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

本研究旨在调查日本学生护理资讯教育的现状及存在的问题，重新思考基础护理资讯教育的指导思想与架构，并在此基础上发展新的资讯科技教育体系。为此，于2002年在全国范围内对护生信息学课程设置、师资队伍、设备、课程设置、护理信息化教育意识等进行了问卷调查。调查对象为日本1046所护理学校，应答率为40.2%。调查显示，90.7%的学校为护生提供了信息学课程，82.9%的学校有自己的计算机教育系统。但只有13.1%的学生使用计算机辅助教学(CAI)，4.0%的学生有远程教育项目用于护理教学。因此，护理信息学已被认为是日本护理实践的必需品。然而，对学生进行护理信息学教育却没有得到足够的重视。应建立护理信息化教育专项项目，进一步做好护理信息化教育工作。作为一项试点研究，开发了社区护理实践的计算机辅助教学。为探讨该计算机辅助教学的教育效果，以护理专业学生为研究对象。结果表明，该计算机辅助教学系统在社区护理教学中具有一定的实用价值。在此基础上，对护理信息学教育的框架和内容进行了探讨，并于2004年出版了新的护生信息学教材。

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.