Prepared for the web by Rod Ward

There are many factors which challenge personal values, such as changing employers, changing roles and hindsight. Another way of expressing the challenge to personal values, is that change makes you think. Having recently gone through such challenges to my personal value set, I thought it might be pertinent to think about the responsibility for nurse education in relation to patient information management. This paper is the result of my current thinking. Thinking is a major purpose of education. We think all our lives and in education we encourage thinking in order to develop cognitive skills in our students. With our students we explore new concepts, we develop new skills, we add to the breadth of being that is each individual, and in nursing, we enable professional presence for effective and safe care of patients. Upon what do we base our education of those who will be the practitioners of nursing into the next century? Of course, we base our education practices on our own knowledge and experience as nurses and later as teachers. The question must be asked, is our previous life a fitting base for the professional lives of those nurse