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| Nursing Practice: Now | The Future: In Nursing Practice |
| Medical records are currently one year behind | Online update automatically comes with each patient |
| Consult with nurses with special knowledge | Internet listserve group, specialty groups (consumers/healthcare professionals/legislators/payors |
| Discuss problems with a particular nurse, to get her experienced view. Solutions for a patient care problem came from a patient who was a member of the listserv group | Find job opportunities, international learning experiences (preceptorships), recruitment, conference announcements. |
| RNs interested in specific populations such as gastrointestinal disease, Alzheimer's caregivers, Cancer care, or Schizophrenia, meet annually if department | Health information communications about details and legislative actions/updated include information from nurses around the world. This occurs daily. |
| The Present: Nursing Research | The Future: In Nursing Research |
| National Library of Medicine has some articles online and the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library, has an electronic directory of nursing researchers and abstracts of research conference proceedings | Peer review has been replaced with small-scale simulation modeling multi-site pilot studies |
| All research is collaborative among disciplines overcoming isolation by e-mail | Data that has been verified by at least 6 sources |
| Interventions take an average of 4 years to test | As soon as one researcher has developed an effective nursing intervention, it is replicated and tested at different sites around the world |
| The Present: Nursing Education | The Future: Nursing Education |
| Nursing campuses in universities with 20 to 100 students from the same area in class | Virtual nursing college with 12,800 faculty and 130,000 students from 64 countries |
| Some students can use laptop computers and modems to take notes in class | Students can get their assignments, have class discussions, hand in assignments, get their grades, access a variety of database information, and meet each other electronically. |
| Textbooks are out of date before they are published | Classmates will be from China and others from Africa. |
| Much of what nurses are currently do does lend to "electronic " restructuring. Remote telemetry systems are beginning to be used to monitor ongoing patient status and will be used in the treatment of complex and unstable patients. | Your computer server interprets and translates your message into the receiver's preferred language including Braille and sign language. Interactive cable technology will allow health professionals to make "electronic assessments (e.g., lung spirometry by telephone)" of patients in homes. |
| Telenursing through "desk top publishing" technology is already available to support collaboration between nurses, physicians and other health care professionals who can view and interact with the patient and their family by "television". For other home care references click here. | Information management will be the ultimate skill of the future. Being able to establish a patient data and outcomes "electronic filing" system is essential. For more information about management click here. |
| Your assignment is to prepare your future by practice by clicking here to read about recognizing change as opportunity, "dreaming" innovative services and also by carefully planning your future. | |
Thede, L., Hodson, K., & Mikan, K. (1994, May/June). The impact internet and nursing. Interactive Healthcare Newsletter.
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