Professional Experience Placement

This article by Mather and Cummings (2015) was recently published in in a special issue about eHealth literacy: Emergence of a new concept for creating, evaluating and understanding online health resources for the public in Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal. It describes using a triad model to support the development of eHealth literacy by nurses with consumers at point of care.  A use case scenario is used to demonstrate the use of the model. This paper outlines the systems level considerations for understanding health  and ehealth literacy in Australia; human context considerations especially, health professions, nurses and patients; digital technology considerations for promoting ehealth literacy in healthcare environments such as ubiquitous computing and mobile learning.

The paper also discusses the nexus of digital technology and learning and teaching for promoting ehealth literacy and demonstrates how it can be used by clinical supervisors with students and patients.  A use case scenario provides an example of how mobile learning can be used to promote health and ehealth literacy at point of care using the triad model of patient, nurse supervisor and patient described in the paper. The authors conclude by stating this new form of learning and teaching is an opportunity that can be  accessed and harnessed for learning in real-time at point of care to enable transformation of the nurse-patient relationship.

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