The purpose of this study is to provide a basic data by evaluating the problem about nursing information system and identifying the need of improvement of it.
Data were collected from April 6 to 15, 2000 through questionnaires taken by 218 nurses working in a general hospital using nursing information systems.
The two structured questionnaires were used for the collecting the data. The data obtained were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation. t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and Cronbach’s coefficients.
The results are as follows:
1. In the problem of nursing information systems, ’There are no appropriate programs for independent nursing information systems because there are no nurse informatists in the department’ scored highest. Also, 「There is a lack of manual for operation of the nursing information system」, 「There is difficulty getting help when the system is in trouble.」, 「General information about using computers and managing problems ae lacking」, 「Ulsatisfactory matters about the nursing information systems are not improved quickly.」received high scores.
2. In the need for improvement of the nursing information system, 「Nursing education and research」was the highest area of the system.
3. The problems of the nursing information system showed high positive correlation with the need for improvement of the system(p=.00.)
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