<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The clinical decision support system makes electronic health records (EHRs) structured, intelligent, and knowledgeable. The nursing decision support system (NDSS) is based on clinical nursing guidelines and nursing process to provide intelligent suggestions and reminders. The impact on nurses’ work is mainly in shortening the recording time, improving the quality of nursing diagnosis, reducing the incidence of nursing risk events, and so on. However, there is no authoritative standard for the NDSS at home and abroad. This review introduces development and challenges of EHRs and recommends the application of the NDSS in EHRs, namely the nursing assessment decision support system, the nursing diagnostic decision support system, and the nursing care planning decision support system (including nursing intervene), hoping to provide a new thought and method to structure impeccable EHRs.</p></abstract>

The clinical decision support system makes electronic health records (EHRs) structured, intelligent, and knowledgeable. The nursing decision support system (NDSS) is based on clinical nursing guidelines and nursing process to provide intelligent suggestions and reminders. The impact on nurses’ work is mainly in shortening the recording time, improving the quality of nursing diagnosis, reducing the incidence of nursing risk events, and so on. However, there is no authoritative standard for the NDSS at home and abroad. This review introduces development and challenges of EHRs and recommends the application of the NDSS in EHRs, namely the nursing assessment decision support system, the nursing diagnostic decision support system, and the nursing care planning decision support system (including nursing intervene), hoping to provide a new thought and method to structure impeccable EHRs.

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Nursing Department of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital

Frontiers of Nursing

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Nursing decision support system: application in electronic health records

The clinical decision support system makes electronic health records (EHRs) structured, intelligent, and knowledgeable. The nursing decision support system...

Nursing decision support system: application in electronic health records^†

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Oct 02, 2020

Page range: 185 - 190

Received: Oct 22, 2019

Accepted: Nov 21, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0027

Keywords
electronic health records, decision support systems, clinical, nursing process, review

© 2020 Mi-Zhi Wu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Nursing decision support system: application in electronic health records†

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Oct 02, 2020

Page range: 185 - 190

Received: Oct 22, 2019

Accepted: Nov 21, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0027

Keywordselectronic health records, decision support systems, clinical, nursing process, review

© 2020 Mi-Zhi Wu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Nursing decision support system: application in electronic health records^†

Keywords
electronic health records, decision support systems, clinical, nursing process, review