COMPUTER EDUCATION OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSES IN ACADEMIC AND CLINICAL SETTINGS.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Nursing education is responsible for preparing competent clinical practitioners. Today, this includes preparation for working with computers. This study determined how associate degree nursing students were taught to use computers in clinical and academic settings, and which computer competencies were desired for associate degree nurses.

During Phase One a postcard questionnaire was mailed to the 111 chairpersons of associate degree nursing programs within the Middle States area. It was determined that of the 101 programs responding, 51 (50.4%) of them included computer uses and skills within the nursing curricula. Of these 51 programs, 36 (70.5%) did not have computer competency objectives for students, 47 (92.15%) used computers in the campus setting, 16 (31.3%) used computers in the clinical settings, and 13 (25.49%) used computers in both settings. Of the 101 programs responding, 50 (49.5%) did not include computer uses and skills within the nursing curricula. Of these 50 programs, 32 (64%) were in a planning phase for computer education.

During Phase Two nurse educators identified as responsible for computer education in the 13 programs using computers in both academic and clinical settings participated in a telephone interview. The data from these interviews were presented as individual case studies, and data across the case studies were then compiled and summarized. It was determined that associate degree nursing students were being taught with computers more than being taught about computers in the academic setting. In the clinical setting associate degree nursing students were taught on-the-job to access information systems and monitor patients. The nurse educators interviewed believed associate degree nurses should have a beginning level of computer competency to access information systems, monitor patients, and utilize computer assisted instruction.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-05, Section: A, page: 1071.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1987.

School code: 0178.