6 - 8 April 2011, Luxembourg.In a presentation during the Med-e-Tel 2011 opening session, David Benton, CEO of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), will be looking at where nursing and telenursing has been in the past, where it stands now and where it needs to go in the future.
"In considering where we have been in the past, telenursing will be placed within a wider conceptualization of advances in health technologies," says Benton. "In short, the past century has seen a period of phenomenal technological advancement, the integration of technology with our health care delivery system is almost the norm and the potential for these continuing trends will be highlighted." Alongside this, Benton's presentation will also consider the changing demographics of society and what this will mean in relation to technology use into the future.
The International Council of Nurses has undertaken a range of activities to support the development of telenursing and its application to practice.Several initiatives including key publications, the ICNP (International Classification for Nursing Practice) development program and the ICN's future orientated eHealth program, will be explained.In addition to ICN's developments, a range of wider factors distilled from their global understanding of telenursing development will be discussed - including, the technology device, quantum progression, regulation and ethics, competence development and the evidential base.
The presentation will conclude by exploring where telenursing needs to be as we move into the second decade of this millennium. Issues of connectivity and interoperability, next-generation telemetry, a more proactive rather than reactive delivery model and the role that nurses as architects of future change and policy development will be explored.
The Med-e-Tel opening session, providing a Global Telemedicine and eHealth Update, is scheduled for 6 April 2011.
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