title: Knowledge Transfer in Health Care Through Digitally Collecting Learning Experiences - Results of Witra Care.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The goal of the project Witra Care was to investigate how far the use of mobile technology is suitable to collect experience-based knowledge of nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nine new employees and seven experienced nurses received for six weeks a mobile phone or a tablet pc with a mobile application that allowed them to collect learning object as pictures, videos, audio files or notes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In Witra Care the nurses created 303 learning objects. They have found the collecting of learning experiences was helpful for their learning processes. The learning objects demonstrate various aspects of daily routines in nursing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of Witra Care show that the documentation of learning experiences with mobile devices helps to gather information about the practical knowledge in the daily work of nurses, identifies individual learning needs of the employees and supports them in their personal learning processes.
authors.affiliation: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Germany.
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Behrends
authors.affiliation: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kupka
authors.affiliation: Department for Nursing Science - Hannover Medical School, Hannover.
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmeer
authors.affiliation: Department for Nursing Science - Hannover Medical School, Hannover.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Meyenburg-Altwarg
authors.affiliation: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marschollek
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005103:Expert Systems; D005858:Germany; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D063731:Mobile Applications / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014584:User-Computer Interface