COMPUTERIZED NURSING CARE PLANS FOR LONG TERM CARE (AUTOMATION, PATIENT).
Contributors: Seattle University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Education, Sciences.
Description: This project describes the development of computerized nursing care plans for the older adult. It has the dual purpose of complete, scientifically sound planning and the education of those who care for the elderly. The care planning system was built on the nursing diagnoses developed by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Classification system with some additions and modifications necessary to adapt the diagnoses to the needs of the older adult in and out of the nursing home.

For each nursing diagnosis, measurable goals and nursing orders were also developed so that completely individualized plans are possible. The system is supported by a customized database that can be easily updated at anytime. It consists of two parts which must be used together in a microcomputer with a double disk drive. One is the data bank, called the Care Plan Prototype. The other portion, the Nursing Care Plan is the tool for individual planning and rapid retrieval of finished plans.

Field trials were conducted with primary care and supervisory nurses in a large nursing home. Most nurses learned to operate the program in approximately thirty minutes. Those with former experience with computers and those with typing skills had a slight advantage but this was not significant.

The computerized care planning system was designed as an inductive educational tool. It can be enhanced by a support program in continuing education.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-10, Section: A, page: 2987.

Thesis (ED.D.)--SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0551.