Objectives: The Taiwan Triage and Acuity Scale (TTAS), developed for use in EDs, has been shown to be an excellent tool for triaging patients with high predictive performance, with an area under the receiver operating curve (AUROC) of 0.75. TTAS has been widely used in hospitals in Taiwan since 2010, but its utility has not been studied outside of Taiwan.
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December 2006
The research is to establish the nursing information system of fall down dangerous cause estimation, build up the standard working process of fall down precaution, reduce the patients' fall down rate and injury rate. I) Build up a complete information system for standard working process of fall down precaution. II) After nurses intervened the education, there are remarkably positive promote on knowledge, attitude and action.
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December 2006
Information technology is the inevitable product of modern society and computerized medical information provides clinic workers with more timely and instant information. Therefore, computer hardware equipment is a must to promote computerized information system. Yet, there is low satisfaction level toward the arrangement of clinical computer equipment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe research is to establish nursing E-truck, provide immediately information to nurses, patient's bedside-service. Each nursing work, through computer wireless LAN card, optic fiber network in hospital to the mainframe, to open an activated medical treatment work. Nurses can key in the patient's condition or nursing notes after take care of the patient at the patient's unit, reduce repeated copy, produce working efficiency and working satisfaction.
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December 2006
This study aims to develop an electronic nursing and caring system to manage patients' information and provide patients with safe and efficient services. By transmitting data among wireless cards, optical network, and mainframe computer, nursing care will be delivered more systematically and patients' safety centered caring will be delivered more efficiently and effectively. With this system, manual record keeping time was cut down, and relevant nursing and caring information was linked up.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProfessional Commitment is an attitude, and it is the core and spirit of professionalism. In addition to increasing personal stability in the profession, it also enables individuals to reach their professional goals in general. Because nurses usually have more opportunities than other health care professionals to be in contact with patients, patients receive most of their information about health care from nurses.
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