Abstract:

Computer and information literacy in the field of the nursing profession is an essential prerequisite for the efficiency and effectiveness of the work of nurses and technicians. Thanks to computer and information literacy, nurses and technicians better manage their own time. They reduce the time spent in administrative work and thus free up more time for health care. In order to do that, they need to be adequately educated. The aim of this paper is to determine the situation in the education of nurses/technicians in the field of information and information literacy. The hypotheses that were sought to confirm are: the analysis of available curriculum of regular education of nurses of different levels of education indicates the lack of certain current knowledge, skills and competencies in the field of computer literacy. In the process of confirming the hypotheses, the European guidelines for the regulated profession of nursing, the national guidelines of the Republic of Croatia for secondary and higher schools and the specific curriculum of four secondary, college and high medical schools were analyzed. Following the analysis, EU guidelines, national guidelines and specific curriculum were correlated. After that, the education in the field of the nursing profession in the Republic of Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, and Germany was compared. Finally, the necessary improvements in the process of education of nurses/technicians in the Republic of Croatia will be pointed out.

Keywords:

Computer literacy, curriculum, education, guidelines, information literacy.