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E-Nursing: electronic nursing resources on your desktop
Sandra Kendall1, Susan Massaralla, Patricia Hynes-Gay
1Library Services, Mount Sinai Hospital.
Nursing Leadership (Toronto, Ont.)
|August 26, 2003
Summary
Electronic nursing (E-Nursing) offers a new way to educate nurses and support professional practice. Usage statistics confirm its effectiveness as a point-of-care educational tool in hospitals.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Health Informatics
- Digital Health Resources
Background:
- Traditional nursing education relied on physical library resources.
- Institutions face challenges in updating and disseminating nursing knowledge.
- Need for accessible, up-to-date information at the point of care.
Purpose of the Study:
- To detail the benefits, design, and promotion of an electronic nursing resource collection (E-Nursing).
- To discuss the division of responsibility, cost, and expertise for implementing such a project.
- To evaluate E-Nursing as a point-of-care education tool for nurses.
Main Methods:
- Development and implementation of an electronic nursing resource collection.
- Analysis of project management aspects including responsibility, cost, and expertise sharing.
- Collection and analysis of preliminary usage statistics.
Main Results:
- E-Nursing provides a valuable approach to nursing education and professional practice support.
- Preliminary usage statistics validate E-Nursing as an effective point-of-care education tool.
- A planned implementation strategy was successful in introducing E-Nursing.
Conclusions:
- Electronic nursing resources can effectively supplement or replace traditional hard-copy materials.
- Successful implementation requires careful planning regarding resource allocation and expertise.
- E-Nursing demonstrates significant potential to enhance nursing education and practice.