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ICT Literacy in Nursing Education

Compiled by Lesley Farmer, California State University Long Beach

This bibliography focuses on ICT literacy as it is implemented in United States nursing education.   
 

 

GENERAL:


MERLOT LINKS:

Key terms: Health sciences, Nursing, Nursing education, Internal medicine, Note that digital literacy applies to the various tools that nurses use, such as ECG.  Likewise, information literacy applies to nursing vocabulary, analyzing diagnostic data, etc. 

Health Sciences Community: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/HealthSciences.htm

MERLOT Open Education Resources for Nursing http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/csuoern/

LIBGUIDES:

 

OTHER DIGITAL RESOURCES:

ARTICLES:

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES IDEA STARTERS:

  • Ask students to create a timeline of a nursing concept (e.g., theories about pregnancy, disease; training). 
  • Ask students to use GAI visual tools to create an ideal nursing care environment, analyizing the focus of the facility and reasoning for the design. 
  • Ask students to compare nursing practices around the world. 
  • Ask students to research the cultural connotation of nursing in different cultures. 
  • Ask students to research historical or cultural influences of nursing. 
  • Ask students to research intellectual property law (both copyright and patents/trademarks) as it applies to nursing. 
  • Ask students to interview personnel in different jobs affiliated with nursing. 
  • Ask students to compare the same job across different organizations, and within the same organization. Ask students to research career ladders in nursing. 
  • Ask students to research the total cost of a medical procedure, including facilities (e.g., utilities, maintenance), equipment (e.g., selection and purchase, training, maintenance, storage), supplies (e.g., ordering, processing, use, disposal), food (selection and purchase, storage, preparation, dissemination, clean-up and disposal), personnel (e.g., labor, training, scheduling), administration (e.g., insurance, accounting, processing). 
  • Ask students to research the same topic in two database aggregators (e.g., CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE), and compare the process and results. 
  • Ask students to analyze the representation of nursing in movies (see https://www.truthaboutnursing.org/media/films/index.html#gsc.tab=0 and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/inr.12833)
  • Ask students to research the impact of technology on nursing and nursing education. 
  • Ask students to create an infographic about a nursing topic. 
  • Ask students to create a public service announcement that is related to a nursing topic (e.g., health practice, baby care, stroke identification). 
  • Ask students to create a virtual museum exhibit about an aspect of nursing. 
  • Ask students to create a graphic novel about some aspect of nursing, such as patient-nursing relationships. 
  • Ask students to research how nursing has impacted wars. 
  • Ask students to investigate the impact of nursing in U.S. history using primary sources (e.g., the Library of Congress’s American Memory collections: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html)
  • Ask students to research the impact (social, economic, environmental) of some nursing practice. 
  • Ask students to take photos of a nursing concept, and annotate them in terms of locale, evidence of the concept, and implications.