BACKGROUND: South Africa is currently focusing strongly on human resource development. The purpose of this study was to describe and compare the quality of nursing service and care in three health districts in the KwaZulu Natal Province. To identify deficiencies which could be addressed by education and training, it might be useful to measure the quality of care given by nurses. METHODS: From M...

This article reports on the views of Australian nurses as to their use of computers in the workplace. Data were collected by questionnaires mailed to 10,000 members of the 150,000-member Australian Nursing Federation, which represents 60% of the Australian nursing workforce. The response rate was 43.3%. Computer use was 20% by assistants in nursing, rising to 75% by enrolled nurses and to more ...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical companies use a variety of abbreviations to denote short- and long-acting medications. Errors involving the administration of these medications are frequently reported. OBJECTIVES To evaluate comprehension rates for abbreviations used to denote short- and long-acting medications and to evaluate whether changes to medication labels could reduce potential errors in the...

BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary care is a key enabler in the provision of high quality care for cancer patients. Despite compelling evidence supporting their benefit to patients and for providers, multidisciplinary cancer conferences (MCC) are not universally occurring. Team composition of MCC reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the body. Lack of nursing input can have a negative impact on te...

BACKGROUND In order to improve the efficiency of patient care, we developed an electronic medical record system, named the Comprehensive Radiation Oncology Management System (C-ROMS). C-ROMS was used together with a commercial record-and-verify system, LANTIS (Siemens Medical Systems Inc., Concord, CA, USA). The impact of the C-ROMS/LANTIS system on the staff workload in the Radiation Oncology ...

Background: Patient record prescribed further state of health the patient and determines diagnosis diseases by exerting history. The study was conducted to assess practice management among nurses in a selected government hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Methods: A descriptive type cross-sectional done 214 respondents following convenient methods sampling from Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hosp...

Advance care planning implementation occurs across the world using different legislative frameworks, different language to describe both the process and the outcome, and different models to develop these plans. Many countries are in the process of developing personally controlled electronic health records. Including advance care plans as part of this record is proposed in Australia. The Electro...

The provision of safe and effective interdisciplinary care requires making the unique and interdependent aspects of disciplinary care visible and understandable. Ideally, the electronic health record (EHR) should capture both disciplinary and interdisciplinary care. This paper reports on a "real time" pilot of a technology supported method of documenting, communicating, and tracking the nursing...

Eight questionnaires, which were developed from Hsu (1989, 1995) quality monitoring tool (A and B questionnaires for four types of patients), were randomly selected to monitor orthopaedic nursing care quality in preand post-test. Eight questionnaires that included 50 criteria in each questionnaire were developed to assure the quality of nursing care. Data collection methods for the quality tool...

While nursing documentation in electronic medical record (EMR) flowsheets may represent the largest investment of clinician time with information systems, organizations lack tools to visualize and repurpose this data for research and quality improvement. Incorporating flowsheet documentation into a clinical data repository and methods to reduce the flowsheet ontology's redundancy are described....