The nursing in the digital era: development of a software-prototype for the nursing process

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a software-prototype to help the nurses to plan the nursing care, to make nursing interventions and all documentation in a computerized way. The multi-professional team is involved in the development of this software-prototype and constituted by the researcher, a system analyst and a programmer. The methodology is based in the life cycle the prototype. It is following up into two phases: the definition and the development one. The definition phase began with the planning stage, following for the definition and analysis of the requirements for the construction and it culminated with the specification of the software requirements. The development phase translated the group of requirements in a computerized model, structured in 10 modules, regarding the process of nursing care system. The evaluation of this innovative resource in the performance of Nursing Care System will be object of a subsequent study.