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.