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!!!!