Interview Guide
A qualitative analysis of faculty perceptions of
nursing informatics and education culture

1. Please tell me what the term “nursing informatics” means to you.
2. What does nursing informatics theory mean to you? How about nursing informatics practice?
3. In your opinion, what place does nursing informatics have within nursing education?
4. Would you please describe how nursing informatics does or does not fit the particular courses you teach?
5. What do you feel your personal responsibility is in relation to teaching students about nursing informatics?
6. How do you personally include technology in your teaching?
7. How do your students use technology to complete program assignments?
8. How do you see nursing informatics impacting on your students' ability to apply competent and humanistic client care ?
9. Would you please describe how you have observed nursing informatics being applied within the practice setting?
10. How are students included in this application within the practice setting?
11. What impact on client care have you observed from the application of nursing informatics in the practice setting?
12. How does the use of technology and nursing informatics applications and theory impact on your ability to teach nursing the way you feel it should be taught?
13. Do you feel supported in your decision to include or not include nursing informatics in your teaching? By whom?
14. In your opinion, what is the ideal way to utilize technology to teach nursing?
15. What are your predictions about the future of nursing informatics within nursing education in the next ten years?
16. What would it take to support faculty to experiment with various technologies within nursing education? Why?