The Nursing of the Future: combining Digital Health and the Leadership of Nurses

Abstract

The practice of caring for sick people has existed since ancient times. Contemporarily, we owe to Florence Nightingale and other exponents the conception of Nursing as a profession, being fundamental in guaranteeing health care, which is increasingly developed by multidisciplinary teams with the potential for greater proximity to people through the use of digital technologies, especially in an increasingly global world (1). The insufficient number of nurses in the world is an identified problem and has been a global concern. However, there is a lack of leaders assuming the necessary changes in sanitary practices, management, teaching and health policies in general and, above all, in promoting multidisciplinary teamwork. In this sense, the focus is now on the leadership of a new generation of nurses, who can reinforce the aspects of ethics and values as the central axis of care with the interactivity of its users in the health systems and, for this, is fundamental to enhance the leadership of experienced nurses. The World Health Organization and the Global Advisory Panel on the Future of Nursing suggest that effective communication between health professionals and users of health services is imperative, as well as good technical performance, with integrity and humanism, aligned with the Sustainable Development objectives (2). A set of structural and organizational barriers limit nurses in responding to rapid changes in health. In 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine organized an initiative to visualize the future of the nursing profession, establishing four recommendations:

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