Nursing IT Social Enterprise

Anne Nortcliffe

Peter Cogill

Elaine Stringer

Nursing IT

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Nursing IT - Aims

• Manage, Deliver & Resolve • Weaknesses in

– Core employability skills in IT students and – Lack of confidence in professional IT skills in nursing

students

• Symbiotic venture

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IT Literacy & Confidence

• Peer assisted learning– Recipient of IT learning and

• provider of robust feedback on employability skills

– Facilitator of IT learning; • manager and deliverer of professional IT skills

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Audience Participation Survey

• Identify IT literacy and IT confidence of your students

• And their ability to transfer knowledge to provide a peer-assisted learning either as;– recipient of IT learning and provider of robust

feedback on employability skills– facilitator of IT learning; manager and deliverer of

professional IT skills

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Audience Discussion

• What are common key barriers?

• What are the common key drivers?

• What are the performance indicators?

• How do we ensure student engagement?

• Have you arrived at a consensus?

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Our Experience

Key drivers & Barriers

– Student Management & Operation of the Enterprise

– Who, Who, Who

– When, When, When

– Location, Location, Location

– Student attendance

• Deliverers & Recipients

• Registration and Learners RecordsSheffield Hallam University

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Strategy

• 2nd year IT students organise support for Nursing students.

• 2nd years employ 1st year students to provide the support.

• Service based on IT skills• Service operated on 2 hours / day• Additional to university support

– Students will prefer peer support

• Publicise to Student Nurses

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Semester 1 Implementation

• 2 Groups – Monday & Tuesday 12 – 2pm• Started November• Located in HWB reception area - Cold• Initial wireless connectivity issues• IT and nursing students sporadic in attendance• IT students lost motivation

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Developments for Semester 2

• Fixed location – IT lab, F344, downstairs, secluded, incorrectly named

• Collaboration - Cross Faculty Staff and students• Improved Marketing

– Flyers to new students– Posters & TV screens

• Improved records & feedback (2 way)• IT students need more academic facilitation

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Implementation

• Operation of Service Desk – 4 hours / week– Record all student contact

• Nurses record feed back for IT students• Weekly Reports to “Management”• Surveyed the Nurses;

– Who knew about Nursing IT support?– How good / useful was the service?

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Lessons Learnt• Survey for Initial analysis of nursing student IT skills

– Need for more publicity• Fixed roller posters• Flyers student with induction packs• Repeated information on Blackboard• Screen savers and plasma screens

– Keep same Time & Day– Offer personal IT support service, bespoke to support individual skills deficiencies

• Closer management of IT students– Level 5 students to manage Level 4 students more closely– Level 5 students to report regularly progress to academics

• Embedding within Nurses Level 4 Curriculum– analysis IT deficiencies– act to remedy deficiencies through using Nursing IT– use Nursing IT to further develop autonomous IT skills– demonstrate development of IT skills through an assignment

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Audience Conclusion

How could apply this approach or develop What is a similar pathway to promote peer-assisted skills learning at your institution?

Developing;• employability skills in IT students• IT literacy in your students

• Post-it notes answers please

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