STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS & EXPECTATIONS REGARDING DIVERSE TECHNOLOGY BASED NURSING EDUCATION

Abstract

Introduction: Technological innovations are changing the face of nursing education, with teachers being expected to integrate best teaching practices in the classroom and to ensure that nursing students are motivated and engaged. Objective: “Students perceptions & expectations regarding diverse technology based nursing education at New Advance College of Nursing, Lahore”. Materials & methods: It was descriptive cross-sectional study in nature in which 150 nursing students of Post RN BSN appeared and out of which 109 meet the criterion of the research work and considered for the study. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data from the participants.  Results: As 109 nursing students included in the study having age range 18 years to 26 years with mean age of the participants X̅= 22.22 years old; Standard deviation= ± 2.3. In the current study 92.66% participants reported that nursing instructors must use technology to make connections to the learning material whereas 6.42% said rarely and only 0.92% disagreed with the statement.Overall, result findings showed that 67.89% nursing students having high level of expectations to use diverse technology for academic purpose and only 32.11% determined low level of expectations. Conclusion: Consequently, result findings showed nursing students having good perception and high level of expectations to use diverse technology for academic purpose. Nursing students expected that basic ICT literacy is also possible with digital devices and by using multiple electronic softwares and multimedia to deliver knowledge and information among nursing students so that they may understand lectured effectively and efficiently.