Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’

Wild, Deidre; Kydd, Angela

Abstract

This article describes digital skills training (DST) for staff and later, residents, as part of a programme of culture change in a large care home with nursing in Glasgow. It presents the successes and challenges arising from DST from the perspectives of the two volunteer information technology (IT) champions (Thomas Sloan and John Thomson), who were also staff members. Using their written reports, questionnaires and subsequent conversations, the IT champions recall the challenges and gains for staff and residents as a result of their initial training. This is supplemented by a follow-up on IT activities in the 18 months after the introduction period.

Citation

Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016). Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’. Nursing Older People, 28(5), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.28.5.31.s26

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 4, 2015
• Publication Date: May 27, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 12, 2016
• Journal: Nursing Older People
• Print ISSN: 1472-0795
• Electronic ISSN: 2047-8941
• Publisher: RCN Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 31-36
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.28.5.31.s26
• Keywords: care home, champions, digital skills training, information technology, older people
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/403236