Handheld Technology and Its Clinical Applications for Nursing

[rninformatics, DNP, RN]

"The accessibility and mobility that handheld technology can provide to

clinical data needs to be communicated to nurses."

The American Nurses Association's Standards and Scope of Practice for

Nursing Informatics includes the use of "identifying and implementing

information handling technologies" that support patient care and nursing

practice. The Midwest Alliance for Nursing Informatics, in keeping with

these Standards and Scope of Practice guidelines presents: HANDHELD

TECHNOLOGY AND IT'S CLINICAL APPLICATIONS FOR NURSING.

The day long presentation will be held in Chicago in March

of 2001.

The program's goals will be to provide education on handheld technology, to

investigate the clinical applications available for nurses (or lack thereof), to

communicate how point of care documentation and data access can be

facilitated by the technology and to discuss potential security implications

related to the technology's use in the clinical setting. Presenters will be from

RNpalm, the Nursing Informatics Working Group of the American Informatics Association and the Midwest Alliance for Nursing Informatics.

PDA vendor representatives will provide device demonstrations

Additionally, speakers will address the gap between the existence of handheld

technology and it's actual clinical adoption by nurses.

Point of care clinical data capture and access (allowing nurses to access

clinical data close to the patient, wherever the patient may be) has long been

considered a Nursing and Nursing Informatics practice ideal. Any technology

that can be utilized at the bedside to assist nurses in patient care should be

thoroughly investigated and fully utilized by Nurses.

See: www.maninet.org

and http://www.rnpalm.com/MANI.htm

[This message has been edited by rninformatics (edited December 22, 2000).]