A Study on Information Technology Education and Developmentof CAI for Nursing Students

本研究的目的是调查日本学生护理信息学教育的现状和问题，重新考虑学生基础护理信息学教育的指导方针和框架，并在此基础上开发新的信息技术教育体系。为此，于2002年在全国范围内对护理信息学课程设置、师资队伍、设备配备、护理信息学课程设置、护理信息学教育意识等进行了问卷调查。研究对象为日本1，046所护理学校，回答率为40.2%。调查显示，90.7%的学校为护理专业学生提供了信息学课程，82.9%的学校有自己的计算机教学系统。然而，只有13.1%的人使用计算机辅助教学（CAI）和4.0%的远程教育课程的教学护理。因此，护理信息学已被认为是日本护理实践的必要条件。然而，对学生的护理信息学教育尚未得到充分重视。应建立护理信息学教育专项，并进一步开展工作。作为一个试点研究，计算机辅助教学社区护理实践的发展。为研究该CAI课件的教学效果，选择护理专业学生进行实验。结果显示，此多媒体辅助教学系统对社区护理教学有一定的实用价值。在此基础上，我们对护理信息学教育的框架和内容进行了探讨，并于2004年出版了新的护理信息学教材。

The purpose of this study is to investigate the actual state and issues of nursing informatics education for the students in Japan, to reconsider a guideline and a framework of basic nursing informatics education for students, and to develop an educational system with new information technology based on these findings. For this purpose, a nation-wide survey was carried out on the course works, teaching faculty, equipments, programs of informatics for nursing students, and consciousness of nursing informatics education by questionnaires in 2002. Its subjects were 1,046 nursing schools in Japan and the response rate of the subjects was 40.2%. This survey revealed that 90.7% of the respondent schools provided their nursing students with the course works of informatics, and 82.9% had their own computer education systems. However only 13.1% used computer assisted instruction (CAI) and 4.0% had distance-education programs for teaching nursing. Therefore nursing informatics had been recognized as a necessity for the nursing practice in Japan. however nursing informatics education for the students had not been sufficiently addressed. Some special projects to promote nursing informatics education should be established and further work needs to be done. As a pilot study, a computer assisted instruction for community nursing practice was developed. To study educational effect of this CAI nursing students were selected. As a result, it was found that this CAI was useful for teaching community nursing. Based on these findings, We discussed the framework and content of nursing informatics education, and published a new textbook of informatics for nursing students in 2004.