This open textbook covers the foundations of evidence-based digital health for undergraduate nursing and midwifery students. It grounds digital health nursing concepts in concrete practices and enables students to explore these through practical online learning activities, designed around the five domains of the National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Capability Framework (2020). The resource provides core content for the undergraduate nursing and midwifery curriculum at Australian universities, reflecting contemporary best practice in digital health. It will also be beneficial to postgraduate courses focusing on digital health.
Chapter outlines
This resource includes the following parts. Select each to view the chapters it contains.
Chapter 1.1: Legislation and Regulatory frameworks in Digital Health
Chapter 1.2: Communication in Digital health context
Chapter 1.3: Digital safety and eProfessionalism
Part 2: Digital health workforce and systems transformation
Chapter 2.0: Digital health workforce and systems transformation
Chapter 2.1: Digital health advocacy role of health professionals
Chapter 2.2: Digital Health and Health Care Governance
Chapter 2.3: Digital health leadership and management
Part 3: Interpreting/understanding data quality in Digital Health
Chapter 3.1: Digital Health data - what, why, how, who, when, where?
Chapter 3.2: Evolution and principles of digital health data management
Chapter 3.3: Big Data and Digital Health analytics
Part 4: Digital Health care contexts
Chapter 4.1: Digital Health enabling health care practice
Chapter 4.2: Digital Health evidence base and safety and quality
Chapter 4.3: Digital Health supporting health and care research
Part 5: Digital health care and future technologies
Chapter 5.1: Digital health innovation and challenges
Chapter 5.2: Digtial health eSafety and Governance
Chapter 5.3: Global trends and health priorities in Digital Health
This is a living open textbook that evolves in response to feedback and digital health practices. Further chapters in development will be published through 2025/26.
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