Nursing and midwifery regulators must support education institutions to embed digital technologies into their curricula, leaders from Europe, Asia and Africa have urged. The calls come as part of plans to ensure that the next generation of nurses all over the world can lead digital transformation within the profession. “It is clear we cannot leave this agenda to a few digitally interested nurse specialists" Natasha Phillips During the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress, being held in Canada this week, nurses pioneering digital transformation in their countries shared the approaches they were taking. The former chief nursing information officer (CNIO) for England, Professor Natasha Phillips, told congress that digital transformation “should be global” and “future focused”. In addition, she called for nurses across the world to create “a unified vision” of how the profession should practice “in a world that is digitised, connected and transformed”. A key outcome for embracing digital must be to free time for “relational aspects of care”, argued Professor Phillips. She said: “What we too often see is the translation of old ways of working into digital systems. “This has led to overburdened nurses spending considerable time documenting care.” Nurses spend around 15% of their […]
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