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Evidence Based Guidelines for Nurses and Social Care Workers for the deployment of eHealth services<\/span><\/h2>

“Innovative, high quality, safe and cost-effective national healthcare systems are dependent upon policy-makers and stakeholders developing and implementing high-quality eHealth services.” (Sheikh et al., 2011)
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Officially launched in December 2013, in Warsaw, in the context of the EU eHealth Action Plan<\/a>, and coordinated by the EFN, this two-year EU project<\/a>, funded by DG Connect<\/a> and composed of 24 partners<\/a>, from all over Europe, with a mix of professional associations in nursing and social care, nursing regulators and unions, informal carers, patients, researchers and research communities, civil society representatives and industry, this EFN EU project \u201cENS4Care<\/a>\u201d was aiming to share good nursing and social work practices in eHealth services and, through the evaluation and consensus building, create a set of guidelines focusing on: healthy lifestyle and prevention, early intervention and clinical practice, integrated care, skills development for advanced roles, and nurse ePrescribing; next to establish a sustainable mechanism to support nursing and social care research in the field of ICT enabled integrated care, and to create a sustainable and structured collaboration network, making key stakeholders able to promote innovation of nursing and social care services through the mutual sharing of good practices of telehealth and telecare services.<\/p>

Best practices collected
\"\"<\/strong>Drawn from a total of 122 existing good practices collected in 2014 from the field and the daily practice, at national and regional levels, developed by nurses and social workers and including the use of eHealth tools for the benefit of the patient, these five Guidelines (prevention, clinical practice, advanced roles, integrated care and nurse ePrescribing), are aiming to inform the policy-makers in order to help them in the decisional process concerning healthcare systems, eHealth policies and delivery of care across the EU; inform nurses and social workers on the implementation steps of eHealth services; and promote a culture of evaluation of any service innovation.<\/p>

1\/ ICT enabled Health Coaching in Prevention (WP2)
<\/strong>ENS4Care supported the exchange of information and experiences among different partners and provided an overview of the range\/type of eHealth services being used for prevention, in order to extract knowledge on the use of eHealth applications as tools to enhance healthy lifestyles that would boost prevention in healthcare from a life circle approach. There is evidence showing how to strengthen the role of nursing in the reshaping of the healthcare systems that, with the right knowledge, skills and opportunities, nurses and social care workers are uniquely placed to act as a health coach and to help prevent Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), by supporting healthy lifestyle. The guidelines are therefore looking into how nurses and social care workers could use eHealth services and technologies to boost prevention in healthcare.<\/p>