E-health and Nursing: Using Smartphones to Enhance Nursing Practice.
Phones have evolved from a two-way analog form of communication to palm sized computers called smartphones. Smartphones support audio, video, text, email communication, calendars, lists, contacts, journals, calculators, pictures, weather updates, medical applications and more. One of the greatest ad...
| Publicado en: | Online Journal of Nursing Informatics Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 10 - 15 |
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| Formato: | pictorial Journal Article |
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HIMSS Foundation
Jun2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104494299&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104494299 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10899758 Z2C jtl: Online Journal of Nursing Informatics issn: 10899758 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2012 vid: 16 iid: 2 pid: 28397 pub: HIMSS Foundation place: Kittanning, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 104494299 104494299 2011651618 104494299 ppf: 10 ppct: 5 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: E-health and Nursing: Using Smartphones to Enhance Nursing Practice. aug: au: T., Wyatt P., Krauskopf sug: subj: Nursing Practice Software Wireless Communications Diffusion of Innovation Drugs, Prescription Exercise PubMed Radiography Resource Databases, Health Wellness ab: Phones have evolved from a two-way analog form of communication to palm sized computers called smartphones. Smartphones support audio, video, text, email communication, calendars, lists, contacts, journals, calculators, pictures, weather updates, medical applications and more. One of the greatest advantages of using healthcare applications on smartphones is convenience. The portability supports quick access to references and tools that have not been easily accessible until now. Smartphones even assist healthcare workers with completing their daily tasks. For example, nurses may teach patients about monitoring their health, such as tracking their blood pressure by using tools on smartphones. A variety of applications are available for managing chronic disease, diet, exercise and lifestyle choices. While smartphones have many useful features, like any other technology, smartphones are ever changing with more advanced features. This creates a challenge for nurses to keep up with the latest but there are helpful guides and websites dedicated to this topic. This paper will briefly review smartphone adoption, various operating systems for smartphones, and highlight more commonly used applications and websites. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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