Compounding these challenges are the expectations of "digital natives" or students who have grown up in the digital age and already possess advanced computer skills. Though these "Digital Natives" may possess digital skills, they may not know how to appropriately, safely and effectively use these to enhance care and outcomes for all stakeholders.
Students are ready to learn and incorporate these concepts, though nursing education needs to find more innovative and effective ways to level these concepts across the curricula. Some of these challenges include: The capture of AACN Essentials, QSEN KSAs and TIGER competencies that correspond with program goals to clarify, add precision and improve alignment with the AACN Baccalaureate, Masters and DNP Essentials and each program’s goals.
Faculty and students need and want to be endowed with the literacies and capacities needed to thrive in a world defined by technology, a world where anyone can access just about anything on demand, anytime, and from anywhere. Nursing education needs new approaches to guide our ever-connected students. We are at a decisive point in time, where the old ways of operating is rapidly changing. The what, the why and the appropriate use of technology with today’s nursing student are all about active engagement with content knowledge we expect of our graduates as they enter practice.
This presentation will: Explore methods of integrating professional standards for nursing informatics and digital health into programs aimed at pre-licensure nursing students, graduate and DNP students; share ways to infuse nursing informatics and patient care technologies to pre-licensure to DNP students; provide nursing informatics and ICT resources and tools that can be easily incorporated into existing curricula; and share lessons learned.