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NURSING INFORMATICS : GENERIC HIGH-LEVEL TRAINING IN INFORMATICS FOR NURSES; GENERAL APPLICATIONS FOR LEARNING AND EDUCATION

Objective

NIGHTINGALE seeks to boost telematics training for nursing in Europe, through the use of information systems and coordination with other health sector training initiatives. A professional nursing users' group will monitor and publicise project activity at workshops and conferences. Courseware material will include multimedia technologies and appropriate software packages, alongside books and other traditional teaching material. Collaboration of multimedia publishers will be sought in marketing the courses.

NIGHTINGALE is an essential project in the planning and implementation of strategy in Training the Nursing Profession in using and applying healthcare information systems. NIGHTINGALE will contribute towards the appropriate use of the developed Telematics infrastructure across Europe by educating and training in a harmonising way nurses across Europe in the upcoming field of Nursing Informatics.

NIGHTINGALE will cooperate with all European actions and projects in the area of training health care professionals to provide consensus curriculum development in Nursing Informatics. The most essential part and contribution of this development will be provided by the Users' Group which will comprise of nursing professionals, nursing systems professionals and health policy makers in the area of nursing education represented from all European Union members states. The Users' Group will be the monitoring and dissemination body of the work performed, where workshops and conferences will be the major platform of the consensus process.

NIGHTINGALE will develop courseware material based on the curriculum development process using multimedia technologies. Computer based training software packages in Nursing Informatics will be the basis of the training material and the corresponding courses. CD-ROM based training and reference material will be also provided in the courses whereas the traditional booklets, teaching material and the textbooks can play an adequate role in training. Dissemination and exploitation of courses will be initiated through the SME multimedia publishing partner. Collaboration of other multimedia publishers will be sought during the operation of the project for wider commercial dissemination of courses.

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University of Athens
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75 M.Asias Street, Goudi
11527 Athens
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