An Analysis on Application of Nursing Informatics in Wounds Repair in Tehran: a Survey

Information Technology (IT) has been identified as a key factor in achieving improved patient safety and quality of care. Nurses as one of hospital staffs involve information from assessing the health care needs of patients, to developing care plans, to communicating patient information to other health professionals, to developing reports. Nursing informatics (NI) can help provide effective and safe healthcare. In this paper, we identify and describe broad topics of research trends in NI and application of NI in wound repair including (a) data interoperability such as terminology/standardization and care transition/handoffs, (b) mobile health, (c) clinical informatics research that deals with various clinical information applications such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and decision support systems, (d) human factors such as human computer interaction and communication and patient safety, and (e) big data research.In current year, we created and distributed a special nursing form between ۷۸ nurses occupied in Tehran about current NI trends on wound repair. A total of ۷۳ responses were submitted. This work provides an important view of the research trends and valuable insights on the status of nursing informatics research. Further research is needed to find the role and impact of these trends in health care. From ۷۸ form distributed, the top five reported (n=۷۳, ۹۳/۶%) research areas were as follows: data interoperability (n=۴۳, ۵۵/۱%); mobile health (n=۵۷, ۷۸/۱%); clinical informatics research (n=۴۷, ۶۴/۴%); patient safety (n=۳۲, ۴۸/۸%); and big data research (n=۲۳, ۳۱/۵%).

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Information Technology ، Nursing Informatics ، Clinical informatics research