Article 1: Is Technology Improving Nursing Care?

This is an article abstracted from the Canadian Nurses Association(CNA) website. It is a news releases.

This is an article about the importance of technology in nursing. From the article, i find out why and how important is it of the technology in improving nursing care. This is also the first time i read about the word 'E-nursing'. I learn a lot of new informations about nursing in other country and how advance are they to make use of technology in providing nursing care. There is some information below that i abstracted from the article...

E-nursing, the use of information and communication technology in nursing, is revolutionizing the way nurses interact with patients, deliver care and communicate with colleagues.

"Equipment such as computer terminals on hospital units, laptops for community health nurses and personal digital assistants for charting at the bedside are as necessary as stethoscopes for health-care providers to do their jobs," says Deborah Tamlyn, president of CNA. "Information and communications technology is an integrated and essential part of health-care practice."

"Technological innovation has swept the globe, and nurses have accepted the challenge this evolution brings," says Lucille Auffrey, chief executive officer of CNA. "Today, nurses work in a variety of e-health programs such as tele-triage. They access online libraries and databases of clinical practice guidelines in their workplaces and interact with their peers in discussion groups over the Internet. Nurses are also involved in developing standards to implement electronic health records, and many nursing educational programs are now offered online."

In order to make the nurses and health career expert in the information technology, the CNA has launched NurseONE. It is one of the strategy that the CNA launched to improve the information technology skills and knowledge of nurses.

As part of its e-nursing strategy CNA launched NurseONE, the Canadian Nurses Portal, today. NurseONE (INF-Fusion in French) is personalized and interactive to help nurses in Canada and around the world care for their patients, manage their careers and connect with colleagues and experts with the click of a mouse. NurseONE supports the depth and breath of nursing in all practice settings – clinical, education, administration and research.

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