title: Nursing informatics competences still challenging nurse educators.
abstract: In recent years nursing documentation has been one of the most important development areas of nursing informatics (NI) in Finland. The purpose of this study is to describe the development of the nurse educators' competences in nursing documentation during a project called eNNI. The eNNI project (2008-2010) was a cooperative project by nurse educators and working life experts. The goal of the project was to implement the national documentation model and thereby improve operational processes at workplaces. The study includes pre- and post-test questioning of NI applications with a web-based questionnaire (n=136). The data were analyzed with distribution, cross-tabulations and average tests and descriptive statistic multivariate method. According to the results, the ICT skills of the nurse educators were good at the end of the project, and they had good information literacy competence. On the other hand, their advanced NI skills left room for improvement.
authors.affiliation: Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland. elina.rajalahti@laurea.fi
authors.forename: Elina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rajalahti
authors.forename: Kaija
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saranto
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005387:Finland; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000193:education*