Relationship of Nurses’ ICT Skills, Computer Anxiety, and Clinical Nursing Competency and the Effect on Them of Using Electronic Teaching Material
2019 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 37-45
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2019 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 37-45
Nursing is said to be an information-dependent profession. In order to provide good quality nursing, it is necessary to acquire the ability to learn to operate ICT equipment, identify appropriate information, and use that information. However, nurses’ relative lack of information education and their fear, anxiety, and other negative emotional reactions to computers arising from their lack of computer literacy are likely to lead to a lack of interest in computers.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between ICT skills, computer anxiety, and clinical nursing competency among first-year nursing staff at a university hospital. It was found that the higher the ICT skills, the lower the computer anxiety and the higher the clinical nursing competency (p <.001). It was suggested that information education including ICT skills is effective in reducing computer anxiety and may lead to improvement in clinical nursing competency.
