Biomedical subjects

Rod Ward

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PubMed2006

Supporting pre-registration students in practice: A review of current ICT use.

It is unclear how current healthcare students based in the United Kingdom (UK) use information and communication technology (ICT) to support their learning and care delivery in practice environments. This position reflects the dearth of current empirical evidence that needs development in this rapidly changing field. Using focus group interviews involving 16 students from nursing and the allied health professions, to reflect the interprofessional nature of healthcare education, this research explored how students employ technology in placement settings. The students drew on networked resources for personal learning and gave examples of use to meet patient and user needs. Technology also provided a vehicle for communication with the University, though use was complicated by a number of issues. Access to computers and the Internet whilst in placement environments proved problematic for some, with the culture not seeming to support ICT use. Lack of time, attitudes towards computers and ICT skills also affected student engagement. These findings provide information to guide the development of ICT use in placement settings.

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PubMed2006

A study of ICT use and developments in supporting pre-registration students in practice.

This study aimed to obtain students views about the potential for the use of ICT in supporting students in practice settings and perceived barriers. Focus group interviews involving 16 students from nursing and the allied health professions found that students drew on networked resources for personal learning and meeting patient needs. Access to computers whilst in placements proved problematic for some, with the culture not seeming to support ICT use. Lack of time, attitudes towards computers and ICT skills also affected student engagement.

Allied Health Personnel↗

PubMed2002

Individual differences in nurse and teacher training students' attitudes toward and use of information technology.

Students in both nurse and teacher training are now expected to learn to make effective use of IT for their profession. However, they enter training with a variety of experience in IT which will affect how they respond to further IT skills training. In this survey, 154 nursing and 128 teacher training students reported on the uses they had made of computers and their attitudes towards them. Also, as a sense of being in control of the computer is important for becoming involved in its use, they completed a questionnaire to locate their locus of internal control. The teacher training students were more likely than the nursing students to have access to a home computer, to use computers more often and to have used a greater variety of software. However, this may be a gender effect as a greater proportion of the teacher trainees were male. For both teacher training and nursing students, having a more internal locus of control was correlated with more positive attitudes towards computers. This finding is important for those introducing students to the use of IT in their professions, so that appropriate software and teaching styles involving less open-ended tasks may be provided for the less internally controlled individuals. Interestingly, a much stronger relationship between being more internally controlled and being less scared of using a computer was found for teacher trainees than for nurse trainees. Thus for nurse trainees it is more likely that there are other individual factors predisposing them to fear using computers.

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NMAP: UK's nursing Internet gateway.

This article describes the development of NMAP, the UK academic gateway to high-quality Internet resources for Nurses, Midwives and Allied health Professionals. The service is described and the rationale for NMAP summarized, focusing on the increasing use of Internet resources in nursing education and practice. International concerns over the quality of health information available on the Internet are considered, and the approach adopted by NMAP to quality filtering described. The usage data and results of evaluation studies show the need for this type of Internet gateway, and some of the lessons may be relevant to others involved in developing national high-quality Internet gateways for nurses.

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