A hospital is using a computer system that allows all health care providers to use a protocol system to document the care they provide. Which type of system/design will the nurse be using?
a. Clinical decision support system
b. Nursing process design
c. Critical pathway design
d. Computerized provider order entry system
ANS: C
One design model for Nursing Clinical Information Systems (NCIS) is the protocol or critical pathway design. This design facilitates interdisciplinary management of information because all health care providers use evidence-based protocols or critical pathways to document the care they provide. The knowledge base within a CDSS contains rules and logic statements that link information required for clinical decisions in order to generate tailored recommendations for individual patients, which are presented to nurses as alerts, warnings, or other information for consideration. The nursing process design is the most traditional design for an NCIS. This design organizes documentation within well-established formats such as admission and postoperative assessments, problem lists, care plans, discharge planning instructions, and intervention lists or notes. Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems allow health care providers to directly enter orders for patient care into the hospital's information system.
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