title: Developing a Web-Based Nursing Practice and Research Information Management System: A Pilot Study.
abstract: Many hospital information systems have been developed and implemented to collect clinical data from the bedside and have used the information to improve patient care. Because of a growing awareness that the use of clinical information improves quality of care and patient outcomes, measuring tools (electronic and paper based) have been developed, but most of them require multiple steps of data collection and analysis. This necessitated the development of a Web-based Nursing Practice and Research Information Management System that processes clinical nursing data to measure nurses' delivery of care and its impact on patient outcomes and provides useful information to clinicians, administrators, researchers, and policy makers at the point of care. This pilot study developed a computer algorithm based on a falls prevention protocol and programmed the prototype Web-based Nursing Practice and Research Information Management System. It successfully measured performance of nursing care delivered and its impact on patient outcomes successfully using clinical nursing data from the study site. Although Nursing Practice and Research Information Management System was tested with small data sets, results of study revealed that it has the potential to measure nurses' delivery of care and its impact on patient outcomes, while pinpointing components of nursing process in need of improvement.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Dr Choi); and Department of Nursing Education and Research (Drs Choi and Hagle), and Vets' Club Program, Department of Veterans Affairs (Ms Lapp), Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Jeeyae
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Cathi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lapp
authors.forename: Mary E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Hagle
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D063025:Health Information Management; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010865:Pilot Projects; D058996:Quality Improvement