title: Empowering nurses--Improving care with an Integrated Nursing Information System (INIS).
abstract: The nursing informatics project team within the Information Management Services Department of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland is currently developing and implementing an Integrated Nursing Information System (INIS) in accordance with an "Information and Workflow Model" drawn up by the team in 1998. The three components of the INIS will be defined and progress in the hospital to date will be demonstrated. INIS will become part of the overall electronic patient record.
authors.affiliation: Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 7, Ireland. rmurnane@mater.ie
authors.forename: Rosaleen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Murnane
authors.forename: Fridolin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Molony
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mulligan
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meehan
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D018511:Systems Integration