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ICT-Based Software as a Supervision Tool in Nursing Students’ Clinical Training

Authors:
Sari Mettiäinen
Anna-Liisa Karjalainen

Keywords: eLearning; mobile application; nursing; clinical training; supervision

Abstract:
The paper describes nursing students’ opinions on how a mobile application and a web-based reporting tool could act as a supervision method during their clinical training. In a Finnish university of applied sciences we selected software called eTaitava to our piloting project. The aim of the project was to find out about the possibility to establish a new supervising method to teaching by using information and communication technology. Lecturers can use this software in supervising and supporting nursing students’ learning process. The empirical study was made by a survey in May 2010. All in all 430 students have used this method and been sent a web-based questionnaire. 112 of them answered the survey, which consisted of 33 questions. According to the findings, two thirds of the students thought that answering almost daily to the questions sent by eTaitava was useful for their learning process, including setting of objectives, daily activities, self-assessment and cognitive reflection. They felt it easy and fast to use by computer, only 9 % used it by mobile phone. The first feedback showed that the information and communication technology-based method is a useful and effective way to supervise learning in nursing education. It is worth developing this idea further.

Pages: 72 to 76

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: March 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4030

ISBN: 978-1-61208-123-6

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 20, 2011 to March 25, 2011