Seamless teaching and learning of informatics and health information technology competencies found in Domain 8 using a case study approach

Authors:   Kulhanek, B., Wilson, M., Kunkel, D., & Freeman, R.

Abstract:   Failure to address informatics and health information technology competencies impacts the Four Spheres of Care, Systems Based Practice, and Evidence Based Practice.  Nursing education is dense with concepts and skill-sets of many kinds and thus integrating these Domain 8 competencies will foster seamless learning and the clinical reasoning and leadership that must take place to be a competent beginning professional nurse upon graduation. Informatics and health information technology competencies found in Domain 8 can be threaded through all aspects of nursing education to foster competent nursing practice for the complexity of 21st century healthcare.