Harerimana, Alexis, Wicking, Kristin, Biedermann, Narelle, and Yates, Karen (2025) Click, care, connect: incorporating nursing informatics into undergraduate nursing curricula. Informatics for Health and Social Care. (In Press)

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Abstract

Nursing informatics is a driving force for the transformation of healthcare systems. Developing a digitally literate nursing workforce has become mandatory in many universities around the world. This study analyzed how nursing informatics was integrated into undergraduate nursing curricula in Australia and South Africa. A holistic multiple case study approach guided this study. Categorical aggregation of the data from four cases revealed that nursing informatics was conceptualized as clinical data, health information and digitalized nursing profession. Nursing informatics was a requirement for nursing programme accreditation in Australian cases. Across four cases, eight nursing informatics competencies were identified: computer literacy, information literacy, digital communication literacy, digital health literacy, data security and privacy literacy, clinical judgment skills, leadership skills in digital health, and adaptive expertise in technology advancement. Although several efforts have been made to prepare students for nursing informatics in Australia and South Africa, there is a significant gap between the two countries, and the lack of clearly defined nursing informatics competencies and guidelines to develop and teach informatics content were highlighted as hindrances. Thus, developing tools to guide the integration of nursing informatics is recommended.

Item ID:	89725
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1753-8165
Keywords:	case study; competencies; curriculum; nursing informatics; undergraduate nursing students
Copyright Information:	© 2025 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2026 23:50
FoR Codes:	42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4203 Health services and systems > 420302 Digital health @ 40% 39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390110 Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy @ 40% 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4205 Nursing > 420505 Nursing workforce @ 20%
SEO Codes:	20 HEALTH > 2003 Provision of health and support services > 200307 Nursing @ 30% 16 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 1603 Teaching and curriculum > 160399 Teaching and curriculum not elsewhere classified @ 40% 22 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES > 2204 Information systems, technologies and services > 220499 Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified @ 30%
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