Review article
MANAGEMENT OF HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS USING SIMPLE INFORMATICS PROGRAM
BOSILJKA DEVČIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0001-9011-9483
; Rijeka University Hospital Center, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Rijeka, Croatia
ITA JELIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0003-0594-6113
; Rijeka University Hospital Center, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Rijeka, Croatia
SANJIN RAČKI
; Rijeka University Hospital Center, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Providing health care and good hospital organization are always based on a well-educated and competent nurse. Nurses can significantly affect the result of overall treatment, which has a professional and financial effect. Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing, computer and information science applied to nursing management as well as transfer of data, information and knowledge in nursing practice. This facilitates nurses’ integration in supporting decision-making and implementation of health care. Informatics emphasizes overall nursing practice and nurses should have basic computer skills. In this article, we show how the use of simple tables, designed by using Microsoft Office programs (Word and Excel), has been employed for over a decade in facilitating the organization of daily work, monitoring of patients and their prescribed therapy. A trained nurse-manager will be able to evaluate patient care and to organize health care administration using all human and technical resources. The vision of the national health care system is still not achievable due to the lack of infrastructure. Nurses and computer documentation of patients with chronic kidney disease can significantly improve the quality of patient care and treatment.
Keywords
nursing informatics; chronic kidney disease
Hrčak ID:
117957
URI
Publication date:
19.3.2014.
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