title: Computerized monitoring systems.
abstract: Computerized monitoring systems facilitate the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of multiple vital parameters, which allow for rapid clinical decision making and more timely patient management. However, computerized monitoring systems can only augment, not replace, direct patient observations and care by nursing personnel. To provide the most effective care for patients, nurses must become proficient in the use of the advanced technology of computerized monitoring systems but also retain the humanistic "caring" quality.
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*