21st Century Nurse Educator

Nursing Education is going through a dramatic change. The purpose of this blog is to share some aspects of that change.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Selecting the best information


Nursing education is changing. Evolving technology, shifts in practice settings, and diverse student populations are placing new demands on the enterprise. Access to data is increasingly available, unlimited, and unprecedented. Nurse educators must look at an enormous amount of information and determine what is prime, choice, select or standard grade. Large areas of information can be divided, accessed and disseminated in smaller portions suitable across a wide range of clinical applications. Information now moves in all directions. No longer is there a top-to-bottom approach to learning.
Nurses require a new kind of know-how when it comes to knowledge transfer. Studies show that learning is most successful when it is relevant, collaborative, continuous and outcome-based. In nursing education Blogs are becomming learning tools.

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