Application of entire information management in nursing of patients with high-risk pressure ulcers

Abstract

Objective To explore the application of entire information management system in nursing of patients with high-risk pressure ulcers and to evaluate its influence on the high risk of pressure ulcers prevention management.Methods Established core group of pressure ulcers management to provide professional guidance to high-risk pressure ulcers patients nursing in whole hospital, structured information management module, improved high-risk pressure ulcers report, added statistical form for it, implemented intelligent record as well as automatic statistics, improved and implemented nursing management work flow for high risk pressure ulcers patients, strengthen supervise to the practical to pressure ulcers prevention, and dynamically managed the whole process from reporting to lapsing of high risk patients by information system.Results After the implementation of entire information management system, pressure ulcers incidence of high risk patients in hospital was significantly decreased compared with that of before（18.98%vs 32.64%;χ2 =10.032,P〈0.01）.The report accuracy of pressure ulcers was improved than that before （98.15% vs 91.71%;χ2 =9.084,P〈0.01）.The time for nursing administration department making statistics for pressure ulcers case quarterly was decreased from 6 hours to 20 minutes.Conclusions Adopting the entire information management system of pressure ulcers can decrease the pressure ulcers morbidity of high risk patients, increase the accuracy of report for high-risk pressure ulcer, improve work efficiency of statistical analysis to high-risk pressure ulcers, and improve the work for prevention and control of pressure ulcers. Key words: Information systems; Nursing management research; Pressure ulcers; High risk