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The Columbia University School of Nursing uses Sybase’s Onebridge iAnywhere because it not a stand alone application and it supports advanced practice nursing. They wanted to have a model by which they had an architecture that would allow them to synchronize students data and be able to aggregate them over time.
Weve been excited about the project from the very beginning and the documentation alone has allowed us to really look at the impact that our students are making in the lives of the persons that they serve. We see the type of teaching, counseling, and the type of referrals that they are doing for these types of patients. It is really letting us see the impact that our students are having in these people’s lives. If we had used an application that was designed specifically for physicians rather than nurse practitioners, we wouldnt be able to capture this teaching in counseling element which is so central to advanced practice nursing care. When we show people our application and professional presentations, so many people ask to buy the software. I always say – it’s not a product, it’s a way of life. What I mean by that is – for our projects such as ours to be successful it needs support at multiple levels. The organization has to believe in the power of these tools to be able to say – yes, this is going to be a part of our organizational strategy. Our students are going to graduate with informatics competencies. Theyre going to be required to use this tool as part of their clinical education at the Columbia University School of Nursing.
One of the reasons we went the particular route we did in terms of working with Onebridge now iAnywhere was many of the applications we looked at were stand alone applications. One of the reasons it was very important for us to build was not only so we had an application that supported advanced practice nursing but we wanted to have a model by which we had an architecture that would allow us to synchronize the students data and to be able to aggregate them over time. Onebridge offered us that particular solution. We know in other types of applications that were out there, people were nicely entering their data into a standalone device that they could look at over time and was useful to them in keeping track of that data. But from our perspective since we really came from the purpose of wanting to improve clinical decision making over time and wanting to allow the students not only to critically examine their own practice but to have the faculty be able to monitor an individual students practices or practices of a group of students, it was very important to us that we had an architecture that supported the aggregation.
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