title: Long distance education for croatian nurses with open source software.
abstract: Croatian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) has been established as result of continuing work on promoting nursing informatics in Croatia. Main goals of CNIA are promoting nursing informatics and education of nurses about nursing informatics and using information technology in nursing process. CNIA in start of work is developed three courses from nursing informatics all designed with support of long distance education with open source software. Courses are: A - 'From Data to Wisdom', B - 'Introduction to Nursing Informatics' and C - 'Nursing Informatics I'. Courses A and B are obligatory for C course. Technology used to implement these online courses is based on the open source Learning Management System (LMS), Claroline, free online collaborative learning platform. Courses are divided in two modules/days. First module/day participants have classical approach to education and second day with E-learning from home. These courses represent first courses from nursing informatics' and first long distance education for nurses also.
authors.affiliation: Croatian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA), Zagreb, Croatia. sandi.rn@gmail.com
authors.forename: Aleksandar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radenovic
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalauz
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D020375:Education, Distance; D004506:Education, Nursing; D012984:Software