Lesson 15 - NI and Nsg Educ

Sheila Lyn U. Recidoro,RN May 2011

Nursing Informatics and Nursing Education


Objectives

• Describe nursing education in relation to the Foundation of Knowledge model.

• Explore knowledge acquisition and sharing.

• Assess technology tools and delivery modalities used in nursing education.

• Compare and contrast knowledge assessment methods.


Introduction

• Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of information, data, and knowledge to support nurses, patients, and other providers in their various settings and decision-making roles.


Introduction

• In the 21st century, nursing informatics has begun to rely especially heavily on technology usability, functionality, and accessibility.

• “Software” is used to describe the instructions that direct a computer’s hardware to work.

• “Hardware” describes physical computer components, like a mouse, keyboard, and monitor.


Introduction

• When evaluating software or hardware for purchase, careful assessment of the products and services will help an educator, administrator, or student to make the best choices.

• Hardware decisions will depend upon the way a computer system will be used, in addition to cost, ease of use, and durability.


Introduction

• Technology-laden students from the millennial age demand instant information delivered in an entertaining fashion, an expectation built upon extensive exposure to e-mail, text messaging, online chatting, and the Internet.


Introduction

• Learning is a multispatial function, and in the age of technology innovation, instructional delivery can inhabit many forms in both physical and virtual spaces.


Introduction

• Most widely used teaching method among nurse educators:

traditional face-to-face lecture - 5% • Information retention rate over a 24-hour period

– demonstration (30%)– discussion groups (50%)– practice activities (75%)– peer teaching (90%)


Introduction

• The professor guides conversation and sets up discussion, acting less as classroom authority and more as facilitator, helping students maintain focus, gently guiding discussion, and ultimately empowering students to push knowledge boundaries in a safe and secure atmosphere of peer support.

• Problem-based learning takes assignments out of a contextual vacuum and applies real-life scenarios to problems or challenges.


Introduction

• E-learning, online and web-based education have caused a significant shift in student-teacher relationships in nursing education.

• Detractors of online learning initiatives suggest that sharing an online space undermines the student-teacher relationship, makes building peer relationships difficult, and generally disrupts the normal classroom dynamic, thus creating an unfamiliar, uncomfortable atmosphere.


Introduction

• The asynchronous and time-independent elements of Web-based courses answer a huge need for flexible class times by today’s growing population of nontraditional learners.

• Online learning has the capability to re-envision classroom interaction, and depending on the specific delivery mode, can even change basic pedagogical concepts.


Introduction

• Traditional courses are more frequently being offered as online, virtual classes, i.e., “distance education”: learning that occurs elsewhere than in the traditional classroom.

• Web-enhanced instruction allows technically ambivalent institutions to participate in the technology revolution without huge budgetary expenditure and also addresses a preference by some faculty for a way to include innovation and technology in classes without giving up traditional classroom engagement.


Smart Classrooms

• aka “digital” and “multimedia” classrooms computer audio-visual technologies by providing a

ceiling-mounted projector with an access point at the front of the room,

an instructor podium/workstation, sound, and network access. • The “Net” or “Millennial Generation” are

connected, digital, experiential and social.


Introduction

• Academic institutions face a multitude of challenges in trying to satisfy the information needs of users who are inundated daily by tons of information as part of their regular Web use.

• Modern tutorials attempt, to some extent, to mimic lectures by guiding users through a series of objectives or tasks, usually allowing the user to do the work at their own pace.


Introduction

• Effective tutorials surpass the simple presentation of information in a Web-based format.

• Used within healthcare circles for more than 15 years, the use of “simulations” in nursing training has experienced a recent upsurge in popularity due in part to the new availability of high-quality simulation equipment and a reduction in price for this technology.


Introduction

• The most useful teaching simulations combine high-fidelity equipment with real-time demonstrations of simulated medical emergencies, such as those enacted by the Patient Simulator Lab at the Patient Safety Institute.

• In traditional virtual reality (VR), the user receives multiple sensory inputs.


Internet Tools

• The general consensus in nursing education suggests that any technology that allows users to interact and engage both materials and each other is useful.

• Webcasts, typically live presentations delivered via the Web, offer great potential for students and faculty to engage both information and each other globally, tapping students’ multiple intelligences in order for them to access what they need.


Internet Tools

• The general consensus in nursing education suggests that any technology that allows users to interact and engage both materials and each other is useful.

• Webcasts, typically live presentations delivered via the Web, offer great potential for students and faculty to engage both information and each other globally, tapping students’ multiple intelligences in order for them to access what they need.


Internet Tools

• One of the most common and proliferate search tools in technology today is the “wiki.” – Wikis are websites or hypertext document

collections that allow users to edit and add content in an open-ended forum.

