| The principal objective of this work was the development of a fully-integrated PDA-Based application to manage hospital documentation required by nurses at the point of care. The use of the PDA-Based nursing documentation application has demonstrated to be an important and practical advantage for the nurses. It will allow nurses to access in real-time the updated information on the patients' records at the point of care. The utilization of this technology reduces the time nurses need to record the patients' conditions, and will produce a substantial improvement in their routine tasks including medical error-reduction and time-saving. The PDA-Based nursing documentation application must be considered as an important tool for professional nurses and can be easily implemented in hospitals in Puerto Rico. It can also be a useful test bed for conducting research studies in medical and nursing informatics. |
