I have just found a new blog started June 1 that is on my “must read” list. It’s Work Literacy and is located at http://www.workliteracy.com/. Started by Tony Karrer and Michele Martin, this blog addresses issues of workplace information literacy, obstacles to developing new skills and learning new tools, and methods to encourage change. Two great posts to share:
“In a video presentation at Enterprise 2.0, two of the CIA Intellipedia folks mention a document on their Wiki that was put together by the OSS (precursor to the CIA) which describes how to best sabotage an organization” http://www.workliteracy.com/knowledge-work-sabotage
“…a new kind of illiteracy. And it’s worse, because it’s not a conscious illiteracy. You feel like you can still do your job. But you are slowly falling behind and as time goes by it becomes harder to catch up because you lack the learning skills that are part of this new literacy.” http://www.workliteracy.com/cognitive-age-illiteracy
This falls in quite nicely with the current initiatives in nursing to increase informatics literacy among nurses, nursing faculty, and nursing students. See the National League for Nursing newly published Preparing the Next Generation of Nurses to Practice in a Technology-rich Environment: An Informatics Agenda and The Tiger Summit Initiative. The 2007 Tiger Summar Report is at https://www.tigersummit.com/uploads/TIGERInitiative_Report2007_bw.pdf.
Of course the big question is how to accomplish those goals? I believe both clinicians and administrators want applications and education sessions they can use NOW, a "guerilla informatics" approach.
- How can I keep up to date with my clinical specialty?
- How can I use office productivity applications to decrease manual data recording and analysis?
- How can I communicate effectively with my staff or committe?
- How can I lean these things quickly with minimal classroom time or cost?
2 comments:
I have been following this whole discussion about work literacy and been asking who we capture health professionals' interest. Some of the problem I believe is attitudes to learning and the whole time cognizance issue. I will be interested to hear how this conversation develops because I have had terrible trouble getting HPs to engage with computer applications/social networking, whatever you want to call it.
That is the problem. Most healthcare people are needs driven. I think many may be at the point of hurting enough to want to learn. The trick is to package it in an interesting a enjoyable way.
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