ISSN 2756-3332
African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN 2198-4638 Vol. 2 (7), pp. 480-482, September, 2015. © International Scholars Journals
Review
A review of an autonomous virtual organization for e-nursing characteristics, effects on quality factors, building blocks architecture and challenges
*Azadeh S. Zeigham, Abbas A. D and Alidreza F. Vali
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 19 August, 2015
Abstract
The term E-nursing has been used to refer to the incorporation of ICT into nursing. Point-to-point connections using private networks are used by hospitals and clinics that deliver services directly or contract out specialty services to independent nursing service providers at ambulatory care sites. Radiology, mental health and even intensive care services are being provided under contract using Tele-nursing and telemedicine to deliver the services. An autonomous system manages complexity and improves the system complexity without interfering expert humans. The purpose of this paper is to present an autonomous virtual organization for e-nursing describing their characteristics, effects on quality factors, their building blocks architecture, and challenges.
Key words: E-Nursing, collaborative networks, information and communication technology (ICT), virtual organization breeding environment (VBE), autonomic computing, self-managing systems.