Murray P J
School of Health & Social Welfare, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997;46:442-7.
Several modes of electronic discourse (e-discourse) are currently used by nurses, and have potential for meeting their formal and informal continuing professional education (CPE) needs. After defining e-discourse in relation to computer-mediated communications (CMC), the author outlines some recent examples of it use. There follows discussion of the argument that, through e-discourse, nurses can reflect on their practice, incorporating and developing theory and meet their CPE needs. Some important constraining issues are presented, and the author suggests that, for many nurses, e-discourse will have more educational application than multimedia in the foreseeable future. The paper is set within the context of UK requirements, but the issues raised are pertinent to nurses around the world, particularly where CPE is incorporated within the re-registration cycle.
护士们目前使用多种电子话语（电子通信）模式，这些模式有潜力满足他们正式和非正式的持续专业教育（CPE）需求。在定义了与计算机介导通信（CMC）相关的电子话语后，作者概述了一些其近期使用的例子。接下来讨论了这样一种观点，即通过电子话语，护士们可以反思自己的实践，融合并发展理论，以及满足他们的CPE需求。文中提出了一些重要的制约性问题，作者认为，在可预见的未来，对许多护士而言，电子话语在教育方面的应用将比多媒体更多。本文是在英国的要求背景下撰写的，但提出的问题与世界各地的护士相关，特别是在重新注册周期中纳入了CPE的地方。
