To My Future Nursing Students

To my future nursing students,

            Originally, I came from an age that had typewriters. It didn’t take typing class because I was going to become a nurse and we didn’t need typing class to be a nurse. There were a few computers that were old bulky very heavy and not understood or used very much. I took my Bachelors of Science in Nursing Nursing at Roberts Wesleyan College in 2001. I learned how to research databases and research in general and got more familiar with computers. Computers started to be used at work and I learned how to use it without difficulty, but at college, it still was trial and error. I entered my Masters of Nursing Education in 2014 and thankfully my husband picked me out a computer that was easy for me to use and have a lot of space. Which to this day I really don’t know how much space I have. Throughout this past year and this year, I have learned about innovative technology which I find inquisitive and I have found that I am amongst the “gaining more computer literacy “bunch. I have always admitted to being computer illiterate and now I am teaching someone at work (who is more computer illiterate than me), how to use the computer, the easy way. So I guess that means that I’ve become more computer literate than what I previously was, and I would have to thank my instructors at Roberts Wesleyan College especially Dr. Judith T., who pushed us to use the computer and learn how to use new technology that is out there that we never knew about! I actually found some stuff that she didn’t use yet so it’s kind of cool. So in the future, I plan on teaching the way that you want to be taught and holding your attention with innovative technology and a little surprise every now and then. I plan on not being a boring instructor but one that you learn from! My soul desire has always been that you weren’t for me and critically think and that is what I plan to do!

I hope if you’re reading this, you are is computer illiterate as I am and will learn from technology how to be more computer literate like I have! Good luck and I will see you in the future!

         



       This module has provided me with the opportunity to explore the world of health care informatics and to appreciate the need for ensuring that I am getting more prepared to enter the world of technology in health care.
        My obligation as a nurse educator is to develop your own knowledge, skills, and attitudes concerning health care informatics and its’ relation to patient safety and quality of care. My reflection of

my own health care informatics knowledge and competencies was that of pure terror. I always admitted

to being not computer literate. I was always willing to admit that I was not computer literate. This class

is made me more computer literate and actually showing some other students how to use the computer

a little more efficiently. I was a mentor for the Roberts BSN module and one of the first things I told the

students was to get the Dragon for the computer because if you don’t know how to type it makes it

much easier for you and decreases stress. That has done that but just learning how to use the computer

has made it much easier for me to use it. Am very happy to learn new technologies on how to do things

differently to hold people’s interest. Some of the things I found were more difficult and creative and

some I found to be much more user-friendly and creative. I didn’t find anything that didn’t hold my

attention or that I didn’t want to do. I do feel I will always need to advance my knowledge of computer

learning and how to educate the students. I know if someone is standing in front of me and lecturing I

cannot tolerate it less I find it interesting for some reason and that is usually on the job with the

professor to take that under. Some people don’t care to hold students attention but it absolutely shows

and how they teach. I don’t plan on being that type of educator. I don’t believe I am that type of

educator now and I never will be.

"It is important then, for nurses to become critically aware of how and why they are using computers in

nursing care, and that they become knowledgeable and skilled enough to influence the way nursing care

becomes digitized." - June Kaminski, 2007

 

Look at this new way!!!!

           Authentic assessments is a performance-based assessment and basically includes everything we have done in this course of informatics up until now which includes  Jing, Wiki ,Globster, and blogs , this assessment allows students to demonstrate what they are familiar with. Students are asked to complete real world tasks that determine essential knowledge and skills. So far all of our authentic assessments have been on our own in this class except for our final project which is a group project. It is useful for students, and it helps to progress and shape their critical thinking skills which is not an easy task within itself. These assignments allow us to use critical thinking skills and reflection to show what we know. When working in groups we work in partnership with our peers which includes a clever collaboration agreement that we all put into and we will discover this and have discovered this in our real world of nursing. Authentic assessment objective are to assess students' skills in 'real-world' situations.  Students may learn how to relate their skills to reliable tasks and assignments. Authentic assessment does not encourage learning through repetition and passive test-taking.  It focuses on students’ talents; capacity to participate in what they learn; resourcefulness; ability to work as a team; and oral and written expression skills. It ideals the learning development as much as the complete product

         Feed forward refers to: where my going, how am I going, and where to next and how to get there? Feedback is sought out about a particular assignment or received based on criteria for an assignment. Feedback is loaded back into the grade center and this allows for structure. Anything can go in the feedback which is all information discussed and placed on wiki. I would call our feed forward would be our collaborative agreement and everything that we’ve worked on an informatics. I really enjoyed using Jing and after I got used to using move notes I actually enjoyed using not believe it or not but I think the person who is giving the instruction on how to use it is key to making you feel comfortable or not. If it is explained correctly there is less stress involved and less having to do over and over. When we use gene it is reinforcements but it is pretty much positive reinforcement to show the student where grammatical errors or sentence errors were made and it also can be used for projects which I plan to use in the future.