Understanding the Learning Needs of New Graduate Nurses at a Surgical Ward to Develop a Smartphone/Table Based Training System.

Taiwan government and health officials had made the new graduate nurses training program a mandatory requirement for all teaching hospitals in order to train new graduate nurse staffs to prepare them for the clinical practice. Mobile devices may provide a feasible and useful tool for the new graduate nurses to learn knowledge/skills, thus, the study researchers proposed to develop a smartphone/tablet based learning system to assist the new graduate nurses in the study hospital ease their transition into the RN roles. Prior to developing this electronic training system, learning needs assessment was carried out. A focus group research method was used to help the researchers better understand the learning needs of new graduate nurses. The data is still under analysis, results and discussed will be reported as soon as the analysis is completed.