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Application of Digital Educational Contents in the

Mlinarska Nursing School

Digital educational content is designed as an interactive and innovative way to motivate
students and to encourage active learning. Digital educational content is created as part of the
ESF project Regional Center of Competence Mlinarska. The project started 3 years ago, during
the corona virus pandemic, and an additional incentive for improving the content was the need
to teach online. The idea for creating digital educational content came from the fact that the
newer generations of students almost exclusively search the Internet for information via search
engines, using their mobile phones or computers.
Digital content are used in education and is intended for learning process, self-assessment, in
class or at home, but also for the teaching and monitoring process done by teachers. It can be
used as a whole, but also in smaller independent fragments. It is adjustable for students with
special educational needs.
Four digital contents were developed: Basic procedures in patient health care, Procedures of
health care of surgical patients, Emergency medical procedures and Procedures in the health
care of children. The contents are primarily intended for nursing high-school and university
students but are publicly available for free use by anyone interested.
Our opinion is that this type of educational content would be especially useful for
nurses/technicians who are currently employed in order to remember the proper way of
performing certain procedures. In that matter, it is possible to quickly access visual media that
provide insight into the procedure in nursing care, thus reducing the possibility of working
errors and raising the quality of health care.
After a relatively short time of using digital educational contents, we did a short cross-sectional
research on students of the Mlinarska Nursing School related to the use of published content’s.
The study involved 166 students. Only 9% said they have never used digital healthcare
educational contents on the Izzi platform. When asked to assess how much the use of digital
educational contents helped them in overcoming certain subjects, 20% answered that it helped
them greatly, and 58.4% that it helped them somewhat. Students stated that the contents helped
them the most in overcoming the subjects General Health Care, Special Health Care and Health
Care of Surgical Patients.
A large number of students believe that the contents should be expanded and cover more topics,
also given that medicine is constantly progressing, we hope that it will also be possible to
document such innovative contents in the future so that students can gain new knowledge
quickly and with higher quality.

Key words: digital educational content, Regional Centre of Competence Mlinarska,
evaluation, health care

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