introduction: in a comprehensive health approach, emphasis has been more on education and self-care than care itself, and aims to increase patient’s knowledge to give decision making and independence ability to improve quality of lifestyle. these can develop with progress of information technology. the aim of this study was to evaluate hospital information system (his) in meeting the patient dr...

Widespread adoption of healthcare information systems has led to large amounts of patient care data with the potential for improvements in the cost and quality of patient care. However, extracting useful information from these large data sets using current systems is a cumbersome process and it is difficult to effectively utilize the data. This paper addresses is the creation of a multidimensio...

OBJECTIVE In order to ensure the successful implementation of a nursing information system (NIS), nurses and nursing students must be adequately trained. In order to do this effectively, it is essential to understand their training needs. This study focuses on the training needs of nursing students in particular through the identification of the usage problems they encounter. Usability testing,...

background & aim : nurses are exposed to the changing demands in technology as they execute their patient-related duties in the workplace. integration of information technology (it) in healthcare systems improves the quality of care provided. nursing and midwifery students with prior exposure to computers tend to have a positive influence of it. this study was carried out to determine the attit...

recording nursing reports is considered as a quality assurance tool for patients and nurses. nowadays, the presence of electronic health record systems is an indicator of development. studies on advantages and disadvantages of the electronic and manual recording methods have shown different results. in this study, electronic and manual recording of nursing reports were compared from the perspec...

effective clinical care requires nurses to obtain the capability of putting the research findings into application. during the recent years, evidence-based nursing (ebn) has proved itself as a way for health care and therapy based on new findings being used in clinical care practices. however, studies show that nurses have problem in evidence-based practice application the most of which reveals...

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...