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.
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Department of Nursing, Mercy Hospital, Davenport, Iowa.
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