Abstract
Information technology (IT) has slowly been implemented in many health-care organizations (i.e. hospitals). The use of computers has advanced to home care and long-term facilities. Consequently, it is important that nurses are able to demonstrate competence and feel confident in the use of IT. This study was conducted to determine the self-satisfactory level of IT competency and to compare the relationship between self-satisfactory level and the actual performance of IT competencies of undergraduate Nursing students. A qualitative descriptive study design focused with convenience sampling technique was used. Data were collected on the starting day of the class for the pretest through a written survey distributed, and it was completed by 90 Nursing students in batch 6c and 60 Nursing students participated in the posttest after completion of the course. The final results of a set of 56 students in the final examination were collected. Data were analyzed in terms of descriptive statistics, t-test, and regression analysis. It was noticed that nursing students acquired more competence and satisfaction after the completion of IT preparatory course. Therefore, they performed well in their final examination. Finally, we concluded that Nursing students need an IT preparatory course before starting their nursing degree since it will help them to adapt to further education and nursing informatics field in the future.
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