title: Nursing intranet for communication and knowledge management.
abstract: Leveraging on staff's familiarity with the global Internet and the Hospital Information Technology infrastructure, nurses at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) first took the challenge to design and develop an in-house intranet, which serves as a communication network in 1997. This nursing intranet was further enhanced using multi-media technology to develop e-learning modules on nursing specialty, skill-based, and audio slides presentation training. In addition, it also serves as a repository for policies, operational, nursing procedure documents and catalogue of forms, patient instruction pamphlets. Nurses can easily print all these forms and teaching brochures on-line. The nursing intranet offers cost-effective solution for distributing information through virtual network and accessible from over 700 points in SGH, 6 other affiliated medical institutions, and from nurses' homes too.
authors.affiliation: Information Technology Department, SingHealth Group, Singapore. Alvin.Teow.B.S.@singhealth.com.sg
authors.forename: Alvin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Teow
authors.forename: Wei Chen
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Lay Geok
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D009732:Nursing Care; D012846:Singapore