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. 2022 Oct;28(4):343-354.
doi: 10.4258/hir.2022.28.4.343. Epub 2022 Oct 31.

Development of a Standardized Curriculum for Nursing Informatics in Korea

Myonghwa Park  1 , Bonkhe Brian Dlamini  1 , Jahyeon Kim  1 , Min-Jung Kwak  1 , Insook Cho  2 , Mona Choi  3 , Jisan Lee  4 , Yul Ha Min  5 , Bu Kyung Park  6 , Seonah Lee  7
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Development of a Standardized Curriculum for Nursing Informatics in Korea

Myonghwa Park et al. Healthc Inform Res. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Objectives: This study explored the current status of nursing informatics education in South Korea and developed a standardized curriculum for it.

Methods: Data were collected in two stages: first, an online survey conducted from December 2020 to February 2021 among 60 nursing schools to analyze the current status of nursing informatics education; and second, a two-round Delphi survey with 15 experts from March to April 2021 to determine the mean and standard deviation of the demand for each learning objective in nursing informatics education. A standardized curriculum proposal was developed based on the results of the two-round Delphi survey.

Results: Nursing informatics was most commonly taught in the fourth year (34%), with two credits. The proportion of elective major subjects was high in undergraduate and graduate programs (77.4% and 78.6%, respectively), while the proportion of nursing informatics majors was low (21.4%). The curriculum developed included topics such as nursing information system-related concepts, definitions and components of healthcare information systems, electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, mobile technology and health management, medical information standards, personal information protection and ethics, understanding of big data, use of information technology in evidence-based practice, use of information in community nursing, genome information usage, artificial intelligence clinical information systems, administrative management systems, and information technology nursing education.

Conclusions: Nursing informatics professors should receive ongoing training to obtain recent medical information. Further review and modification of the nursing informatics curriculum should be performed to ensure that it remains up-to-date with recent developments.

Keywords: Curriculum; Education; Health Information Systems; Nursing Informatics; Nursing Schools.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest

Mona Choi is an editorial member of Healthcare Informatics Research; however, she did not involve in the peer reviewer selection, evaluation, and decision process of this article. Otherwise, no potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

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Figure 1
Types of Delphi surveys and descriptions thereof. Adapted from Varndell et al. Int Emerg Nurs 2021;56:100867 [16].
Figure 2
Figure 2
Procedure for developing a standardized nursing informatics curriculum. NI: nursing informatics, SD: standard deviation.
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