Health Care : Current Reviews

Identifying nurses interventions in behavioral, physiological, safety, and family domains: The use of electronic standardized nursing terminology for oncology care in an acute setting

4^th Asia-Pacific Global Summit & Expo on Healthcare

July 18-20, 2016 Brisbane, Australia

Hui-Chen Tseng

Chang Gung University, Taiwan

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Health Care Current Reviews

Abstract:

Introduction: Traditionally, nursing managers in clinics monitor quality indicators from paper report. It suggests that nurses obtain a clear picture of how nurse�??s interventions via viewing the frequencies of nursing problems, nursing interventions, and nursing-sensitive patients outcomes and their 1 to 5 outcome scores linked to nurses activities in the Electronic Standardized Nursing Terminology (ESNT). Purpose: The study aimed to identifying nurses activities in classified domains and rationale the activities for a better understanding of patient outcomes documented by nurses using ESNT for oncology care. Methods: In this descriptive retrospective study, we included patients with cancer admitted in 4 oncology units in a tertiary hospital over 7 months. Demographics, diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes using a 5-point Likert scale were retrieved from medical records and the nursing documentation system. Results: We found 100 nursing interventions documented in the study sample (2,237). Four domains are identified: Behavioral, physiological, safety, and family. Pain management, in the domain of physiologic is the most common intervention in the study. In the top ten interventions, there are 4 interventions in the domain of safety and 5 in the domain of physiologic. Conclusions: Findings suggest problems, interventions, outcomes and change scores recognized by nurses for patient care settings with the use of ESNT which provides a valuable evaluation of patient care for nurses.

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Email: huichentseng@gmail.com