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Updated: Jun 3, 97 |
TELENURSE | |
| Telematic applications for nurses in Europe |
| Project Nr: | HC 1113 | Group: I | Project Duration: 30 months |
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| Category: | Comparative Telematics-based Nursing Data | ||
| Summary: | Work on clinical nursing record system, regarding multimedia and communication aspects. That includes the development of new modules. The development of Euro-Nursing Health Database - Server and Client Information Tool. Establishing a Euro-Nursing Care Network. Finally, there is work on standardisation of terminology, data items and protocols. | ||
| Mission: | TELENURSE plans to promote an International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) and a clinical nursing minimum data set (NMDS) in electronic patient care records to counter the lack of uniform comparative descriptive data on hospital nursing and its cost-effectiveness. Formally requested by the International Council of Nurses, the ICNP (and NMDS) will offer a framework for suitably structured nursing information systems and care records which will be used to validate the applicability of ICNP to European health establishments. The project will also demonstrate the role of NMDS in comparative summaries of nursing activity. | ||
| URL: | www.nethotel.dk/dihnr/telenurse/index.htm | ||
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| Name of Institution | City+Postal Code | Country | Region |
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| Kommunedata (KMD) | Copenhagen 1601 | Denmark | DK01 |
| Hospital Universitaire de Gevene (HUG) | Geneva 1225 CH | CH | N/A |
| HISCOM | Leiden 2316 XA NL | Netherlands | N33 |
| Conser Sistemi Avanzi (CSA) | Rome 00143 IT | Italy | IT52 |
| Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) | Leuven 3000 BE | Belgium | B1 |
| The Association of Finnish Local Authorities (AFLA) | Helsinki 00530 Fi | Finland | Fi11 |
| Victoria University of Manchester (VUM) | Manchester M139P2 | GB | UK82 |
| Instituto de Gestáo Informática e Financeira da Saúde (IGIF) | Lisboa 1050 PT | Porutgal | PT13 |
| University of Athens (UOA) | Athens GR-115-27 | Greece | GR3 |
| GAGNALIND inc. | Reykjavik 108 | IS | N/A |
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Maintenance care and palliative care are major challenges to the European society. Care for the elderly, disabled and chronically ill relies mainly on nurses who account for close to 50% of salaries in hospital charges. But no systematized standardized data are available to describe and compare nursing care activity, quality and cost effectiveness in hospitals. Telenurse will as an accompanying measure of the Telematics Application Programme in the Health care sector start to fill-up this gap by promoting the use of the emerging International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) and an associated clinical nursing minimum data set (NMDS) in electronic patient care records. Most of the group being active in this field in Europe are partners of the consortium. This will allow capitalizing on their experience by elaborating and initiating a strategy promoting the use of common nomenclature, minimum data set and data structure for nursing practice in Europe. ICNP (a mandate of the International Council of Nurses to the consortium coordinator) will serve as a base for structuring information. Available nursing information systems and nursing care records presently being developed will be adapted to the use of ICNP and a NMDS. They will act as field test sites validating the structure of the ICNP and its applicability to European health care institutions and be presented as a basis for consensus building on ICNP and NMDS in Europe. Delegates of member states not present in the consortium will be invited to participate. NMDS will be analyzed to demonstrate their ability to summarize and compare nursing activity among wards, hospitals or countries. The data needed to describe the nursing care will also be evidenced for integration in parent electronic records and for standardization work by the official standardization authorities
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Users involved Nurses in clinical practice, management and research Technologies and/or approach used Existing technologies will be applied to demonstrate the use of ICNP in terminology work, in patient care records, in clinical databases and in presentation tools NMDS Expected benefits for the citizen Better nursing care and information about quality and efficiency of clinical practice in nursing Expected benefits for the users of the application Relevance of electronic patient records to professional nurses in clinical practice and augmented clinical nursing research potential of electronic pt. records. Expected benefits for the European Industries Information about functional and data requirements in clinical nursing, including information about the emerging International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) and suggestions for a nursing minimum data set NMDS to be implemented. Contribution to EU-policies A European health policy must include nursing care therefore adequate information systems in nursing must be based upon international comparable basic nursing minimum data sets (ICNP/NMDS) |
| Odense University Hospital (OUH) | Odense | Fyns AMT | DK |
| Hôpitaux Universitaire de Genève (HUG) | Chêne Bourg | CH | |
| AZVU | Amsterdam | Noord-Holland | NL |
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