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TELENURSING

Concerted Action on Telematics for Nursing

Project Code:   A2104
Project value:  150 KECU
EC contribution:  150 KECU
No of partners:  22
No of countries:  15
Duration:  24 months
Contact:
Randi Annikki Mortensen
Director Gunnar Haase Nielsen
Research Fellow and Manager
Danish Institute for
Health and Nursing Research Copenhagen
Fensmarkgade 3
DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel.: +45-31-39.40.66
Fax: +45-31-39.03.31

Overview

Concerted action to facilitate the development of interoperability of nursing applications in Europe.

Purpose and objective

The main contribution of TELENURSING is on the conceptual level as is reflected in the full title of the action: European Classifications for Nursing Practice with Regard to Patient Problems, Nursing Interventions and Patient Outcome, including Educational Measures. Classifications are an important vehicle for information in the health care sector. TELENURSING has therefore focused on topics related to the development of classifications, viz. definition and coding of clinical terms, standardisation of terminology and the development of nursing minimum data sets in Europe. It is hoped that the awareness created by TELENURSING about the conceptual foundation of nursing in the nursing process will be taken into consideration in the development of telematic applications for health care.

Nurses from not only EU countries, but also from Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Slovene have through TELENURSING demonstrated an active interest in the development of adequate information systems and basic minimum data sets encompassing comparable essential nursing care data on a European level in order to answer people's needs for nursing care in a unified Europe of tomorrow. 15 countries are partners in the TELENURSING consortium: Belgium, Denmark France Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovene, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Results

One result of TELENURSING was the translation of a major questionnaire from English into 8 different European languages: French, German, Greek Italian Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. This translation effort covered not only the questions, but also introductory texts explaining concepts related to the nursing process and health care informatics.

Reports based upon the TELENURSING questionnaire have been issued on:

Another result of TELENURSING was the collection of clinical nursing care data across 10 different countries using the same-firs version of a European standard data sheet designed in order to start the development of an electronic "Mini"-Euro-Nursing Health Data Base. Ideally a Euro-Nursing Health Data Base would on a European level allow descriptions of:

TELENURSING believes that concrete comparisons between and inside European countries should be encouraged in order to create a learning and educational process to obtain a progressive better uniformity and comparability of essential nursing care data in Europe, because real use will improve availability quality, and comparability.

A third result was the development of the first proposal for a Euro-Nursing Minimum Data Set encompassing essential examples of nursing problems/diagnoses and interventions.

A demonstrator was exhibited at the December 1994 Lisbon Conference as an electronic patient record combining free text and coded nomenclature applied to the nursing process using classifications of Nursing Practice with regard to Patient Problems, Nursing Interventions and Patient Outcome demonstrating how TELENURSES envision their documentation of nursing practice. The demonstrator has been developed by Andre Assimacopoulos and Andre Borgazzi Divison Informatique, Institutions Universitaires de Psychiatrie, Geneva, Switzerland.

List of Deliverables

List of Participants

Director Randi Annikki Mortensen,
Danish Institute for Health
and Nursing Research,
Fensmarksgade 3
DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Tel.: +45-31-39.40.66
Fax: +45-31-39.03.31
Mr. Eric Maclot
CHU du Sart Tilman (B35)
B-4000 Liege, Belgium
Tel.: +32-4-166.70.10
Mrs. Carmen Sanchis Pinol
Nursing Research Unit
Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Sinesio Delgado, 6 (Pabellon 3)
E-28029 Madrid, Spain
Tel.: +34-1-323.01.41
Fax: +34-1-323.19.43
Mrs. Rosa Amaez Garcia
Direccion de Planificacion.
Departamento de Sanidad.
Gobierno Vasco. Alava 1er, 5
E-Vitoria, Spain
Tel.: +34-45-13.20.53
Fax: +34-45-14.59.73
Ms. O' Shea
St. James's Hospital,
School of Nursing.
James's Street
IRL-Dublin 8, Ireland
Prof. Umberto Valente
Cattedra di Chirurgia Sostitutiva e dei Trapianti d'Organo
Universita degli Studi di Genova
Via Benedetto XV, 10
I-16132 Genova, Italy
Mrs. Maria Pinto da Cruz Teixeira
Hospital da Universidade de Coimbra
Maxilofacial Surgery Service
Rue Tenente Valadim, 15
P-3000 Coimbra, Portugal
Mrs. Lila Fontes Pereira de Melo
Escola Superior
Enfermagem Maria Fernanda Resende
Av. Do Brasil, 53b
P-1700 Lisboa, Portugal
Direkteur Verpleging Tonny Gypen
Andersen Consulting
Handelsstraat 34
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: +32-2-510.43.33
Fax: +32-2-510.43.49
Gunnar Haase Nielsen
Danish Institute fo Health and Nursing Research.
3, Fensmarkgade
DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel.: +45-31-39.40.66
Fax: +45-31-39.03.31
Dr. Walter Sermeus
Katoholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Centrum voor Ziekenhuiswetenschap,
35, Kapucijnenvoer
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel.: +32-16-21.69.75
Fax: +32-16-21.69.70
Mrs. Geraldine McCarthy
R&D Manager for Nursing.
Dublin Hospital
IRL-Dublin, Ireland
Mrs. Rita Bencivenga
Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla
C.P. 2539
I-16139 Genova, Italy
Mrs. P.R.B. Pluyter-Wenting
Bazis, Hospital Information System
PO Box 901
NL-2316 XA Leiden, The Netherlands
Mrs. Ruth Roberts
Welsh Health Common Services Agency
Computer Centre, Velindre Road
Cardiff CF4 7XJ, U.K.
Liz Jenks
United Leeds
Teaching Hospital Trust
General Infirmary at Leeds
Great George Street
West Yorkshire
Leeds LS1 3EX, U.K.
Prof. Marianne Tallberg
Eur. Fed. for Medical Informatics
Enäsvägen 10 c
SF-00200 Helsinki, Finland
Director Randi Annikki Mortensen
Danish Institute for Health and
Nursing Research
3, Fensmarkgade
DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. John Mantas
University of Athens, School of Nursing
14-16, Aristidou Street, P. Faliro
GR-17563 Athens, Greece
Dr. Alessandra Massei
Sda Bocconi
Via Bocconi, 8
I-20100 Milano, Italy
Prof. A. Assimacopoulos
Division Informatique
Institutions Universitaires de Psychiatrie
1225 Chëne-Bourg,
CH-Geneva, Switzerland
Margareta Ehnfors
RNT
Department of Social Medicine
University Hospital
S-75185 Uppsala, Sweden

[ TELENURSE (4 FW, 1994-1998) ]

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