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Education into policy: Embedding Health Informatics to Prepare Future Nurses - a New Zealand case study
ABSTRACT
Background:
Preparing emerging health professionals for practice in an ever-changing health care environment along with continually evolving technology is an international concern. This is particularly pertinent for nursing because nurses make up the largest part of the health workforce.
Objective:
Consider how health informatics can be included in undergraduate health professional education.
Methods:
A case study approach explored health informatics within undergraduate nursing education in New Zealand. This has led to the development of nursing informatics guidelines for nurses entering practice.
Results:
The process used to develop nursing informatics guidelines for entry to practice in New Zealand is described. The final guidelines are based on literature and refined using an advisory group and an iterative process.
Conclusions:
While this article describes the development of nursing informatics guidelines for nurses entering practice, the challenge is to move these guidelines from educational rhetoric to policy. It is only through ensuring health informatics is embedded in the undergraduate education of all health professionals can we be assured that future health professionals are prepared to work effectively, efficiently and safely with information and communication technologies as part of their practice.
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