Abstract: Nurses work closely with doctors and other medical professionals to manage and implement healthcare plans for patients. In today's medical facilities, nurses must have a good grasp of how computers are used in the nursing profession. In most instances, medical staff no longer need to decode doctors orders and patient needs that were written on a bedside medical chart. Electronic health records help doctors and nurses communicate more efficiently by eliminating most misinterpretations of written and verbal orders. Using computers, smartphones and tablets, nurses can create and manage electronic health records and update them, as needed.
Objective: To assess the knowledge regarding computers among staff nurses working in Narayana medical college hospital, Nellore.
Methods: The staff nurses in this cross-sectional study working in Narayana medical college and hospital, Nellore. A total of 100 staff nurses were randomly selected. Trained investigators administered a standard questionnaire to each participant during a face to face interview and carried out data collection procedure.
Results: The results show that, out of 100 staff nurses with regard to the level of the knowledge on computers26% of nurses having ‘C’ grade knowledge, 70% of nurses having ‘B’ grade knowledge, and 4% of nurses having ‘A’ grade knowledge.
Conclusion: Knowledge on Computers among staff nurses was found to be very low. Increasing accessibility to computers and delivering training on the use of computers for staff nurses will increases the knowledge of computers. This will facilitate the rate of diffusion of the technology to the health sector. Hence, programs targeted at enhancing knowledge and skill of computer applications and increasing access to computer should be designed. The association between computer knowledge/skill and health care delivery competence should be studied.
Keywords: Knowledge, Computers, Tele Health, Staff Nurses.
Title: KNOWLEDGE REGARDING COMPUTERS AMONG STAFF NURSES
Author: P. Savithri, Katari Kantha, Arumugam Indira, Kavya Varghese
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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