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Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part II
Issue 11 of the Charting Nursing's Future series shows how nurses are shaping, and being shaped by health information technologies.
Quality and safety gaps in the health care arena, the focus of several reports published by the Institute of Medicine in the past decade, have spurred many changes in the way services are being delivered, documented, financed, and evaluated. Technology is at the center of many of these reforms. Health care professionals—eager for better tools to manage clinical data, communicate with each other, stay up to date about the latest research concerning evidence-based care, and educate and supervise staff—have been actively engaged in shepherding the industry into the digital age. The value of health information technologies (HITs), in particular, is now widely acknowledged by nurses (see figure 1). This issue of Charting Nursing’s Future, the second in a miniseries on quality and safety, examines the role of nurses in designing, implementing, and educating clinicians to use HITs.
Charting Nursing's Future Archives
- 1 Addressing the Nursing Shortage - Part I
- 2 Addressing the Nursing Shortage - Part II
- 3 New Research that Illuminates Policy Issues
- 4 The Nursing Faculty Shortage
- 5 Facts and Controversies about Nursing Staffing Policies
- 6 New Research Provides Solutions to the Nursing Shortage
- 7 Strengthening Public Health Nursing - Part I
- 8 Strengthening Public Health Nursing - Part II
- 9 Nursing's Prescription for a Reformed Health System
- 10 Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part I
- 11 Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part II
- 12 Perspectives on Pay for Performance in Nursing
- 13 Expanding America's Capacity to Educate Nurses
- 14 Unlocking the Potential of School Nursing
- 15 Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part III
- 16 Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report - Part 1
- 17 Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report - Part II
- 18 Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report - Part III
- 19 Celebrating a Sustained Commitment to Improving Health and Health Care Through Nursing: RWJF Marks Its 40th Anniversary
- 20 Improving Patient Access to High-Quality Care
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