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Nursing is the largest workforce in health care with nurses increasingly required to work with digital health technologies. However, despite the adoption of nursing informatics in Australia in the mid-1980s, nursing graduates are not being adequately equipped to use these technologies in a way that benefits the profession and improves patient care. Using a scoping review approach, this paper presents an analysis of contemporary published literature and describes the barriers to faculty engagement with digital health technologies in undergraduate nursing education. Thirty five articles were included and identified faculty lack of understanding of nursing informatics and resistance to technologies, limited infrastructure and expenditure, and limited educational resources and best practice recommendations as significant barriers to the integration of nursing informatics into undergraduate nursing curricula. Recommendations for faculty development will be explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The lack of professional commitment and development has become a significant causative factor for nurses increasing turnover rateand shortage of nurses. In view of the increasing numbers of hospital and community hospital services over the next few years, shortage of nurseswill become a serious challenge to the effectiveness of any healthcare system. One way to improve the professional development and reduce turn over is through effective clinical supervision. Clinical supervision traditionally started from western countries, providing nurses with professional development and career progression. Furthermore, clinical supervision when performed properly would be able to resolve some of the job base issue faced by nurses. The implementation of clinical supervision would increase the support given to the nurses and provide career development. Aim:The aimof thispaper is to reviewthe currentmeasures for professional development of nurses in Singapore hospital and to discuss the possible implementation of clinical supervision in Singapore healthcare setting. Design: A literature search using five databases ('EBSCOhost MEDLINE with full text', 'PUBMED', 'Ovid', 'EBSCOhost CINAHL Plus' and 'Cochrane Library')was conducted. The searchwas limitedto theuse of 'full text' and articles within the timeframe of 10 years. Using keywords 'clinical supervisor', 'clinical supervision', a total of 64 articles were generated. Of these 63 articles, 9 articleswere identified out. These paperswere appraised using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) tools checklist. Results: The majority of studies reported a deficiency in nurses' knowledge towards the concept of clinical supervision. On top of that, time has been found to be a barrier affecting the implementation of clinical supervision. It is argued that due to the lack of time, supervision is not carried out regularly. Thus, causing ineffectiveness to the implementation of clinical supervision. Support from the managerial level is found to be indispensable in the success of implementing clinical supervision. Non of the papers identified were from Asian countries, indicating the lack of implementation of clinical supervision in Asian countries like Singapore. Conclusions: Nurses professional commitment and development in Singapore were found to be inadequate. Within the role of nursing clinical supervision, professional and career development has been identified as the key value of improving clinical practice. The implementation of clinical supervision effectively enhances retention of nurses and further leads to a positive benefit of reducing emotional burden of practicing nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Clinical nursing education is a major part of any undergraduate programme aimed at preparing nurses for competent professional practice. However research most often evaluated specific clinical education models; few studies compared models and little attention has been given to its effect on student learning outcomes. The purpose of this review was to examine the effectiveness of clinical education models for undergraduate nursing programs. Method: This systematic review utilised the Joanna Briggs Institute systematic review approach. A web-based literature search was performed to identify original research articles published from2002 to 2016 using a three-step search strategy. All papers selected for retrieval were assessed by at least two independent reviewers for inclusion criteria, methodological validity prior to inclusion, and data extraction in the review. A comprehensive search using all identified keywords and index terms was undertaken in major databases. Results: This review included nine studies including two pre-posttest studies with a control group totalling 1893 participants including 1286 nursing students. Conclusion: The evidence regarding the effectiveness of clinical education models for undergraduate nursing programs is notably weak; however this review found limited evidence that the clinical facilitator model is preferable to the preceptor model and Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) model provided greater engagement and an enhanced learning environment compared with standard facilitationmodel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chronic pain is common and disabling. Researchers need robust methods to collect pain data in large populations to enhance knowledge on pain prevalence, causes and treatment. Digital pain manikins address this by enabling self-reporting of location-specific pain. However, it is unknown to what extent pain studies adopted digital manikins for data collection. Therefore, we systematically searched the literature. We included 17 studies. Most were published after 2017, collected pain data cross-sectionally in ≥50 participants, and reported pain distribution and pain extent as manikin-derived summary metrics. Across the studies, 13 unique manikins were used, of which four had been evaluated. Our review shows that adoption of digital pain manikins in research settings has been slow. Harnessing the digital nature of manikins, enabling use of personal devices, and assessing and improving the reliability, validity and responsiveness of digital manikins will expedite their adoption as digital data collection tools for pain research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Clinical dashboards are an emerging and fast-evolving technology used to support frontline clinicians' practice. Understanding end users' perceived engagement with clinical dashboards is essential to co-design, implementation, and adoption. There is a lack of literature exploring the integration of dashboards into clinical workflow. This rapid review explores clinical end users' perceived engagement with dashboards that support workflow. We conducted a literature search in PubMed and CINAHL. Four articles met our eligibility criteria. Findings reveal variations in taxonomy and measures used to evaluate clinicians' perceived engagement. There are also a variety of reported barriers and facilitators to adoption. Standardized frameworks and vocabulary are needed to facilitate a common understanding of clinical end users' perceived engagement with dashboards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can enhance the safety and quality of patient care, but their benefits are often hampered by low acceptance and use by clinicians in practice. Existing research has explored clinicians' experiences with CDSS in a static nature, with limited consideration of how user needs may change over time. This review aimed to identify the methods used to capture clinicians' acceptance and use of CDSS in hospital settings at different time points following implementation and highlight gaps to inform future work. Seventy-six studies met inclusion criteria. Qualitative methods were rarely used during the early implementation phases, particularly in the first 2 months following implementation. Further work is needed to understand clinicians' experiences immediately following implementation of CDSS and how these insights can be used to support use over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]