Nurses Life in the Digital Era
Nursing care
is provided at an individual level with the aim to provide the best and safest
care possible. The nurse-patient encounter forms the basis of a person-centered
care. eHealth is a tool that can be employed to support person-centered care.
To this end, it needs to be integrated into nurses’ professional practice,
irrespective of role, function, and area of activity. eHealth can support
healthcare processes in order to ensure quality, patient safety, a
person-centered approach and continuity in the care process. Nurses
frequently have a coordinating function in the organization, which among other
things includes the handling of health-related information. This information
should be available in the right format, on the right occasion and to the right
person in the care process as a basis for decision-making, provision, and
evaluation of health care. A prerequisite for eHealth to develop in that
direction and to meet the patient’s care needs is that nurses, irrespective of
their role, contribute with their knowledge and commitment.
eHealth influences many
aspects of healthcare
such as structure, processes, and outcome, encompassing prerequisites,
delivery, follow up and development. The Swedish Society of Nursing’s eHealth
Strategy is divided into target areas based on nurses’ perspective and the
National eHealth Strategy. These areas are Information management,
Communication and collaboration, Core ethical values, Learning and Competence,
Leadership and management, Technical support and Research
and development. Each area contains a number of specified targets within
nurses’ areas of responsibility that must be met to benefit patients and their
significant others. This, in turn, requires that politicians, decision-makers,
and care providers contribute with the necessary eHealth infrastructure and
other support.
Nurses are responsible
for ensuring that nursing information is of such extent and quality that it
contributes to a holistic picture of the patient’s health
status and care needs. Ensuring high-quality and
person-centered care requires that nursing documentation is an integrated part
of the information that is systematically registered and compiled. Nurses’
interventions and nursing care constitute a substantial part of health care
services but are seldom reported.
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19-21, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.
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