Friday 3 August 2018


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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