Following the recent release of the national digital health skills and training plan,\u00a0Australia\u2019s largest healthcare workforce of more than 400,000 nurses and midwives can now assess their digital health knowledge and skills against a new professional development framework.
\nDeveloped by nurses and midwives, the National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Capability Framework outlines the core digital health skills and knowledge required for professional practice in the digital era covering patient care, leadership, advocacy, education and research.
\nAs frontline healthcare professionals, nurses and midwives are playing a leading role in Australia\u2019s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
\nEvery Australian has benefited from the commitment and leadership of nurses and midwives.
\nNurses and midwives have long been using technology to care for their patients. The first of its kind in Australia, the framework highlights the specific skills and capabilities necessary to deliver contemporary care.
\nIn 2020, International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the focus is on empowering nurses and midwives to lead the digital transformation of the health system, and it is expected the framework will be used as a resource to guide individuals, employers and educators in their workforce and professional development planning.
\nThe framework focuses on digital professionalism; leadership and advocacy; data and information quality; information-enabled care; and technology.
\nThe framework was a collaboration by the Australian Digital Health Agency and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, in association with:<\/p>\n
This announcement follows my announcement in September of the\u00a0National Digital Health Workforce and Education Roadmap<\/a>\u00a0to help the Australian health workforce use technology and further drive the digital transformation of health services to meet community demand. Following the recent release of the national digital health skills and training plan,\u00a0Australia\u2019s largest healthcare workforce of more than 400,000 nurses and midwives can now assess their digital health knowledge and skills against a new professional development framework. Developed by nurses and midwives, the National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Capability Framework outlines the core … Continue reading “Nurses and midwives lead healthcare digital transformation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo access the National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Capability Framework please visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.digitalhealth.gov.au\/about-the-agency\/workforce-and-education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"