Conference paper
Need for a Shared Responsibility for Developing Digital Expertise in the Nursing Profession
Health. Innovation. Community: Engage. Disrupt. Transform - Papers from the 29th Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC2025) Conference , pp.24-27
Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC) Conference, 29th (Melbourne, Australia, 18-Aug-2025–20-Aug-2025)
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics , 333, IOS Press
2025
PMID: 41235487
Abstract
The digital health technology readiness of nurses, nursing students, nurse academics, and nurse leaders in Australia was explored. Dominant themes included disillusionment between expectation and reality, and shared responsibility for the development of digital expertise. Adoption of existing capability and competence frameworks into curricula may be slow because of the accreditation requirements for nursing and midwifery programs. Health services collaborating with universities to provide nursing students with the opportunity for learning digital technologies while on clinical placement may enhance their confidence, enabling them to move beyond using technology effectively to focusing on learning to identify how data can inform improvements to patient care.
Details
- Title
- Need for a Shared Responsibility for Developing Digital Expertise in the Nursing Profession
- Authors
- Gordana Dermody - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingMay El Haddad - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingDan Wadsworth - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingRoslyn Prichard - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingAlison Craswell (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nursing
- Contributors
- Jen Bichel-Findlay (Editor) - University of Technology Sydney
- Publication details
- Health. Innovation. Community: Engage. Disrupt. Transform - Papers from the 29th Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC2025) Conference , pp.24-27
- Conference details
- Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC) Conference, 29th (Melbourne, Australia, 18-Aug-2025–20-Aug-2025)
- Series
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics ; 333
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.3233/SHTI251570; 10.3233/SHTI333
- ISSN
- 1879-8365
- PMID
- 41235487
- Copyright note
- © 2025 The Authors. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991184345902621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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