This study was done to develope a computer pro-;ram for the evaluation of quality of nurisng care. Because the professional nursing care should be Evaluated consistantly, computer program for the measurement of quality of nursing care is necessary f´or the effective and efficient management of nui-;~ing quality. In this study, a computer program f´or gastrointestinal surgery patients was developed ors a module. Visual basic 4.0 was used as a basic >>rogram for the development of this program. and Access 7.0 was used for the data base construction of the program.
The systems of evaluation criteria were hierarc hical. and the titles of the hierarchical criteria were evaluation area-evaluation item-indicator. Each evaluation area contained several items and each evaluation item contained several indicators. The numbers of the evaluation criteria for gastrointestinal surgery patients were I evaluation areas, 32 evaluation items, and 71 indicators. Content validity of the evaluation ciiteria(in this case. 32 evaluation items) was .95. Scoring could be possible with the evaluation items: For the scoring types of this program were two, norm-referenced type(option 1) and criterion-referenced type(option 2), the user can choose the type according to the purpose of theevalua´~ion.
With this computer program. accurate and consistant evaluation of the quality of nursing care could lie expected. Also. by the rapid feedback to nursing care practice. quality of nursing practice could 1>e improved rapidly, and the systems of the evaluation criteria developed in this study could be used for the development of other moduls for various kinds of patient groups. Because this computer program was developed only for the purpose of research, it is necessary to be refined commercially to be used in real nursing situation.
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