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