The nursing process consists of five interrelated steps: assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation. In the nursing process, the nurse collects a great deal of data and information. The amount of data and information may exceed the amount the nurse can process efficiently and correctly. Thus, the nurse needs assistance to become proficient in the planning of nursing care, due...

NURSING KNOWLEDGE increases exponentially with the availability and use of big data and science. In an exciting move to empower nurses to utilize information, 70 stakeholders were involved in formulating a 2013 national action plan to capture nursing information for big data research aimed at identifying effective care interventions and improving patient outcomes. As we enter 2015, it is a good...

Recommender systems have been extensively studied to present items such as movies, music, and books that are likely of interest to the user. We propose to use correlations among nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions to create a recommender system for constructing nursing care plans. Nursing care plan recommender systems can provide clinical decision support, nursing education, clinical...

The time immediately following an accreditation visit is ideal to reevaluate and update the plan for ongoing systematic program evaluation. This article demonstrates how use of an evaluation framework, existing nursing program resources, data, and a timeline can be integral to an ongoing program evaluation plan. Guidelines provided by the accrediting body can be the template for the evaluation ...

AIM To explore how the content design of a computerized nursing care plan affects nurses' perceptions of their documentation experience, specifically in making care plans. BACKGROUND Nurses' attitudes towards and experiences of computer use in daily practice have been studied. However, no studies have examined how using a computerized nursing care planning system affects nurses' perceptions o...

background: nursing project management is widely used in different aspects of the society. however, whether the nursing project management can control the infections in the operation room (or) is rarely reported. we evaluated the outcomes of surgical patients after implementing a nursing project management program to provide new scientific ways to manage the or infections. methods: overall, 382...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to examine the Institute of Medicine's recommendations, the National Prevention Council Action Plan, the medical home model, and the nursing standards that drive quality for telephone nursing triage. FINDINGS These guidelines require reconceptualizing nursing roles, a commitment to lifelong learning, continued competence, and transformational leadership ...