title: Monitor-based software application programs meet the need for fast, accurate information at the bedside.
abstract: This article describes how the availability of applications programs on bedside and central station monitors increases nursing efficiency, enhances patient safety, and reduces hospital costs. Included are descriptions of some specific applications programs that comprise the Space-Labs Clinical Library: continuing education credit programs, drug therapy programs and a pacemaker information retrieval database. The benefits of these monitor-based programs--for both nurses and hospitals--are described.
authors.affiliation: Valerie Smith Marketing Services, Seattle, WA 98125.
authors.forename: V J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000592:standards*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D012986:Software Validation