ict & nursing: challenges for nursing practice
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ICT & Nursing: Challenges for Nursing
Practice
Anya Zubic
NursingNursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization
of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Nurses are, after Army, in the World’s largest professional group, more than 15 million nurses.
Nurses are the largest single group of healthcare providers in the World.
The evolution of Health Care and Nursing
Nursing has evolved dramatically in recent years.
Many of the changes has been driven by advances in information and communications technology (ICT).
The electronic tools now at nurses’ disposal are radicaly improving their ability to efficiently and accurately asses and treat their patients.
ICT is no longer an add-on to traditional methods of health care, but rather an integrated, integral part of practice.
Challenges for Nursing PracticeGlobalization
Mobility of Nurses & Patients
Ensuring Quality of Nursing Care
Development and ongoing use of ICT skills
Improving nurses’ competencies
Improving cross-border information sharing on nursing practice between countries.
Consumer - centered nursing with ICT: A futuristic viewpoint
Patient = Consumer = Client
ICT could enable Consumer – centered nursing
Development of unique Competency Framework for all Nurses in the World
Co-operation with all professional Nursing organizations Nursing Regulators Nursing Unions Nursing Professional Organizations
One unique ICT powered ID Card: Nursing Care Passport!
Nursing Care PassportICT powered ID Card
Storing of data and information:Education & Competence LevelContinuing professional DevelopmentProvided Care Information
Smart Card ID SolutionPhysical & Logical access controlSecure portable data storage with encryption and controlAll informaton are stored in Nursing Terminology format
How to make?Establishing International Project Team
Partnership with: International Nursing OrganizationsNational Nursing Organizations
Development of Project Plan & Phases
Team Leader Organization must be UN!Each UN member country appoints two representatives
One from National Nursing OrganizationOne from Ministry of Health / Government
Benefits for Nurse World Nursing Register Database
Connecting different information’s and knowledge’s as well as documenting the most important data in nursing care will lead to optimal quality of nursing care and results of health care will be much better.
Nurse Exchange Program - Mobility without borders Goal to develop international network for knowledge exchange, but also
the exchange of skills in area of nursing between all countries, EU members, as well as between other countries worldwide (USA, Asia,...).
By creating the unique employment exchange, migration of nurses will be easier and they will be free professionals who are providing nursing care.
Personal Nurse Development Portofolio Enable mobility of Nurses depends on formal education and
competencies all stored in Nursing Care Passport Smart ID Card.
ConclusionPriority is Patient Safety & Nursing Care Quality
ICT has solution!
Main focus is on human resources and organization issues
Nursing Care Passport Project could enable all
Essential is collaboration between ICT industry and Nursing Professional Community at global level
This type of project requires time, expertise and well-planned schedule!
Thank you!
Anya Zubic