Emerging Technologies in Nurse Education 2010

Changes in health care management are requiring nurses to become more technically competent in their clinical practice. This, combined with teaching net generation students, has challenged faculty to include technology into nursing education curriculum as their budgets and technical skills allow.

The tools to support nurse education change rapidly with new ones constantly surfacing. This has created a double mandate to expedite quality and consistency in the delivery of our nurse education curricula: Bring ourselves up-to-speed with these technical skills while we maintain our awareness of available technical products.

For Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Educators