title: Congruency between educators' teaching beliefs and an electronic health record teaching strategy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Technology has changed healthcare institutions into automated settings with the potential to greatly enhance the quality of healthcare. Implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) to replace paper charting is one example of the influence of technology on healthcare worldwide. In the past decade nursing higher education has attempted to keep pace with technological changes by integrating EHRs into learning experiences. Little is known about educators' teaching beliefs and the use of EHRs as a teaching strategy.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study explores the composition of core teaching beliefs of nurse educators and their related teaching practices within the context of teaching with EHRs in the classroom.
  
  
  METHODS
  A collective case study and qualitative research approach was used to explore and describe teaching beliefs of seven nurse educators teaching with EHRs. Data collection included open-ended, audio-taped interviews and non-participant observation. Content analysis of transcribed interviews and observational field notes focused on identification of teaching belief themes and associated practices.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two contrasting collective case studies of teaching beliefs emerged. Constructivist beliefs were dominant, focused on experiential, student-centered, contextual and collaborative learning, and associated with expanded and a futuristic view of EHRs use. Objectivist beliefs focused on educators' control of the context of learning and were associated with a constrained, limited view of EHRs. Constructivist educators embrace technological change, an essential ingredient of educational reform.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We encourage nurse educators to adopt a constructivist view to using technology in teaching in order to prepare nurses for a rapidly changing, technologically sophisticated practice.
authors: University of Sharjah, College of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, P.O. Box No. 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Electronic address: wbaniissa@sharjah.ac.ae.
authors: Wegdan
authors: W
authors: Bani-issa
authors: University of Delaware School of Nursing, 207 McDowell Hall, 25 N. College Avenue, Newark, DE 19716, USA. Electronic address: vrempush@udel.edu.
authors: Veronica F
authors: VF
authors: Rempusheski
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D017145:Models, Educational; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Constructivist and objectivist teaching beliefs; Electronic health records; Nurse educators; Teaching practices