The effect of Personal Digital Assistants in supporting the development of clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing students: a systematic review

Abstract

The knowledge and skills mandate of nurses in the 21st Century have evolved in complexity and depth. Nurses are required to engage in higher cognitive thinking processes for safe and effective practice. The ability to integrate theoretical knowledge as it applies to the individual context of the patient to prevent or amend an adverse event has born testimony to nursings' professional development. A symbiotic relationship exists between nursing theoretical knowledge and nursing practice; however a gap exists in reality for integrating and contextualising nursing knowledge into the clinical environment following graduation from tertiary institutions.

Holistic Digitalization of the Nursing Internship Process in the Federal State of Salzburg with Strong User Involvement

“…In the future and upon implementation, the "internship platform" could also be used to achieve an increasingly common understanding of nursing tasks (between educational institutions and internship providers) by means of linking the catalog of competencies with digital nursing-specific evidence-based databases. Results of the systematic review by Jeffrey and Bourgeois [4] highlight another benefit of this endeavor: The availability of nursing-specific evidence-based resources can increase students' confidence in the often-stressful clinical environment. This is important in today's nursing education where students often fail to maximize the clinical experience due to limited time in direct contact with practice supervisors.…”