1. Current nursing and midwifery contribution to leading digital health policy and practice: An integrative review.
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Janes G, Chesterton L, Heaslip V, Reid J, Lüdemann B, Gentil J, Oxholm RA, Hamilton C, Phillips N, and Shannon M
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Aim: To review the current nursing and midwifery contribution to leading digital health (DH) policy and practice and what facilitates and/or challenges this., Design: Integrative literature review., Methods: Pre-defined inclusion criteria were used. Study selection and quality assessment using the appropriate critical appraisal tools were undertaken by two authors, followed by narrative synthesis., Data Sources: Six databases and hand searching for papers published from 2012 to February 2024., Findings: Four themes were identified from 24 included papers. These are discussed according to the World Health Organization's Global Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery and indicate nurses/midwives are leading DH policy and practice, but this is not widespread or systematically enabled., Conclusion: Nurses and midwives are ideally placed to help improve health outcomes through digital healthcare transformation, but their policy leadership potential is underused., Implications for the Profession And/or Patient Care: Nurses/midwives' DH leadership must be optimized to realize maximum benefit from digital transformation. A robust infrastructure enabling nursing/midwifery DH policy leadership is urgently needed., Impact: This study addresses the lack of nursing/midwifery voice in international DH policy leadership. It offers nurses/midwives and health policymakers internationally opportunity to: drive better understanding of nursing/midwifery leadership in a DH policy context; enhance population outcomes by optimizing their contribution; Develop a robust infrastructure to enable this., Reporting Method: Reporting adheres to the EQUATOR network, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines., Patient or Public Contribution: No patient or public contribution., (© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Advanced Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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- 2024
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