• Instant messaging (IM), one of many collaborative Web “chat” tools available to any user with a computer and Internet access.


Internet Tools

• Real-time chats occur all over the Internet, at each hour of every day. – In a chat, students can meet, discuss, and

engage each other over any given topic. • One low-investment information-gathering tool

for use by nursing professionals includes membership in a listserv.


Internet Tools

• Electronic discussion groups that use e-mail to communicate, listservs promote communication and collaboration with others interested in a particular field of study.

– Similar to listservs in the way they deliver specific information to one’s e-mail, a portal allows the personalization of a specific website.

• Portals organize information from Web pages into simple menus so that the user may choose what they want to view and how they want to view it.


Internet Tools

• Podcasts are audio recordings linked to the Web that are then downloaded to an MP3 player or computer where the listener accesses the recording or video. – “Audiopods” is a term used to describe

traditional, or audio-based, podcasts. Participating in podcasting can exercise not just basic technology skills, but also writing, editing, and speaking skills as well.


Internet Tools

• Similar to audiopods in set-up and accessibility, videopods are podcasts that provide video in addition to audio functionality. –Faculty might use videopodcasts to

demonstrate concepts, interview experts in the field, and even assess student progress.


Internet Tools

• Research suggests that the seeing, hearing, doing and interacting afforded by multimedia facilitates learning retention, with multimedia at least as effective as traditional instruction, but with the benefit of greater learner satisfaction.


Internet Tools

• Libraries have also begun to recognize their role in students’ success with and predisposition to collaborative learning with redesigned spaces that reflect students’ need to huddle in small groups, sit closely together without barriers, chat about their work, and view digital information without physical hindrances like carrels or work stalls.


Internet Tools

• Nursing preceptors and mentors, for example, can provide this kind of scaffolded support, filling roles as clinically-active role models (Armitage & Burnard, 1991) and problem-solving advocates and collaborators.

• An integral and critical component of educational programming is the evaluation of different learning methods.


Paper/Projects

• When looking for feedback and assessment of a particular learning activity, data are best collected during and at the completion of the activity.

• Evaluation by participants at the end of project is also valuable since learner can provide information related to the attainment of objectives and the teaching effectiveness of both the faculty and the learning materials while the experience is still fresh and memorable.


Paper Projects

• When a paper assignment or project does fail, the outcome provides a valuable learning opportunity for all educators to look closely at the pedagogy, structure, goals, outcomes, and expectations of success of the proposed activity and determine what needs revising or re-evaluating in order for what the educator would term “successful” completion.


Discussions

• While traditional in-class discussion seems almost outdated in light of the stunning advances in technology that allow learners to participate in every kind of activity from computer-guided online quizzes to interactive simulations, educator as facilitator still holds value and importance in a traditional or even blended classroom.


Discussions

• With legal and financial implications of employee and student performance a major concern for all providers and health care organizations, multiple requirements for competence in nursing practices within the health care system have been established by national agencies and associations, like those suggested by the American Nurses Association.


Knowledge Dissemination and Sharing

• Sharing experiences of clinical learning can help convey life-saving information to other clinicians in a way that is more memorable and less imposing than warnings delivered outside a social context.

• The power of pooled knowledge in combination with knowledge produced in dialogue with others helps to limit tunnel vision and is a powerful strategy for maximizing the clinical knowledge of a group.



• Networking encourages professional support by making successful professionals accessible to their colleagues.

• Nurses tend to gather their information from personal networks such as colleagues or professional meetings, the increased availability of technology to assist in networking has greatly facilitated information exchange.



• Formal networks, such as the International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network (INP/PNN), unveiled in 2000, promote the exchange of knowledge, resources, and expertise in order to enhance the presence of nursing in primary healthcare.

• Membership and participation in professional associations also provide ways to network and advance one’s profession.



• Publishing provides excellent opportunities to extend knowledge and share research.

• Making presentations at contemporary professional conferences allows nursing educators and students to gain experience and share scholarship with colleagues.

• Conferences often host poster presentations to share research findings, innovations and exemplar programs in a low-investment but visually-captivating way.



• One such program that facilitates educational programs for medical professionals around the nation and helps nurses reach recertification goals is the innovative Wake Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Registered Nurse (RN) Refresher Program, designed to return registered nurses to practice.


Thought Provoking Questions

1. What are some of the forces behind the push towards a more wired learning experience in nursing education?

2. What technology do you find most beneficial to use in your practice or education setting? Why do you find this tool useful? From your perspective, how could this tool be enhanced?

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Lesson 15 - NI and Nsg Educ