NurseZone - On the job - Technology report

NurseZone - On the job - Technology report: "For years, nurses have been advocating for patient information at the point of care. Now, Helen Connors, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Informatics at the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Lawrence, Kansas, has introduced �information at the point of learning.�
At Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, in Baltimore, Maryland, Patricia Abbott, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, assistant professor and co-director of the World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization Center for Information Systems in Nursing Care, concluded that �it is a crime to graduate nursing students who don�t know how to interact in this complex and information intensive environment.� "