ABSTRACT
Introduction With the rapid integration of IT in the healthcare fi eld, equipping faculty with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively teach others how to use the technology is imperative. As demand for the EHR and other supporting technologies considered essential tools in the delivery of healthcare continues to grow, nursing faculty need to become profi cient at integrating these technologies into their teaching practices. Also, the advancement of informatics and other technologies in nursing education and practice is crucial to meeting the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) recommendations for health professional education.1 Nevertheless, of all the challenges facing health professional education today, perhaps the most diffi cult is the integration of the EHR technologies into academics. Today, for a variety of reasons presented in this chapter, relatively few nursing schools have incorporated these technologies in their curriculum.2 This chapter describes the current state on levels of informatics in nursing curriculum and critiques faculty’s and administrators’ understanding of informatics differentiated from computer and information literacy skills. Against this critical review, this chapter describes a specifi c program that targets faculty development initiatives to increase informatics and other technology-related competencies that will transform nursing education.
