TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS FOR NURSES

Objective

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.

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 Healthcare 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.

Fields of science

• medical and health sciences › health sciences › nursing

Programme(s)

• FP4-TELEMATICS 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development and demonstration in the area of telematic applications of common interest, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• C.7 - Telematics Applications for Healthcare

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Danish Institute for Health and Nursing Research (DIHNR)

Address

Fensmarkgade 3
2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark

Participants (9)

Conser Sistemi Avanzati Srl

Italy

Address

Via L. Gaurico 247
00143 Roma

GAGNALIND INC.

Iceland

Address

22,sudurlandsbraut
108 Reykjavik

INSTITUTIONS UNIVERSITAIRES DE GERIATRIE ET DE PSYCHIATRIE

Switzerland

Address

2,chemin Du Petit-bel-air
1225 Chene-bourg/geneva

INSTITUTO DE GESTAO DE INFORMATICA E FINANCEIRA DA SAUDE

Portugal

Address

61,av. Da Republica
1050 Lisboa

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

Belgium

Address

22,naamsestraat
3000 Leuven

STICHTING CENTRALE ONTWIKKEL- EN ONDERSTEUNINGSGROEP

Netherlands

Address

97,shipholweg
2316 XA Leiden

THE ASSOCIATION OF FINNISH LOCAL AUTHORITIES

Finland

Address

14,toinen Linja
00530 Helsinki

UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Greece

Address

75,mikras Asias Street
116 10 Athens

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

Address

Oxford Road
M13 9PL Manchester