Observations on sustainable and ubiquitous healthcare informatics from Florence Nightingale.
As nurses around the world prepare to celebrate the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale in 2010 this paper reviews her work on using information, especially statistics, to analyze and manage patient care and links that to current developments in informatics. It then examines assistive technologies and how they may impact on nursing practice in the future and links these developments to the writings of Florence Nightingale. The paper concludes by suggesting that in progressing towards sustainable and ubiquitous healthcare informatics we need to study history in order to learn from the lessons of Florence Nightingale and other healthcare pioneers.
Betts
Helen J
HJ
University of Winchester, United Kingdom. Helen.Betts@winchester.ac.uk
Wright
Graham
G
D005260:Female; D006676:History of Nursing; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D048108:Nursing Informatics