Nursing IT Social Enterprise

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Nursing IT Social Enterprise

• Anne Nortcliffe
• Peter Cogill
• Elaine Stringer

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Nursing IT
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Nursing IT - Aims

• Manage, Deliver Resolve
• Weaknesses in
• Core employability skills in IT students and
• Lack of confidence in professional IT skills in
  nursing students
• Symbiotic venture

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IT Literacy Confidence

• Peer assisted learning
• Recipient of IT learning and
• provider of robust feedback on employability
  skills
• Facilitator of IT learning
• manager and deliverer of professional IT skills

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Audience Participation Survey

• Identify IT literacy and IT confidence of your
  students
• And their ability to transfer knowledge to
  provide a peer-assisted learning either as
• recipient of IT learning and provider of robust
  feedback on employability skills
• facilitator of IT learning manager and deliverer
  of professional IT skills

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Audience Discussion

• What are common key barriers?
• What are the common key drivers?
• What are the performance indicators?
• How do we ensure student engagement?
• Have you arrived at a consensus?

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Our Experience

• Key drivers Barriers
• Student Management Operation of the Enterprise
• Who, Who, Who
• When, When, When
• Location, Location, Location
• Student attendance
• Deliverers Recipients
• Registration and Learners Records

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Strategy

• 2nd year IT students organise support for Nursing
  students.
• 2nd years employ 1st year students to provide the
  support.
• Service based on IT skills
• Service operated on 2 hours / day
• Additional to university support
• Students will prefer peer support
• Publicise to Student Nurses

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Semester 1 Implementation

• 2 Groups Monday Tuesday 12 2pm
• Started November
• Located in HWB reception area - Cold
• Initial wireless connectivity issues
• IT and nursing students sporadic in attendance
• IT students lost motivation

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Developments for Semester 2

• Fixed location IT lab, F344, downstairs,
  secluded, incorrectly named
• Collaboration - Cross Faculty Staff and students
• Improved Marketing
• Flyers to new students
• Posters TV screens
• Improved records feedback (2 way)
• IT students need more academic facilitation

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Implementation

• Operation of Service Desk 4 hours / week
• Record all student contact
• Nurses record feed back for IT students
• Weekly Reports to Management
• Surveyed the Nurses
• Who knew about Nursing IT support?
• How good / useful was the service?

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Lessons Learnt

• Survey for Initial analysis of nursing student IT
  skills
• Need for more publicity
• Fixed roller posters
• Flyers student with induction packs
• Repeated information on Blackboard
• Screen savers and plasma screens
• Keep same Time Day
• Offer personal IT support service, bespoke to
  support individual skills deficiencies
• Closer management of IT students
• Level 5 students to manage Level 4 students more
  closely
• Level 5 students to report regularly progress to
  academics
• Embedding within Nurses Level 4 Curriculum
• analysis IT deficiencies
• act to remedy deficiencies through using Nursing
  IT
• use Nursing IT to further develop autonomous IT
  skills
• demonstrate development of IT skills through an
  assignment

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Audience Conclusion

• How could apply this approach or develop What is
  a similar pathway to promote peer-assisted skills
  learning at your institution?
• Developing
• employability skills in IT students
• IT literacy in your students
• Post-it notes answers please