Computer-mediated collaborative visual learning system to generate evidence-based nursing care plans

Abstract

For the nurses to provide quality patient care, the nurses need to generate an accurate and reliable nursing care plan. To prepare a nursing care plan, the nurses need to follow a number of steps starting from the data collection stage and ending with the nursing diagnoses, outcome, and intervention selection stage. Many nurses are responsible for many patients. The patients come and go. The nurses in many critical settings work in the three eight-hour shifts. Therefore, it is essential and necessary for many nurses to share the generation and the use of the nursing care plan, Instead of text-based nursing care plan, we are developing a visual system to represent patient state and the corresponding diagnosis through collaborations amongst the nurses. By using this system, the novice nurses learn from what others do. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.