Abstract
Background:
Health informatics competencies, digital health education, and nursing students' perceptions of technology are critical to ensure a future digitally capable health care workforce.
Purpose:
To explore preregistration students' perceptions of digital health technology impact on their role as nurses.
Methods:
Using a qualitative exploratory approach, students from 2 Australian universities were purposively sampled. Data were collected through photo-elicitation from 3 focus groups and thematically analyzed. Photo-elicitation provided reference points to encourage more in-depth exploration.
Results:
Themes included fear of the unknown and who am I? Nursing in a digital world. Human interaction was fundamental to their nursing role and digital health technology could depersonalize care, creating tension around their reason for choosing a nursing career.
Conclusions:
Educators should prepare students to redefine their nursing identity by exploring how digital health technology augments their practice and critical thinking skills, while addressing fear of a perceived threat to the future of nursing.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Review and Exam Preparation,LPN and LVN,Fundamentals and skills,Education
Cited by
3 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献