title: Nursing and eHealth: Are We Preparing Our Future Nurses as Automatons or Informaticians?
abstract: The Education Working Group of IMIA NI present this thought provoking panel where the changing and challenging role of nursing will be explored within the information intensive eHealth arena. The session will be of interest to any nurse as the discussion will be driven by the objective of trying to understand how best to prepare nurses to be actively engaged in information and communication technology (ICT) developments that enhance care assessment, delivery, evaluation and audit. As a balance, the discussion will consider the increasing emergence of 'nursing by numbers' where risk assessment tools are used in an automatic way leaving little room for individual evidenced based care.
authors.affiliation: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Honey
authors.affiliation: Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
authors.forename: Paula M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Procter
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, USA.
authors.forename: Marisa L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: University of Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moen
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
authors.forename: Grace T M
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Dal Sasso
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000639:trends*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009726:Nurses / Q000639:trends*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000639:trends*; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000639:trends*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000639:trends*