title: e-Learning competency for practice nurses: an evaluation report.
abstract: Practice nurses in Australia are now funded to facilitate chronic condition management, including self-management support. Chronic disease management requires an established rapport, support and proactivity between general practitioners, patients and the practice nurses. To achieve this, training in shared decision making is needed. e-Learning supports delivery and achievement of such policy outcomes, service improvements and skill development. However, e-learning effectiveness for health care professionals' is determined by several organisational, economic, pedagogical and individual factors, with positive e-learning experience linked closely to various supports. This paper reinforces previous studies showing nurses' expanding role across general practice teams and reports on some of the challenges of e-learning. Merely providing practice nurses with necessary information via web-based learning systems does not ensure successful learning or progress toward improving health outcomes for patients.
authors.affiliation: Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit, The Margaret Tobin Centre, Flinders University, PO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heartfield
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morello
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lawn
authors.forename: Vincenza
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pols
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stapleton
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Battersby
mesh_terms: D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D001315:Australia; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D019468:Disease Management; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D058006:General Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D000078329:Workforce