E-Nursing: electronic nursing resources on your desktop.
E-Nursing represents an innovative approach to nursing education that has the potential to support professional practice throughout the institution. This paper details the benefits, design and promotion of an electronic nursing resource collection. How to divide responsibility, cost and expertise in such a project is also discussed. Preliminary usage statistics validate E-Nursing as a point-of-care education tool for nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital. A planned approach to implementation has been an effective means of introducing E-Nursing in an institution that previously relied on traditional hard-copy resources housed in the hospital's library.
Kendall
Sandra
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Library Services, Mount Sinai Hospital.
Massaralla
Susan
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Hynes-Gay
Patricia
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Vincent
Leslie
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D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D007994:Libraries, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education; D009864:Ontario; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation