Baseline evaluation of nursing students' informatics competency for digital health practice: A descriptive exploratory study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The healthcare system is increasingly technology-dependent and proficiency in informatics skills is essential for health professionals to efficiently operate in the contemporary clinical environment. Nurses are major users of digital health technologies and graduates need to be well-prepared and confident to use the different available clinical systems competently as they transition from education to practice.

Aim

To explore undergraduate nursing students' self-perceptions of informatics competence, set within a larger research project.

Method

Descriptive, exploratory cross-sectional research design, with online self-assessment survey of undergraduate nursing students (n  =  142). Data were analysed with descriptive, correlation and comparative sta

SUBMITTER: Raghunathan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10236246 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature