BASIC IT SKILLS ECDL NATIONAL EVENT

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BASIC IT SKILLS (ECDL) NATIONAL EVENT
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EducationComprehensionDevelopment Life Long
Learning

• The nursing ECDLLL

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WWW.RCN.ORG.UK

• The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is the UK's
  largest professional association and union for
  nurses, with over 380,000 members. Most RCN
  members work in the NHS, with around a quarter
  working in the independent sector.
• The RCN works locally, nationally, and
  internationally to promote standards of care and
  the interests of patients and nurses, and of
  nursing as a profession. The RCN is a major
  contributor to the development of nursing
  practice, standards of care and health policy.

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By the year 2010 nurses will reach for e-tools
(on-line reference, mouse, light pen etc) as
readily as they reach now for the pen, reference
book or the telephone
THE TIMES THEY ARE e-CHANGIN '

Sharon Levy RCN Informatics adviser
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Operating System
Broad-Band
Computers
Self Care
Hardware/Software
Databases
Ergonomics
Spreadsheets
Change
RAM/ROM
Equity
Effectiveness/Efficiency
Security/confidentiality
Best Practice
but what is informatics ???
Empowerment
NHS24
Internet/Intranet
E-Health
Decision Support
Mobile/ Hand-held devices
ICRS
EPR/EHR
E-mail
Telehealth
Computerised Care Plans
Integrated Care Pathway
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Nursing InformaticsDefinition
Blum (1986) identified three core elements of
(nursing) informatics including
Data discrete entities that are described
objectively without interpretation Information
Data that are interpreted, organised or
structured Knowledge Information that has been
synthesised so that interrelationships are
identified and formalised
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From Data collectors toInformation managers

• Nurses communicate with patients, their families
  and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Nurses study patients records and add
  observations and planned care to it.
• Nurses monitor instruments that report on
  patients condition,
• Nurses perform tests and review the results of
  tests performed by others.

We not only use patients/clients data extensively
but also obtain and record much of it thus
enabling it to become structured and meaningful
information.
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From Data collectors toInformation managers
ontoKnowledge Workers

• Pravikof, Pierce and tanner (2005)
• 64.5 of nurses report needing information
  weekly or several times weekly, only 26.7 have
  recived training in using tools to access
  evidence
• Only 11 cite searching information from
  evidence weekly or more often
• Nearly half (48.5) are not familiar with the
  term Evidence based Practice (USA!)

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UK Evidence (RCN Information Needs Analysis)

• Nurses with best access to information are more
  likely to change practice as a result of research
• Employers attitudes are crucial
• Significant numbers still have no or limited
  access to computers at work
• Nurses in the independent or community sectors
  are more likely to have less access to information

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Is ECDL a vehicle to empower nursing
professionals and assist in their transition onto
Knowledge workersORis ECDL perceived as a
threat to the professional who sees it as a
training tool for data input operators
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RCN Survey on NHS IT Developments (2004/5) N
3000
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Q10. In your opinion, what effect will the
integrated electronic health care records
development have on clinical care?
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Q11. What effect will the integrated electronic
health care records development have on your
working life?
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Q12. How important a priority is the integrated
electronic health care records development for
the NHS at this time?
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Q17. How important is the provision of training
to the success of integrated electronic health
care records?
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Q18. How much IT training have you received
within working time in the last six months?
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They also told us

• Very helpful to be given the opportunity to
  undertake the "ECDL". Although fully paid for by
  NHS, the "ECDL" has to be done in own time, with
  no allocation for learning in work time, despite
  it being essential that we have computer skills
  in order to function in the workplace.

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• I completed the ECDL last year but still find
  that even more knowledge would make me more time
  efficient. My IT skills now are often greater
  than that of clerical staff and I find myself
  inputting data and performing other
  administrative tasks. This is not a good use of
  my time

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• I am not very technologically minded and find it
  hard to learn IT skills and retain aspects that I
  do not use every day e.g. PowerPoint
  presentations so I tend to muddle through and
  seek help from a secretary at my terminal when I
  get stuck. To access hospital in house training
  requires being able to commit to a half day
  session and pre book I find I end up cancelling
  because clinical issues take priority.

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• I think we need to look at the training of
  nurses and health care assistants in IT.
  Especially at how and who is doing training.
  Computers and IT training can be very
  intimidating to some nurses and often the
  trainers are highly skilled IT experts who
  intimidate you even more.

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To conclude.

• E
• C
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• LLLL

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Education Lobby HEI for informatics as a core
nursing competency within curriculum
Comprehension Relate it to the nursing
clinical world and to Evidence Based Practice
(The IM in IMT), Development Link training
into other professional development opportunities
(Audit, Clinical Governance, RD) and grow
in-house champions (how did I use PP for patient
education)Life Long LearningBreak units into
chunks which could be accessed on intranet for
refreshing skills and just for fun.Make ECDL
part of the learning culture rather then
majoring on the training elementsbuthey,
you are the experts!