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Improving Technological Competency in Nursing Students: The Passport Project

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dc.creator Julie Edwards
dc.creator Patricia A. O’Connor
dc.date 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:06:09Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:06:09Z
dc.identifier 1547-500X
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/fa921ee77e9547cc8d3b495de0e2b8a5
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10309
dc.identifier.uri https://doaj.org/article/fa921ee77e9547cc8d3b495de0e2b8a5
dc.description Integration of informatics competency into a nursing curriculum is important to ensure success throughout the education and career of contemporary nursing students. As enrollment in nursing programs increases, the diverse population of students from many different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds presents a challenge for faculty in addressing unique learning needs. Competency in informatics will allow the beginning nursing student to navigate the on-line teaching software used by colleges. With rigorous expectations in nursing programs, students may feel overwhelmed with assignments, organization, and time management. Frustration may build when students struggle with basic informatics competency, often leaving them unable to navigate instructional websites or work with necessary on-line learning content. The purpose of this project, Passport Project for Nursing Success, was to assess the skills, knowledge, and informatics comfort level of students, while providing computer training and teaching for beginning nursing students in an undergraduate nursing program in Central Illinois. The community college encompassed students from a ten county area, with 20 percent of the student population enrolled in the Applied Science curriculum. Initial implementation occurred prior to the students' first nursing course and emphasized basic skills necessary to navigate on-line learning software, library search engines, and electronic communication. The greatest barrier to successful implementation was faculty resistance and academic support during completion of the initial implementation of the Passport Project. Post- project surveys indicated overwhelming student support for the education received and improved retention rates of first semester nursing students.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Journal of Educators Online
dc.relation http://www.thejeo.com/Archives/Volume8Number2/EdwardsandOConnorPaper.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1547-500X
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Journal of Educators Online, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2011)
dc.subject Computer literacy
dc.subject informatics
dc.subject nursing competency
dc.subject nursing students
dc.subject information literacy
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Improving Technological Competency in Nursing Students: The Passport Project
dc.type Article


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