How Health Information Tools Help Nursing: International Perspectives from Five Countries.

This presentation will be in a workshop format with a panel of presenters representing five countries. All speakers will address the question of how are health information tools helping the profession of nursing, thereby giving an international perspective, before inviting the audience to discuss and share their views. Health information tools are numerous, yet little consideration is sometimes given as to how these tools help nursing.

[Decision-support guideline in obstetrical nursing: application of fuzzy logic technique].

Fuzzy Logic has been used as an approach for knowledge representation and a technique for modeling Clinical Decision-Support Systems. In considering such technique underutilization for modeling nursing clinical decisions, this essay aims to present general notions about this technique and through it to develop a theoretical formulation of practice guideline to support decision in amniotomy cases for pregnant women in normal labor.