A Clinically Intelligent Nursing Care System: What the CNE Needs to Know

The bedside nurse has been hampered in clinical decision making by several factors. As the amount of evidence-based information grows, the inability for the human mind to read, absorb, store, and recall the incredible amount of information necessary for effective clinical decision making becomes an impossible task. Consequently, the nurse is faced with a lack of evidence-based information at the point of care when needed and is handicapped by the fact that it takes 17 years1 to implement research into practice.