The future of specialist nursing

The Nursing Specialist Group

Medical software tools began to emerge during the 1980's, some became known as 'expert systems'. In contrast to conventional software which process data, expert systems process 'knowledge'. For this reason, expert systems are also called ‘Knowledge Based Systems' (KBS). The most well known medical example is MYCIN.' This expert system was developed at Stanford University in 1976 to aid physicia...

Diabetes specialist nursing: looking to the future, learning from the past.

Diabetes specialist nursing, like many other aspects of nursing, is facing a challenging time in terms of limited resources, staff stress and increasing client caseloads (Naughton and Nolan, 1998). This trend seems set to continue and therefore reflection on and analysis of the role of the diabetes specialist nurse (DSN) is essential so that DSNs can understand their role and meet such challeng...

The future of nursing.

Specialist nursing training in Poland: applications for neuroscience nursing.

BACKGROUND Nurses have a pivotal role in providing facilitating, advocating and promoting the best possible care and outcome for the client. To ensure decisions and actions are based on current standards of practice, nurses must be accountable for participation in ongoing education in their area of practice. AIM To present a description of the current state of Polish nursing education and spe...

The future nursing voice.

Based on some articles in the journal Nursing Ethics, the author outlines some of the areas of major importance for nursing in the future. These areas--the care of elderly people, long-term home-based care, genetics, international research and conflict and war--demand a new voice of nursing, which is a political voice. The rationale for a political voice is the ICN Code of ethics for nurses and...