A nursing information system. The outcome of implementing nursing diagnoses.
The use of nursing diagnosis, as the focus for care planning and as a role expectation for professional nursing practice, has evolved throughout the years into a concept that has permeated all other systems in the Department of Nursing. Systems that were previously mutually exclusive were organized through the use of nursing diagnosis-based care planning and were integrated to improve both nursing efficiency and efficacy. Full computerization of the Nursing Information System Model (Fig. 1) will have the nursing diagnosis-based patient care plan and the medical orders for nursing intervention as the source of all clinical nursing data and will provide the majority of nursing administrative management data.
Department of Nursing, Mercy Hospital, Davenport, Iowa.
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D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D007318:Inservice Training; D007484:Iowa; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D009736:Nursing Process; D009737:Nursing Records; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education; D010380:Peer Review; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care