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Embedding Nursing Informatics Education into an Australian Undergraduate Nursing Degree
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Cummings, EA and Shin, EH and Mather, CA and Hovenga, E, Embedding Nursing Informatics Education into an Australian Undergraduate Nursing Degree, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 225 pp. 329-333. ISSN 0926-9630 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-329
Abstract
Alongside the rapid rise in the adoption of electronic health records and the use of technology to support nursing processes, there is a requirement for nursing students, new graduate nurses, and nursing educators to embrace nursing informatics. Whilst nursing informatics has been taught at post graduate levels for many years, the integration of it into undergraduate studies for entry level nurses has been slow. This is made more complex by the lack of explicit nursing informatics competencies in many countries. Australia has now mandated the inclusion of nursing informatics into all undergraduate nursing curricula but there continues to be an absence of a relevant set of agreed nursing competencies. There is a resulting lack of consistency in nursing curricula content nationally. This paper describes the process used by one Australian university to integrate nursing informatics throughout the undergraduate nursing degree curriculum to ensure entry level nurses have a basic level of skills in the use of informatics.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | undergraduate nursing, curriculum, nursing informatics, education, curriculum development, competency |
| Research Division: | Medical and Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Nursing |
| Research Field: | Nursing not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Health and Support Services |
| Objective Field: | Nursing |
| Author: | Cummings, EA (Associate Professor Liz Cummings) |
| Author: | Shin, EH (Mrs Eun Shin) |
| Author: | Mather, CA (Ms Carey Mather) |
| ID Code: | 109765 |
| Year Published: | 2016 |
| Deposited By: | Health Sciences |
| Deposited On: | 2016-06-30 |
| Last Modified: | 2016-11-16 |
| Downloads: | 31 View Download Statistics |
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