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Electronic Networking for Nurses
Author(s) -
Sparks Susan M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1993.tb00789.x
Subject(s) - the internet , electronic library , information networks , internet access , world wide web , access to information , computer science , line (geometry) , information access , business , digital library , literature , mathematics , art , geometry , poetry
Electronic networks can provide access to other nurses locally and around the world via electronic mail and on‐line interactions. Networks can give nurses access to information and to the data that are processed and stored in computers in their own facility and in computers at remote sites. The major international networks, Internet, FidoNet, and BITNET each offer these opportunities. In addition, Internet, the network most useful to nurses, allows access to Sigma Theta Tau's International Nursing Library, E.T. Net, and the MEDLARS family of bibliographic data bases. Taking advantage of the services and resources networks offer can facilitate nursing practice, education, and research.