Integrating informatics into undergraduate nursing education – a spiral learning approach

TY - JOUR

T1 - Integrating informatics into undergraduate nursing education – a spiral learning approach

AU - O'Connor, Siobhán

AU - LaRue, Elizabeth

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - A gap in informatics expertise amongst nursing students, practising staff and faculty has been noted globally, which reduces the potential for nurses to utilise technology to enhance patient care. National nursing education strategies and recommendations from professional associations have identified digital health as an area that needs investment. This case study describes how health informatics is being integrated into a Bachelor of Nursing programme in the United Kingdom. An international collaboration with a US-UK Fulbright Specialist Scholar enabled individual learning units corresponding to key health informatics competencies to be designed and incorporated into a pedagogic framework grounded in the spiral learning approach. This approach is proposed as one way to integrate informatics into nursing education, so students can become competent clinicians that are able to deliver technology enabled care in the health service.

AB - A gap in informatics expertise amongst nursing students, practising staff and faculty has been noted globally, which reduces the potential for nurses to utilise technology to enhance patient care. National nursing education strategies and recommendations from professional associations have identified digital health as an area that needs investment. This case study describes how health informatics is being integrated into a Bachelor of Nursing programme in the United Kingdom. An international collaboration with a US-UK Fulbright Specialist Scholar enabled individual learning units corresponding to key health informatics competencies to be designed and incorporated into a pedagogic framework grounded in the spiral learning approach. This approach is proposed as one way to integrate informatics into nursing education, so students can become competent clinicians that are able to deliver technology enabled care in the health service.

U2 - 10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102934

DO - 10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102934

M3 - Article

SN - 1471-5953

VL - 50

JO - Nurse Education in Practice

JF - Nurse Education in Practice

IS - 102934

ER -