Nursing Informatics: Competency Challenges for Nursing Faculty.

Nursing is the largest workforce in health care with nurses increasingly required to work with digital health technologies. However, despite the adoption of nursing informatics in Australia in the mid-1980s, nursing graduates are not being adequately equipped to use these technologies in a way that benefits the profession and improves patient care. Using a scoping review approach, this paper presents an analysis of contemporary published literature and describes the barriers to faculty engagement with digital health technologies in undergraduate nursing education.

Challenging the Myth of the Digital Native: A Narrative Review.

Background And Aims: Nurses are increasingly engaging with digital technologies to enhance safe, evidence-based patient care. Digital literacy is now considered a foundational skill and an integral requirement for lifelong learning, and includes the ability to search efficiently, critique information and recognise the inherent risk of bias in information sources. However, at many universities, digital literacy is assumed.

Nursing informatics and undergraduate nursing curricula: A scoping review protocol.

Aim: This scoping review aims to review contemporary published literature on Nursing Informatics education in undergraduate nursing education.

Introduction: Nursing is the largest workforce in health care and nurses are increasingly required to work with digital information systems. The need for nurses to understand and embrace information technology is closely linked with the ability to function in the contemporary healthcare workplace.

Evaluating fundamental care knowledge to inform educational leadership.

Aim: To explore undergraduate nursing students' understanding of fundamental care and identify educational leadership opportunities to deepen students' understanding of fundamental care concepts.

Design: Sequential-explanatory mixed methods study.

Methods: We conducted a cross sectional survey (n = 202) and focus groups (n = 24) to explore undergraduate nursing students' ability to identify fundamental care needs.

The impact of virtual simulation on the recognition and response to the rapidly deteriorating patient among undergraduate nursing students.

A major patient safety challenge is recognition and response to deteriorating patients since early warning signs are often not detected in a timely manner. Nursing students typically learn the skills for early identification through clinical placement, but clinical placements are not guaranteed to provide exposure to deteriorating patients. Nursing students require practice with emergency scenarios to develop their competency and confidence to act in this area.

Defining Nursing Informatics: A Narrative Review.

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.

The Care Informatics and Technologies Project - Enhancing Capability, Motivation and Opportunities in Digital Health Among Health Professionals and Students.

A change in the behaviour of the current and future workforce in regards to how they approach the needs and challenges in the healthcare sector is necessary to transit from the current curative paradigm in health to a new one focused on prevention and rational use of resources. Digital health is instrumental in the adoption of this new paradigm as most e-health applications focus on a preventive and personalized approach, on lifestyle changes (e.g.

The use of digital badges by undergraduate nursing students: A three-year study.

During a three-year study, 32% (n = 67) in 2015, 16% (n = 44) in 2016 and 55% (n = 161) of students in 2017 expressed an interest in using digital badges to enhance their learning. But who are these students? This paper explores the features of students who are interested in using digital badges as a motivational reward to prepare for weekly face-to-face classes through engaging with online activities and resources. This paper uses a first-year undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing bioscience topic at an Australian university to report nursing students' interests around playing games, their digital badge history during the topic, and their self-reported attitudinal interest in using digital badges to enhance and personalise their learning.

E-learning & information communication technology (ICT) in nursing education: A review of the literature.

Objectives: To examine primary research articles published between January 2001 and December 2012 that focused on the issues for students and educators involved with E-learning in preregistration nursing programs. The literature was systematically reviewed, critically appraised and thematically analyzed.

Background: E-learning is arguably the most significant change to occur in nursing education since the move from hospital training to the tertiary sector.

Flight nurses in Australia: maintaining their midwifery competence - a case study.

Flight nurses (FNs) in Australia care for a wide diversity of patients as sole practitioners. No studies could be located regarding how FNs maintain their midwifery competence. The purpose of this study was to investigate how levels of competence in midwifery practice are determined amongst Australian FNs and explore if continuing professional development (CPD) contributes to the maintenance of FN's midwifery clinical skills and knowledge.

Third-year undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of high-fidelity simulation.

High-fidelity simulation, with the potential to enhance cognitive, associative, and autonomous skills, can help students develop clinical reasoning. This study examined third-year students' (N = 300) perceptions about the implementation of high-fidelity simulation into an existing clinical course. Data were collected using an evaluation form completed by students after the simulation.

Suprapubic catheters--a shared understanding, from the other side looking in.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the experiences of people living with a suprapubic catheter.

Method: This descriptive study was guided by the philosophy of Gadamerian hermeneutics. Data were gathered via indepth interviews with 6 adults living in the community who had a suprapubic catheter for long-term urinary bladder drainage.