to benefit patient care.

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“…6 The nursing profession focuses on how the nurses use IT in their workplace and published the nursing informatics competencies. 7,[10][11] Most of the work in assessing informatics competencies to guide development of the training curriculum is in the biomedical, 12 nursing informatics 13 and dental 14 sciences. These studies underscored that: 1) there is a tremendous need to further develop training programs to meet the demand; and that, 2) materials varied widely within limited training modality in health informatics.…”

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Understanding public health informatics competencies for mid-tier public health practitioners—a Web-based survey

Hsu

Dunn

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Health Informatics J

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The literature suggests that there is a need for measuring public health informatics (PHI) competency to further understand whether current educational modules and modalities meet the needs of PHI practitioners and researchers to perform their jobs more effectively, particularly for mid-tier practitioners that constitute the majority of public health workers in the USA. The present study seeks to update current knowledge of the perceptions and experiences of PHI competencies proposed by the U.S. Council on Linkage in Public Health specifically for mid-tier PH practitioners and researchers. The results were collected and analyzed by using a Web-based survey (WBS) method administered among both practitioners and researchers. Researchers first compiled a draft list of candidate competency set by incorporating existing competency areas provided by: 1) the Council on Linkage; and by 2) those proposed by the USA's Centers for Disease Control CDC Public Health Informatics Work Group. Nine sets of competency statements with 120 competency items and demographic information of respondents were included in the WBS. The online survey instruments were pilot-tested accordingly to incorporate feedback from respondents of the pilot. Fifty-six subjects were recruited from PH experts who were: 1) members of the Health Informatics Information Technology (HIIT) group of American Public Health Association; and, 2) members from the Community of Science (COS) Website who were the first authors published in the PHI field from PubMed. The sample included diverse backgrounds of PHI workers. They expressed an increased need for training to improve their PHI competencies. Respondents agreed that four competency sets should be adequately represented, including Leadership and System Thinking Skills (82%), followed by Financial Planning and Management Skills (79%), Community Dimensions of Practice Skills (77%), and Policy Development/Program Planning Skills (63%). The findings parallel current literature indicating that there exists an expressed need for clarification of the public health practitioner's job-specific informatics competency. Findings of expressed needs for basic computer literacy training and community-based practice were consistent with those of the literature. Additional training and resources should be allocated to address the competency of leadership, management, community-based practice and policy advocacy skills for mid-tier public health practitioners to perform their jobs more effectively. Only when healthcare organizations properly identify PHI competency needs will public health practitioners likely improve their overall informatics skills while improving diversification for contribution across multiple settings.

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Prescription for nursing informatics in pre-registration nurse education

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Surfing or still drowning? Student nurses’ Internet skills

Surfing or still drowning? Student nurses’ Internet skills

Development of a Blended Model of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Students on Rostered Placement to Ensure Competence in Information and Communication Technology for Professional Practice in Ireland

Understanding public health informatics competencies for mid-tier public health practitioners—a Web-based survey

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