Abstract
Background
In their digital health capability framework, the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director outlined the vital role that nurses and midwives will play in advocating, planning and implementing digital health. Similarly, the Department of Health Report of the Expert Body on Nursing and Midwifery identifies that nurses and midwives are among the crucial elements in the understanding, development and demonstration of digital technology in clinical practice. Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANP’s) can lead by using their unique strategic operational position to actualise, adopt, integrate, champion and drive digital technologies in clinical practice.
Purpose
To discuss the lived experience of two Advanced Nurse Practitioners in driving digital transformation in healthcare and map an evolving skillset.
Discussion
Digital technologies can be utilised in several ways such as capturing digital data to improve health research, joining up provision between services and improving patients' self-management of conditions to influence health outcomes. Paradoxically, despite the noted advantages and recent impetus of digital technology in clinical practice, the actualising, implementation and integration remains stagnant. There are six core competencies of Advanced Nursing Practice in Ireland; Professional Values and Conduct, Management and Team Competence, Clinical-Decision Making, Knowledge and Cognitive Competence, Communication and Interpersonal Competence and Leadership and Professional Scholarship. Lockwood describes four themes in relation to ANP clinical autonomy- “stepping up”, “living it”, “bounce-back ability” and “setting in motion”, we have used these themes to guide our discussion and reflection.
We acknowledge both the importance and relevance of the six core competencies of Advanced Nursing Practice in this project however, we propose that based on our experience and learning that fundamental to the adoption of digital health in clinical practice it is imperative that ANP’s develop a further skillset which encompasses digital expertise, foresight, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Conclusion
There is limited reference to the academic preparation required within the current ANP education programme to adopt and integrate digital technology in clinical practice.
To prepare candidates to actualise, adopt, integrate, champion and drive digital health in clinical practice we propose the integration of the identified digital health skillset as competencies in post-graduate advanced nurse practice education curriculum.
In their digital health capability framework, the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director outlined the vital role that nurses and midwives will play in advocating, planning and implementing digital health. Similarly, the Department of Health Report of the Expert Body on Nursing and Midwifery identifies that nurses and midwives are among the crucial elements in the understanding, development and demonstration of digital technology in clinical practice. Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANP’s) can lead by using their unique strategic operational position to actualise, adopt, integrate, champion and drive digital technologies in clinical practice.
Purpose
To discuss the lived experience of two Advanced Nurse Practitioners in driving digital transformation in healthcare and map an evolving skillset.
Discussion
Digital technologies can be utilised in several ways such as capturing digital data to improve health research, joining up provision between services and improving patients' self-management of conditions to influence health outcomes. Paradoxically, despite the noted advantages and recent impetus of digital technology in clinical practice, the actualising, implementation and integration remains stagnant. There are six core competencies of Advanced Nursing Practice in Ireland; Professional Values and Conduct, Management and Team Competence, Clinical-Decision Making, Knowledge and Cognitive Competence, Communication and Interpersonal Competence and Leadership and Professional Scholarship. Lockwood describes four themes in relation to ANP clinical autonomy- “stepping up”, “living it”, “bounce-back ability” and “setting in motion”, we have used these themes to guide our discussion and reflection.
We acknowledge both the importance and relevance of the six core competencies of Advanced Nursing Practice in this project however, we propose that based on our experience and learning that fundamental to the adoption of digital health in clinical practice it is imperative that ANP’s develop a further skillset which encompasses digital expertise, foresight, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Conclusion
There is limited reference to the academic preparation required within the current ANP education programme to adopt and integrate digital technology in clinical practice.
To prepare candidates to actualise, adopt, integrate, champion and drive digital health in clinical practice we propose the integration of the identified digital health skillset as competencies in post-graduate advanced nurse practice education curriculum.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
|---|---|
| Publication status | Unpublished - 07 Mar 2024 |
| Event | Trinity Health and Education Conference - Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 05 Mar 2024 → 07 Mar 2024 |
Conference
| Conference | Trinity Health and Education Conference |
|---|---|
| Country/Territory | Ireland |
| City | Dublin |
| Period | 05/03/2024 → 07/03/2024 |