Digital Skills in Healthcare Practice
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The healthcare industry is rapidly evolving in tandem with a demand for increased flexibility in the delivery of education in our fast-paced society. As a result, the passive reception of content by students, delivered by an expert from the front of the class, is becoming increasingly redundant. Students are now being taught, ubiquitous connectivity allowing widespread access to online materials (Collier, Gray, & Ahn, 2011). Programs such as nursing are often offered in an external, online delivery mode (Wright, 2013). Due to an increasingly aging population, healthcare is by far one of the fastest-growing industries, and graduate job seekers choosing to enter healthcare, will need to ensure they have developed sound digital literacies, particularly as they apply to professional communication. It is imperative that students develop and leverage emerging communication technologies as part of their portfolio prior to seeking employment (Clark, 2009; Hargittai & Litt, 2013).
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42 - Health sciences::4203 - Health services and systems::420302 - Digital health
46 - Information and computing sciences::4601 - Applied computing::460102 - Applications in health
46 - Information and computing sciences::4609 - Information systems::460906 - Information systems education
42 - Health sciences::4203 - Health services and systems::420311 - Health systems
46 - Information and computing sciences::4601 - Applied computing