Advantages of Information Systems in Health Services
Journal Title: Choregia - Year 2009, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Nursing Information System (NIS) has been defined as “a part of a health care information system that deals with nursing aspects, particularly the maintenance of the nursing recordâ€Â. Nursing Uses of Information Systems in order to assess patient acuity and condition, prepare a plan of care or critical pathway, specify interventions, document care, track outcomes and control quality in the given patient care. Patient care processes, Communication, research, education and ward management can be easily delivered using NIS. There is a specific procedure that should be followed when implementing NISs. The electronic databases CINAHL and Medline were used to identify studies for review. Studies were selected from a search that included the terms ‘nursing information systems’, ‘clinical information systems’, ‘hospital information systems’, ‘documentation’, ‘nursing records’, combined with ‘electronic’ and ‘computer’. Journal articles, research papers, and systematic reviews from 1980 to 2007 were included. In Greek Hospitals there have been made many trials and efforts in order to develop electronic nursing documentation with little results. There are many difficulties and some of them are different levels of nursing education, low nurse to patient ratios, not involvement of nurses in the phases of their implementation, resistance in change. Today’s nursing practise in Greece needs to follow others counties paradigm and phase its controversies and problems in order to follow the worldwide changes in delivering nursing care.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria Malliarou| Technological Institution of Larisa, Nursing Department, Sofia Zyga| Nursing Department, University of Peloponnese
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- EP ID EP12557
- DOI http:dx.doi.org/10.4127/ch.2009.0040
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