Synopsis

Leading nurses through digital transformation

Digital health is expanding, driven by strategic imperatives for improving the health system, and nurses, as key stakeholders in healthcare, need to be able to fully participate in digital health. Nursing leadership, therefore, plays a key role in supporting the nursing workforce to develop skills to fully engage with digital health. 

This presentation will describe an integrative literature review that synthesises and evaluates the research identifying the ways nurse leaders develop digital capability in the nursing workforce. Specifically, the research question this study addressed was, “How do nursing leaders enable hospital nurses to adopt and use digital health technology?”

This presentation will include a summary and synthesis of the current literature exploring how nursing leaders can enable hospital nurses to embrace and use digital health technology. It outlines strategies that can develop and support the nursing workforce to engage with and adopt digital health tools in practice. 

With the coming health reforms, the digitisation of New Zealand’s healthcare system will gain pace and ensuring that nurse leaders are ready to support nurses, who make up nearly 50% of the healthcare workforce, to be fully engaged in these changes will be key.

Biography

Michelle Honey Masters of Nursing Science (MNSc) Programme Director University of Auckland
Doctor Michelle Honey is a nurse with over 30 years’ experience; over half in nursing education.  She currently works at the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland.  She has been involved with nursing informatics since the early 1990s and holds leadership roles in nursing informatics in New Zealand and internationally.  Michelle was JM’s supervisor as he completed his master’s in nursing.    Go back to workshop speakers summary page		Michelle Honey