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 …