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Technology- The New Norm
Anabel A. Perez
Grand Canyon University
NUR-647E: Nursing Education Seminar
I Dr. Deborah Clark
April 21, 2021
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Technology- The New Norm
Over the last three decades, technology has made a large impact in the health care world.
For example, shifting from hand-written patient charts to electronic charts, hand-written
prescriptions to E-scribing, and most recently, the wide use of telehealth care visits preferred
over face-to-face health care visits. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how technological
advancements have forced nurse educators to become not only tech savvy to incorporate
technology-based teaching strategies in nursing education, but to also incorporate health
informatics into curriculum development to prepare a nursing workforce for constant evolving
health care systems. According to Nazeha et al. (2020) educating future health care workers to
be competent in technology is important for several reasons. A discussion of why this has been
an issue in the academic setting along with proposed strategies to overcome this issue for nurse
educators will also be included in this paper.
As technology continues to revolutionize healthcare, as mentioned above, the need for
nurses to be adequately equipped with the knowledge and skills to in health informatics is of
upmost importance. It is the duty of academic nurse educators to ensure the future nursing
workforce fulfills the competencies to be proficient at delivering a large range of health care
with technological advances that improve the quality of patient care, the delivery of patient
health information, support of clinical decision making and coordination of care across
multidisciplinary teams of health care professionals. However, some academic nurse educators
do not yet even have the technical knowledge themselves, making them ill-prepared to develop
curriculum for technology health care trends. Another issue stands with the increasing need for
education to be provided on a more diverse setting such as providing distance education via
online courses (O’Connor et al., 2017, p 78).
Technology- The New Norm
Anabel A. Perez
Grand Canyon University
NUR-647E: Nursing Education Seminar
I Dr. Deborah Clark
April 21, 2021
, 2
Technology- The New Norm
Over the last three decades, technology has made a large impact in the health care world.
For example, shifting from hand-written patient charts to electronic charts, hand-written
prescriptions to E-scribing, and most recently, the wide use of telehealth care visits preferred
over face-to-face health care visits. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how technological
advancements have forced nurse educators to become not only tech savvy to incorporate
technology-based teaching strategies in nursing education, but to also incorporate health
informatics into curriculum development to prepare a nursing workforce for constant evolving
health care systems. According to Nazeha et al. (2020) educating future health care workers to
be competent in technology is important for several reasons. A discussion of why this has been
an issue in the academic setting along with proposed strategies to overcome this issue for nurse
educators will also be included in this paper.
As technology continues to revolutionize healthcare, as mentioned above, the need for
nurses to be adequately equipped with the knowledge and skills to in health informatics is of
upmost importance. It is the duty of academic nurse educators to ensure the future nursing
workforce fulfills the competencies to be proficient at delivering a large range of health care
with technological advances that improve the quality of patient care, the delivery of patient
health information, support of clinical decision making and coordination of care across
multidisciplinary teams of health care professionals. However, some academic nurse educators
do not yet even have the technical knowledge themselves, making them ill-prepared to develop
curriculum for technology health care trends. Another issue stands with the increasing need for
education to be provided on a more diverse setting such as providing distance education via
online courses (O’Connor et al., 2017, p 78).
