Widespread adoption of healthcare information systems has led to large amounts of patient care data with the potential for improvements in the cost and quality of patient care. However, extracting useful information from these large data sets using current systems is a cumbersome process and it is difficult to effectively utilize the data. This paper addresses is the creation of a multidimensio...

OBJECTIVE In order to ensure the successful implementation of a nursing information system (NIS), nurses and nursing students must be adequately trained. In order to do this effectively, it is essential to understand their training needs. This study focuses on the training needs of nursing students in particular through the identification of the usage problems they encounter. Usability testing,...

In recent years, the Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes (LOINC) Database has been expanded to include assessment items of relevance to nursing and in 2002 met the criteria for "recognition" by the American Nurses Association. Assessment measures in LOINC include those related to vital signs, obstetric measurements, clinical assessment scales, assessments from standardized nursing...

INTRODUCTION Health systems and services research by nursing personnel could inform decision-making and nursing care, providing evidence concerning quality of and patient satisfaction. Such studies are rather uncommon in Cuban research institutes, where clinical research predominates. OBJECTIVE Assess the results of a strategy implemented between 2008 and 2011 to develop nursing capacity for ...

In recent years, Decision Support Systems (DSSs) have been developed and used to achieve "meaningful use". One approach to developing DSSs is to translate clinical guidelines into a computer-interpretable format. However, there is no specific guideline modeling approach to translate nursing guidelines to computer-interpretable guidelines. This results in limited use of DSSs in nursing. Unified ...

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one of the advanced nursing care procedures emphasized by nursing organizations around the world is patient or nursing advocacy. in addition to illustrating the professional power of nursing, it helps to provide effective nursing care. the aim of the present study was to explain the concept of patient advocacy from the perspective of iranian clinical nurses. this was a qualitative study that ex...

PURPOSE To report additional mediation findings from a descriptive cross sectional study to examine if nurses' perceptions of the impact of healthcare information technology on their practice mediates the relationship between electronic nursing care reminder use and missed nursing care. DESIGN The study used a descriptive design. The sample (N = 165) was composed of registered nurses working ...

background: learning of clinical skills in the intensive care unit (icu) is important for nursing students. “direct observation of procedural skills (dops)” is a modified objective method in the field of medical sciences, and we conducted this study with the aim of investigating the effect of evaluation using dops method on learning practical skills among nursing students in the icu. materials ...

background it is believed that self-evaluation can empower students; help them to pick higher goals and to try harder to realize these targets. however, the nursing students’ self-evaluation on clinical skills has rarely been studied. objectives to investigate the correlation of nursing internship trainees’ self-evaluation of clinical skills with their teachers’ evaluation. conclusions the stud...