Documenting nursing practice by using ICNP on the Web.
This paper presents the design and implementation of an internet based nursing care planning system which helps nursing professionals and students to study ICNP beta 2 version and to create nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes by selecting relevant terms from ICNP. This advanced web-based ICNP browser enables the authentication of the user, and the creation of a type of nursing care plan through the use of ICNP. It provides different ways for creating nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes, by selecting relevant ICNP terms through the tree-structure view, index and search components of the tool. The created diagnoses, interventions and outcomes are stored to a secured database. The system provides to the user the facility to build and manage nursing care plans by using both the English and the translated Greek ICNP versions. The first results of the implementation of this internet based nursing care planning system are presented.
Liaskos
Joseph
J
Health Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. iliaskos@nurs.uoa.gr
Mantas
John
J
D003628:Database Management Systems; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D009732:Nursing Care; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000145:classification*; D014584:User-Computer Interface