Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Lyn Losty

Abstract

Due to the recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, rapid technological innovation and nursing practice transformation exposed a deepening divide in the knowledge and awareness of information and communication technologies (ICT) among nurses. This technological skills gap undermines the benefits of ICT to nursing practice such as increased nurse satisfaction, improved care quality, and reduced costs. Nurse leaders are positioned to promote the use of ICT among nurses but may suffer from the same knowledge deficit of ICT as their followers. Guided by Locsin’s technological competencies as caring in nursing theory, Staggers and Parks’ nurse-computer interaction framework, and Covell’s nursing intellectual capital theory, this DNP scholarly project was conducted to determine if an educational intervention focused on ICT increases knowledge and awareness among nurse leaders in a federal clinical research hospital. Twenty-eight (N = 28) voluntary participants completed a pretest and posttest on the content of a virtual group learning session about ICT and nursing practice. Using a Wilcoxon Signed Rank test to estimate data measuring learning, an increase in knowledge of ICT (z = -4.72, p < 0.001), an increase in awareness of the benefits of ICT to nursing practice (z = -3.50, p < 0.001), and an increase in awareness of the role of nurse leaders to promote ICT (z = -3.57, p < 0.001) were indicated. This project contributes to positive social change by increasing the knowledge and awareness of ICT among nurse leaders, thereby, narrowing the technological skills gap in the nursing workforce and paving the way for increased nurse satisfaction, improved care quality, and reduced costs.

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