The evaluation of using road-map guided Excel VBA training to promote nursing informatics in Taiwan
Hou, I.-C.; Liu, C.-W.; Hsu, C.-L.; Chang, P.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 146: 253-257
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 19592844 Document Number: 632974
In Taiwan nursing informatics is taking off. It is therefore strategically important to educate our nurses what nursing informatics is in a short time. We used a method of road-map guided Excel VBA to educate our nurses how to cope with their informatics needs. An eight-day training program based on this concept was implemented in the one regional hospital and a survey was done at the end of the program to evaluate the participants' perception of the training program. The results show very high acceptance and positive outcomes. We suggest that the method of road-map guided Excel VBA might be a promising strategy to promote nursing informatics internationally Taiwan.