Nursing informatics in undergraduate nursing education in Australia before COVID-19: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Technology can support transformational outcomes of high quality and evidenced-based care and education. Embedding nursing informatics into the undergraduate nursing curriculum enhances nursing students' digital health literacy, whilst preparing them to use health information systems and technological innovations to support their learning both at university and in the clinical environment.

Aim

This scoping review aimed to provide an overview of the published literature on how nursing informatics was embedded and integrated into the undergraduate nursing curriculum in Australia before coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Methodology

A scoping review approach guided this study using the Levac, Colquhoun, and O'Brien framework, and the following databases were sear

SUBMITTER: Harerimana A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8626237 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature