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MDAC 2024: "Increasing Nurse Leader Knowledge and Awareness of Information and Communication Technologies"

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Stephens, Cory
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2024-05-20
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Background: Rapid technological innovation and nursing practice transformation has exposed a technological skills gap that undermines the benefits of Informationa and Communication Technologyies (ICT) to nursing practice such as increased nurse satisfaction, improved care quality, and reduced costs. Nurse leaders are positioned to promote the use of ICT among nurses but may suffer from the same knowledge deficit of ICT as their followers. A literature search revealed the following themes relevant to nursing practice: the role of nurse leaders in ICT adoption; the need for ICT education among nurse leaders; and nurse satisfaction. Methods: Guided by technological competencies as caring in nursing theory, nurse-computer interaction framework, and nursing intellectual capital theory, this DNP scholarly project was designed to determine if an educational intervention focused on ICT increased knowledge and awareness among nurse leaders in a federal clinical research hospital. Results: With pretest and posttest data from twenty-eight (N = 28) voluntary participants, a Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was used to estimate data measuring learning. An increase in knowledge of ICT (z = -4.72, p < 0.001), an increase in awareness of the benefits of ICT to nursing practice (z = -3.50, p < 0.001), and an increase in awareness of the role of nurse leaders to promote ICT (z = -3.57, p < 0.001) were indicated. Conclusion: Based on these results, nurse leaders should complete ICT training regularly. Also, nurse leaders should promote ICT use among nurses by including ICT as an essential nursing competency and provide continuing professional development in ICT to their nurse followers. Moreover, health care organizations should recognize the key role that nurse leaders play in promoting ICT use among nurses and the many benefits of ICT to organizational outcomes like increased nurse satisfaction, improved care quality, and reduced costs. These organizations should support ICT education for all nurses and include nurse leaders in the development, redesign, and implementation of ICT.

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Presented at the Maryland Action Coalition Virtual Leadership Summit 2024: Revolution vs. Rearrangement: How to Realistically Reimage Nursing Education and Practice
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