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Information and communication technology ict is integral in todays healthcare as a critical piece of support to both track and improve patient and organizational outcomes facilitating nurses informatics competency development through continuing education is paramount to enhance their readiness to practice safely and accurately in . Student nurses and those already in practice should be offered ongoing educational opportunities to enhance a wide spectrum of professional informatics skills the nurses of 2025 will most certainly inhabit a very different practice environment than what exists today and technology will be key in this transformation. Smart bed technology gives nurses a constant monitor in a room that provides them with regular updates and communications on a patients activities it can also help them identify patterns which can lead to a new diagnosis or a different understanding of a condition. Communication technology in the hospital is changing nursing practice electronic clinical observations have been rolled out on a massive scale in hospitals around the world these can take the form of individual patient monitors which record and store all data that was traditionally recorded on paper