Integrating an Innovative, Cost-Effective Electronic Documentation System for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Nursing Care and Documentation Assistant with an Electronic Nursing Management System in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Background: All nursing cares require decision-making, and the ability to make the best decisions impact upon the quality of nursing care. Moreover, authenticity and accuracy of the best cares may be questioned if not recorded and reported properly and in a standard manner. We aimed to design and implement an electronic nursing managementsystem and then evaluate satisfaction of nurses with the ...

Collaborative Education: an innovative method of teaching undergraduate nursing students

Undergraduate nursing students integrating health literacy in clinical settings.

BACKGROUND Analyzing students' performance and self-criticism of their roles in promoting health literacy can inform nursing education in a social environment that expects new graduates to be health promoters. OBJECTIVES The pilot study reported here aimed to a) analyze students' understanding of and sensitivity to issues of health literacy, (b) identify students' perceptions of structural, o...

Does the introduction of an electronic nursing documentation system in a nursing home reduce time on documentation for the nursing staff?

PURPOSE To determine whether the introduction of an electronic nursing documentation system in a nursing home reduces the proportion of time nursing staff spend on documentation, and to use this information in evaluating the usefulness of the system in improving the work of nursing staff. METHODS An observational work sampling study was conducted in 2009 and 2010, 2 months before, and 3, 6 an...

Electronic Health Records Documentation in Nursing

A descriptive study of 100 nursing personnel at a large Magnet hospital in Southwest Florida was conducted to assess their needs, preferences, and perceptions associated with Electronic Health Record (EHR) documentation methods. Nurses' attitudes about the use of EHRs and their perceived effects on patient care were assessed. The five-item, Likert-type attitude scale explained 54% of the varian...