Digital working is changing nursing

摘要

The implementation of a health and care information system has the potential to improve clinical practice and both person- and family/carer-centred care. Some parts of the system, however, have had extremely negative consequences on nursing practice and therefore on nursing care, at least in the short term. From a clinical perspective, poorly planned and under-led systems can reduce nursing to a list of tasks generated by a care pathway, which diminishes nursing and gives rise to unsafe, unthinking nursing practice, creating a major clinical-governance issue.