In the complexity and diversity of modern society, ;here is an urgent need for an information syst em which can systematically collect, manage and analyze data.
Especially in the discipline of nursing, a nursing informarion system is necessary to maximize nu rsing resources and improve nursing care in the present system which is faced with increases in cli ent needs and multiple changes in hospital environments.
This research was done to provide a basis for the development of an integrative nursing informati on system for the future, by designing dababases items which were extracted from an analysis of the ward nursing information system on general wa rds excluding the OPD, ICU, OR and CSR with fu nctions using a different system from the wards, and the design of output screen used the database items.
The ward nursing information system was analy sed through analysis of nursing practice related to recordings, such as the worksheet, kardex, and other nursing practice recordings, on 25 wards. The development of the database was the part of the construction of hospital information system and used the database development life cycle which is related to the system development life cycle.
The database development steps included selecti on of database management system and design of a physical database following the principles of the order communication system which is been develo ping at Y University Hospital.
Conceptual database and Logical database were designed using the base of 25 data items and fiel ds derived from analysing the worksheet, the dat a items and fields derived from the kardex and of her nursing practice recording, from these 19 data base tables were framed through transforming the relational database.
Through this process, four types of output mate rial for nursing practice recording which nurses c an carry and use during their nursing practice we re produced.
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