Nursing IT: A Peer Assisted Learning Project for Nursing and IT Students

Overview

The key focus of this symbiotic project is to improve the employability and professional skills of our students in HWB and ACES. The project aims to develop skills in both sets of students; Nursing students from Faculty of HWB and Computing students from Faculty of ACES. In particular to;

The key focus of this symbiotic project is to improve the employability and professional skills of our students in HWB and ACES. Nursing students will develop skills in digital fluency, particularly their computing technology skills, ability to search literature, and overall IT competence and confidence, whilst the computing students, will have the opportunity to develop their employability skills, through engagement in a venture opportunity.

The project objectives are to;

develop, and implement a sustainable peer-assisted learning framework that benefits both sets of students and will continue beyond duration of CPLA of the project.
develop and implement a mechanism that enables both sets of students to identify and evaluate their skill sets deficiencies and strategies for improvement
provide a learning opportunity for both sets of students through peer-assisted learning and to the mutual benefit of all stakeholders
provide opportunity for computing students to apply their technical skills to support non-technical students and to develop their behaviour, attitude and interpersonal skills
provide opportunity for nursing students to develop practical IT technical skills, self awareness, IT competence, confidence and apply their nurturing skills to support computing students personal skills development
increase student learning autonomy of each of these groups of students in skills learning and development.

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