Nursing Information Systems

Pnm-25: Nursing Information Systems: Issues and Challenges

Background: The nursing process is often considered as core of the nursing care delivery and guides the care documentation. Currently, with rapid advance in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) this process can be supported electronically. Applying information systems improves care health processes. Nursing Information Systems (NISs) deal with nursing process. Materials and Methods: E...

Nursing Information Systems

Computer technology is a reality of our modern world. It gives us a tool which can be used to help us cope with the complexity and efficiency which is often required in many areas of work. It is an erroneous assumption that it robs a situation of its human qualities. No one would deny that the use of a word processor denies the possibility of highly creative writing being produced or that compu...

Classroom Careplanning: Preparing for Nursing Information Systems

Common Nursing Terminology for Clinical Information Systems

UNLABELLED The lack of professional agreement upon chosen terminology in nursing detracts from the role of Clinical Information Systems (CIS) as central repositories of patient health records. The purposes of this paper are: (1) Identification of common terminology for clinical nursing information in CHS according to the following stages: patient history of health and illnesses; nursing assessm...

Information Quality in Nursing Information Systems – Experiences and Problems

Information Quality (IQ) is a problem associated with severe financial and outcome related impacts in the health care sector, and with growing acceptance of evidence-based decision support systems in the industry, it is becoming a key area of both strategic and operational management in the area. However, Nursing Information Systems (NIS) are often under-used and inhibited by poor IQ. This case...