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nursix.org is a composition of traditional nursing, humanity, modern technology and the demand for freedom in arts and science - in other words: a nurse with a computer (or vice versa? It's a bull fight, however).

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Free Software in Nursing

nursix.org stands for information and communication technology (ICT) in nursing, with the ".org" pointing out the context of non-profit, free and open source development.

nursix.org is primarily dedicated to nurses and aims to promote the goal-directed development and application of free software in nursing by:

  • exploring theoretical and practical issues including scientific groundwork and consensus to provide guidance and advice for development and application of free nursing software
  • investigating existing projects to provide an overview of free software projects useful for nursing
  • developing and distributing its own free codebase for nursing software

Main subject groups:

  • Knowledge management and e-learning
  • Assessment tools and decision support
  • Documentation and data management
  • Communication and information management
  • Security and verification
  • Quality management and fault tracking
  • Team organization and resource management

Background

In the past two decades has happened scarcely more in the field of nursing informatics than just the definition of some basic terms and subjects, while real solutions are still widely missing.

Scientific groundwork barely outgrew draft proposal or minimum consent - and premature implementation has often rather increased the workload for nurses than optimized any processes.

Thus, among today's nurses you will find a lot of scepticism, disaffirmation or at least annoying querulousness or simply lack of interest in using modern information and communication technology in their work.

On the other hand, substantial technology producers and service providers persistently ignore the needs and chances in the nursing field, while other markets overgrow with far less essential solutions.

In view of this, nursix.org is above all intended to ally professional nursing and the free software movement - thus (hopefully) raising a chance to turn the tide.

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