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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
World Nursing 2017
July 10-12, 2017
23
rd
World Nursing and Healthcare Conference
July 10-12, 2017 Berlin, Germany
Promotion of using information technology in long-term care industry
Hung-Ru Lin
1
and
Ching-Yuan Huang
2
1
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
2
RUI-YOU Information Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan
T
heinformatizationandautomationoflong-termcare(LTC)facilitieshavenotbeenpopular.Thedevelopmentofa“LTCmanagement
platform” can improve the management performance of facilities and enable nurses to save more time on transcription records
and completing assessment forms, thus, providing more time to devote themselves to the profession of nursing care. The purpose of
this study was to preliminarily investigate the “current status of information introduction, and LTC facility nurse’s satisfaction with
it,” “focuses on the expansion of an information introduction system, as perceived by LTC facility caregivers,” “obstacles encountered
in promotion of informatization of LTC facilities,” and “feasibility of the application of e-learning to educational training of LTC
facilities.” This study enrolled LTC facility nurses, using the information introduction system of Rui You Information Systems, as
the research participants. Sixty-eight nurses completed the interviews. Results showed that the demand for the application of LTC
information system is very high, it can help institution to enhance the quality of residents care, reduce costs, precious manpower
and time of looking for data and related information. However, the researchers also found that nurses expressed that they were not
familiar with the operation on LTC information system. In addition, the content of the form and the actual occurrence of the clinical
situation was different. It is needed to expand the form content. It is intended that this study can help understand the current status
use of the LTC information system of nurses, as well as their satisfaction and needs for modifications, as reference for the subsequent
development and modification of an information system, in order to achieve the objective of conforming to nursing practices and
increasing system accessibility. Thus, rendering the system the biggest, most comprehensible, and widely used helper of nursing
personnel, and provide the results as reference for effectiveness evaluation of LTC facilities.
Biography
Hung-Ru Lin, has completed her PhD from University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a professor and Dean of Academic Affairs at National Taipei University of
Nursing and Health Sciences in Taiwan.
Ching-Yuan Huang, he is the CSO at RUI-YOU Information Co., Ltd., in Taiwan.
Hung-Ru Lin et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-049